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The year: 2012The place: FacebookThe subject: MadonnaOnce again I find myself getting up on a virtual soapbox and passionately engaging with people I have never met. Vagner + Madonna = cliché, I know I know... sprinkle a dash of drama and the set up is complete.The situation started yesterday, when

After an unplanned absence from this blog, I feel compelled to write a new entry this morning, in view of the eminent Anthony Weiner resignation scheduled to take place today (scandal as media event, or media as scandal event?).Consider the two images below (thanks to TMZ):My question to you is the

Sometimes I think that teaching is much like therapy, at least the kind of therapy I've been in. The mindless and aimless stream of consciousness at times leads one to the heart of the matter. In the classroom I aim to create an environment where, sitting together and facing one another, we all talk

This much-waited entry is a continuation of the previous one with similar title. These locations were visited in different days, and the order below does not follow the chronological visits, though the last one presented here is where my visit ended. If interested in more specific information, such

As much as I roll my eyes (sometimes at myself) when someone brings up Facebook-related topics for face-to-face conversations, I have to be honest and say that many an exchange there have inspired me. This entry is one of those.Earlier today an artist friend posted on her so-called Wall a link to an

It's always amazed me that in a country where even animals have Facebook pages, the country where social networking and web 2.0 (arguably) arose (with Gore or otherwise), that most words relating to "social" are seen by the majority as a pejorative term, much like Feminism.Recently I read an article

There's more to look at. To view any one of the images below, please click on it.One of the most interesting installation pieces I saw, of many that depict a room, or living space (most will be featured on another post), was the one created by Anna Maria Maiolino (Italy, 1942). Radicated in Brazil s