Casa Segura..Border art?
Posted by justin on 16 Oct 2007 at 05:40 pm | Tagged as: borders, in yo face, opportunities, possibilities, sneak peeks
Seems Myspace is good for something..the other day my friend Julia sent along a bulletin making mention of a new project titled “Casa Segura.” I thought it quite relevant to our present locale and situation (you know..those fancy new solves-all-problems border fences?) . from the website :
Casa Segura (Safe House) is an artwork that combines a small public access structure on private land in the Sonoran desert in Southern Arizona with a dynamic bilingual web space that facilitates creative exchange, dialogue, and understanding. Located north of the Mexican border, Casa Segura engages three distinct groups: Mexican migrants crossing the border through this dangerous landscape, the property owners whose land they cross, and members of the general public interested in learning more about border issues and the intricate dynamics at play in this heavily trafficked region. It is a conceptual project that contrasts existing conditions with new choices that can positively transform how individuals on both sides of the divide engage with and perceive one another.
A lot more information is contained on the website. The prototype will be shown at Eyebeam in New York City,
Sept. 27-Nov. 10th, 2007.
Unfortunately, this makes me think of the Design Observer article “Why Design Won’t Save the World.” Hopefully I’m just being cynical…
And he shall separate them one from another,
as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.
And he shall set the sheep on his right,
but the goats on his left.
— Matthew 25: 32-33
This Abyss is also called “Hell”, and “The Many”.
Its name is “Consciousness”, and “The Universe”,
among men.
Reality is ’stupid’
But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he? As waters fail from a lake, and a river wastes away and dries up, so man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake, or be aroused out of his sleep. (Job 14:10-12)
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Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
to report what happened. You can
call the FTC’s ID Theft Hotline-1-877-IDTHEFT (438-4338) or
use the FTC’s online ID Theft Complaint form.
for up-to-date information about how to work with credit bureaus and law enforcement agencies to reclaim your identity.
Social Security Administration (SSA) for
a replacement card if your Social Security card was lost or stolen,
a new Social Security number in certain circumstances, and
help to correct your earnings records.
Office of the Inspector General, SSA, to report Social Security number misuse that
involves buying or selling Social Security cards, or
may involve people with links to terrorist groups or activities.
The Federal government and numerous states have passed laws prohibiting identity theft. Anyone who intentionally uses the Social Security number of another person to establish a new identity or defraud the government is breaking the law.
We’re making sure that Social Security numbers are less accessible by strengthening our processes for issuing new Social Security numbers and replacement Social Security cards. Additionally, we are working with other federal agencies to find ways to detect and prevent identity theft.
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“But he that filches from me my good name/Robs me of that which not enriches him/And makes me poor indeed.” – Shakespeare, Othello, act iii. Sc. 3.
The short answer is that identity theft is a crime. Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person’s personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain. These Web pages are intended to explain why you need to take precautions to protect yourself from identity theft. Unlike your fingerprints, which are unique to you and cannot be given to someone else for their use, your personal data especially your Social Security number, your bank account or credit card number, your telephone calling card number, and other valuable identifying data can be used, if they fall into the wrong hands, to personally profit at your expense. In the United States and Canada, for example, many people have reported that unauthorized persons have taken funds out of their bank or financial accounts, or, in the worst cases, taken over their identities altogether, running up vast debts and committing crimes while using the victims’s names. In many cases, a victim’s losses may include not only out-of-pocket financial losses, but substantial additional financial costs associated with trying to restore his reputation in the community and correcting erroneous information for which the criminal is responsible.
In one notorious case of identity theft, the criminal, a convicted felon, not only incurred more than $100,000 of credit card debt, obtained a federal home loan, and bought homes, motorcycles, and handguns in the victim’s name, but called his victim to taunt him — saying that he could continue to pose as the victim for as long as he wanted because identity theft was not a federal crime at that time — before filing for bankruptcy, also in the victim’s name. While the victim and his wife spent more than four years and more than $15,000 of their own money to restore their credit and reputation, the criminal served a brief sentence for making a false statement to procure a firearm, but made no restitution to his victim for any of the harm he had caused. This case, and others like it, prompted Congress in 1998 to create a new federal offense of identity theft.
Reality is ’stupid’
Heartening op-ed from today’s (Wednesday) Los Angeles Times
regarding Texas resistance to the border wall.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-martinez17oct17,0,5062531.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
Reality is ’stupid’
(Space Hungry)
In mathematics, the term identity has several important uses:
An identity is an equality that remains true regardless of the values of any variables that appear within it, to distinguish it from an equality which is true under more particular conditions. For this, the symbol ≡ is sometimes used. (However, this can be ambiguous since the same symbol can also be used for a congruence relation.)
In algebra, an identity or identity element of a set S with a binary operation is an element e which combined with any element s of S produces s.
The identity function from a set S to itself, often denoted id or idS, such that id(x) = x for all x in S.
In linear algebra, the identity matrix of size n is the n-by-n square matrix with ones on the main diagonal and zeros elsewhere.
An old joke is quite relevant. A man flying a hot air balloon got lost. So he descended and asked a woman walking in a field “Where am I?” She thought for some time and then replied. “In a hot-air balloon”. Immediately the balloonist realized she was a mathematician, for three reasons (1) She thought before replying (2) What she said was absolutely correct and (3) Her reply was totally useless.
(Suññatā)
Now he denied that there were any mathematical facts to be discovered and he denied that mathematical statements were “true” in any real sense: they simply expressed the conventional established meanings of certain symbols.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1989-10-15), Diamond, Cora, ed
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