Keiichi Matsuda: Augmented (Hyper)Reality
The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may...
View ArticleEconstories.tv: Fear the Boom and Bust Featuring John Maynard Keynes and F....
via youtube. In April 2008 I published OVO 18 MONEY. Following the pattern of many previous issues of OVO, I was using the publication of a magazine as a chance to learn about the theme found in that...
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Trevor Blake: The Bonus Army
President Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917. The United States joined World War One. 117,465 soldiers and civilians died from the United States alone. Thousands upon thousands...
View ArticleTrevor Blake: Prohibition in the News
Paul Elam: Drugs, War, Blood and Money It started, like a lot of deadly bad ideas, with politicians. We can thank the Democrats for the inception, but somewhere along the line, the Republicans stepped...
View ArticleKaren Elliot: Give Up Art, Save The Starving
Imagine a world in which art is forbidden! Art galleries would close. Books would vanish. Pop stars would shed their glamour overnight. Advertising would cease, television would die. We could refocus...
View ArticleAndy Capper: Anarchy and Peace, Litigated
If you pick up some crap book about the history of punk rock, chances are there will be about 90 pages dedicated to Joe Strummer’s jackets but only two sentences about Crass. This is despite them...
View ArticleTrevor Blake: Christianity in the News #12 (28 August 2010)
Mail Online: Claudy Bombing Priest James Chesney, Cover-up Agreed by Police, Ministers and Church The British government and the Catholic Church colluded to cover up Father Jim Chesney’s role in the...
View ArticleTrevor Blake: Introduction to OVO 10 MAYHEM
As the pillars of Western culture collapse (replaced by institutionalized alienation) schizophrenia and violence cease to be deviations and instead become survival characteristics. The apocalypse...
View ArticlePeter Lamborn Wilson – Back to 1911 Movement Manifesto: Photography
Everything has already been said about photography. We have it here in 1911 but even now we can see how it may have been a big mistake. The Byzantine Iconoclasts were no mere smashers of idols – their...
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Trevor Blake: What Sort of Man Reads OVO?
Image c/o Retronaut. Thanks to the following for linking to OVO. Eithin links to Liberating Wednesday. Monday Vatican links to The Concordant Story. Financial Advices Blog links to The Bonus Army....
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