Reading Quotes
"In a single maneuver, Haacke had displayed the political economy that lurked just behind the walls of the museum."
The art world is very shallow in the sense that people don't necessarily buy art because they like it, not at the highest level that is, they buy it because it's valuable. On a lower level, people like us will buy a picture or a piece that we enjoy looking at, but there's more nefarious purposes that the art world offers than simply flaunting money and pompous. It's known that some people will hire private estimators as a means of concealing finances to avoid tax. The modern art world is absolutely a machine, not fuelled by the love of art, but the love of money, power, and status.
"Haha is using the technology to visually broadcast messages with topical interest submitted by residents of a given city."
Any time you see an advertisement, there's such a high chance of it potentially being paid for by a big company trying to sell you something or somehow make a profit on whatever general interest you may have. These messages come from real people who live in that city, just sharing information, or non-information, just whatever they'd like to share with their fellow city-dwellers. In the same string of seeing yourself on the big screen in Times Square, people like to feel like they're part of something, people enjoy knowing other people will be exposed to their existence, even if it's in the form of "This is my second home" outside of a Holiday Inn. There's a connection regained by this simple ability to share thoughts so casually, taking no longer than the time it takes for a taxi to drive past you.
Research and Investigative ideas
There's plenty of blog posts and short lists of women within criminology, but I'm struggling to find sources dedicated specifically to devoting time to recognise unconventional women in criminology, women who use their fame and status, gained from something else, in such a way that criminology is changed by them. Kim Kardashian is a very recent, high-profile example which has sparked quite a few articles about the bizarre reality that we'll have the name of a women predominantly famous for her sex-tape on US criminal justice legislation. This is what I'm interested into researching, not simply powerful, influential women with criminology degrees that were the first brave researchers to reject Strain Theory as too focused on the male-perspective. This project isn't set out to diminish the efforts of male researchers, but to acknowledge and thank the women who added a new take on the way the world works with an outsider perspective that they simply wouldn't have the ability to offer. We all come with new information because we all experience things differently. The absence of a formal education in a specific related area isn't required to bring a new spin. We grow by hearing each other's stories, and I hope to share some from women who have gone under the radar throughout the history books.
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