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Unlocked | The Redescribers w/ political scientist Kevin Munger (NM57)

New Models

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Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, Stafford Beer, and Stafford Beer

Willem Flusse was a philosopher and scholar of communications theory. His writing provided the media theoretical context through which art by Barbara Kruger, Richard Prince, Ashley Bicortin, and Andy Warhol could be understood. From 1986 to his untimely death in 1991 he published a few pieces of gear in Artform under the series title Curies Children as in Marie Curie. The following is a passage from his 1990 column on bridge building called Pontifices Popes.

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