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soccer playerUmberto Boccioni's <a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80009">Dynamism of a Soccer Player</a>, 1913 (MOMA). 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So there's that. 2019-08-22T15:11:53+00:00monthlyhttps://statelegitimacy.com/2018/10/28/two-theories-of-art/https://statelegitimacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/deleuze-heidegger.pngDeleuze - HeideggerGilles Deleuze and Martin Heidegger. One thinks art a great act of resistance, the other an act of destruction. They can't both be right. Right?2019-08-22T15:11:07+00:00monthlyhttps://statelegitimacy.com/2019/01/27/ai-and-las-meninas/2019-08-22T15:10:19+00:00monthlyhttps://statelegitimacy.com/2018/06/03/the-genealogical-method-for-independent-research/https://statelegitimacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cheese-and-wine.jpgCheese and WineWho actually decides what a wine or a cheese is called? Where do they acquire their authority? 2019-05-05T09:09:21+00:00monthlyhttps://statelegitimacy.com/2018/10/14/on-walls-and-dominion/https://statelegitimacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/border-wall.jpgBorder wall“In Bloom” - <a href="https://twitter.com/zabouartist">Zabou</a> - 4x6m - Shtula, Israel - 2018; and <a href="https://www.artists4israel.org/">Artists for Israel</a>.2019-05-05T09:06:41+00:00monthlyhttps://statelegitimacy.com/2018/10/22/ai-reshaping-reality/https://statelegitimacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/tedx-logo.jpgTEDx-Logo2019-05-05T09:06:29+00:00monthlyhttps://statelegitimacy.com/2019/04/14/world-religions-and-ai/2019-05-05T09:03:55+00:00monthlyhttps://statelegitimacy.com/2019/04/21/van-gogh-tate-britain/2019-06-26T06:02:57+00:00monthlyhttps://statelegitimacy.com/magazine-front-page/2019-04-26T15:53:02+00:00weekly0.6https://statelegitimacy.com/front-page/2019-04-26T15:50:20+00:00weekly0.6https://statelegitimacy.com/2017/10/08/bewilderment-politics-technology-and-ecology-in-a-world-that-stopped-making-sense/https://statelegitimacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/moon_and_earth_lroearthrise_frame_0.jpgmoon_and_earth_lroearthrise_frame_0https://statelegitimacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/moon-surface.jpgmoon surfaceThe <a href="http://neverworld.net/lunar/images/lo2_h162_3a.jpg">lunar surface</a>, photographed in 1966.2020-08-06T13:42:01+00:00monthlyhttps://statelegitimacy.com/2017/12/24/everest-the-sublime-ultimate-object-of-identity/https://statelegitimacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/mount-everest-peekvideo0616.jpgMount-Everest-PEEKVIDEO0616https://statelegitimacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/snow-storm.jpgSnow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, by J. 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Photo from Sunita Hazra, via the New York Times.2019-04-22T13:56:03+00:00monthlyhttps://statelegitimacy.com/2018/02/18/postcolonial-guilt-revisionism-and-the-idea-of-progress/https://statelegitimacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/reg.jpgreghttps://statelegitimacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/screen-shot-2018-02-18-at-23-03-54.pngScreen Shot 2018-02-18 at 23.03.54Reg, the leader of the People's Front of Judea, implores his party: "What have the Romans ever done for us?" - from Monty Python's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/">Life of Brian</a>, 1979.2019-04-22T13:55:32+00:00monthlyhttps://statelegitimacy.com/2018/05/20/reflections-on-blackwater-technological-theologies-autistic-robots-and-chivalric-order/https://statelegitimacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/order-now.pngorder-nowOrder is something we take for granted. 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