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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · May 15

Ursula K. Le Guin: “The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.”

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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 14h

Also, why are all the Zwirner shows soooo Halloween-y?

Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 14h

Managed to see many NYC gallery shows this week and did not take any photos! But here are my top 3:
1. @naylandblake.bsky.social @ Matthew Marks
2. Reggie Uluru @ D’Lan Contemporary
3. “Surreal America” @ Michael Rosenfeld

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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 3d

especially when the book review brings up capitalism a million times.

Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 3d

Editors, make note: we don't want to finish reading a review of a book only to find an advertisement for the same book on the next page!!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d

I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 6d

JOB! The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is hiring an arts reporter:
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Find your next adventure

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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 8d

Amazing town. Great restaurants.

Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 8d

Will you join us on 10/15 @versobooks.bsky.social? Hope so!

"The War of Art" | Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Eva Díaz, and Walter Benn Mi

Join Verso Books for a panel on Lauren O'Neill-Butler's latest book The War of Art . She will be joined in conversation by Eva Diaz and Walter Benn Michaels. Due to limited space an RSVP will be requi...

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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 11d

“When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money…”

Loved this, and the entire paragraph that quote is taken from. @nplusonemag.com

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 12d

And then this one this morning at Rockaway, which we rescued from the waves!

Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 12d

I’m having a monarch weekend. There was this one yesterday in my community garden plot.

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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 16d

Tonight in Providence!

Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · Sep 2

9/24, 7pm: RIFF RAFF bookstore in Providence!

Lauren O'Neill-Butler reading from THE WAR OF ART, in conversation with E.C. Feiss

How artists have changed America through direct action. Artists in America have ...

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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 18d

Tomorrow!

Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · Sep 2

9/23, 7pm: Brookline Booksmith in Boston!

Lauren O'Neill-Butler: The War of Art

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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 22d

As usual Robin D.G. Kelly is spot on.

Where Are the Intellectuals? - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

We’re with the cultural historian Robin D.G. Kelly at UCLA, who has the nerve to ask: where have our thinkers gone in Trump time? Not the experts or the influencers, but the grander minds who ...

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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 28d

Wordpress is fine for newsletters, right? Anything I should know?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 9

The names of most of these people are publicly identified and someone will leak everyone who attends.

Can a graphic designer create a downloadable poster with all of the names and faces of these people under the title "BILLIONAIRES AGAINST NYC?"

The posters can be put up across the city.

Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · Sep 9

“While billionaires continue to panic & scheme behind closed doors, our campaign is mobilizing tens of thousands of New Yorkers to get involved in the democratic process & rally around an agenda to make this city affordable,” Dora Pekec, a spokeswoman for Mamdani
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Wealthy N.Y. Developers Call Meeting to Plot Mamdani’s Defeat

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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yes same.

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · Sep 1

📣 This only happens once a year! 📣 The Yale Review is now open for general submissions through September 30. Send us your poems, stories, essays, and translations.

For full guidelines and to submit: yalereview.org/about/submis...

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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excited to check out "One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests" by D.W. Gibson after reading E. Tammy Kim's review in @nybooks.com.

"As I read the book today, I’m more struck by the broad appeal, and hijacked potential, of the movement."