I’m not sure when I first felt that joy, but I know when I named it for what it was: one night lying on a sleeping pad beneath a thin...
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OWS Reads
Our founding editor, Jeff Sharlet, has two new articles out on the Occupy Movement: at Bookforum and at Rolling Stone. Here's an excerpt from the former:
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Should astrophysicist Martin Rees have accepted the Templeton Prize he was awarded last week? || This is what blasphemy looks like: A group of French Catholics has defaced Serrano's Piss Christ. || Nickelodeon premiered a new children's TV show on Sunday, "Freedom to believe...or Not." || The death of God is...
Making Torture Beautiful
Making Torture Beautiful 11 June 2005 by Jeff Sharlet In 1989, Andres Serrano dunked a crucifix in a vat of urine and took a photograph of it and called it “Piss Christ.” It was beautiful. Lush, and also far from blasphemous; indeed, it seemed squarely in the sturdiest tradition of artistic reverence for the sacrifice Christ...
