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cole lewis
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interdisciplinary artist, educator, mom—not necessarily in that order.
Excited to share a beta test of 2021 at the Festival of Live Digital Art with support from the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen's University.

Would love to see you there and learn from your feedback. Get your tickets now at folda.ca!
May 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Laurence Olivier's only advertising campaign was for the same type of camera used by Andy Warhol. A fun little read.
Polaroid's SX-70: The Art and Science of the Nearly Impossible
What makes a gadget great? You might argue that it's determined at least in part by how many lives the product in question touches. Back in 2005, when I helped choose a list of the fifty greatest gadg...
technologizer.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
beauty in shadows.
Meanwhile beauty. I love how everything, no matter how small or ethereal casts a shadow, the shadow of a flower is just as shadowy as the shadow of a gun, and if you love light then you should love shadows.
March 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Reposted by cole lewis
“Let us be clear: Mahmoud has been abducted and detained for his political speech.” —Nadia Abu El-Haj
‘Mahmoud Is Not Safe’ | Nadia Abu El-Haj
Mahmoud Khalil has been a public face of the pro-Palestine student movement at Columbia University and Barnard College since last spring. I have known him
buff.ly
March 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"Wars begin with words, and we have to take words seriously, at the time when they matter most, which is now. When we see the truth of where this is all meant to go, we can prevent it: by calling out the big liars and telling the small truths." —Timothy Snyder
Blame Canada
Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory
snyder.substack.com
March 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"What makes America a good country, is America engaging in Diplomacy. That's what President Trump is doing." 

JD Vance redefines diplomacy: gaslighting included.
FULL EXCHANGE: Zelenskyy and Trump's heated argument at the White House
YouTube video by CBC News
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February 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"Transformation, dissent, and revolution are impossible without collective imagining. And democracy requires precisely this: a form of collective assembly in impossible time and space." Judith Butler
Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities
Many young people tell me that they fear there is no future. When they ask about the future, they are also asking: what is still imaginable or for what may we still hope? To say there is no future,…
lithub.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Reposted by cole lewis
This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.

It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
IT IS A COUP
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM