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a journal of visual language
Destructive criticism must be rehabilitated. - Walter Benjamin
Founded in 1998, Woid is committed to the belief that progressive thought can be ruthless, intelligent, inclusive and fun. Complete mailings are sent to subscribers via e-mail. Subscriptions are $10.00 a year, or whatever you feel like paying, actually. Or just ask nicely. Contact the editor, or click here.
Editor-inter-Pares: Paul Werner. Contributing editors: Hoipolloi Cassidy, Frederick Devious, Snoop Degas Dogg, Wölfflin Jack, James Jackson Jiveass, Exquisite Kops, The Invisible Ham, Screamin' Jew Hawkins, Charles "Ruthless" Morey, "Quill" Mike, Bugsy Riegl, Oskar Shlepper, Murph the Serf, Martha Stewedrat, I. F. Stoned, Jacopone the Toady, Trotsky the Horse, Fearless Vosdanik.
The following represents a selection of recent mailings from WOID. Copyright © 2007, 2008 Paul Werner, under Creative Commons license.
archives:
Sat, Mar 15, 2008. WOID XVIII-50. Sadness in Sarkozie. Local Elections in France.
Mar 9-13, 2008. WOID XVIII-48/49. Museumwatch. Le Salon de 2008 Baudelaire! Thou shouldst be living at this hour!
Wed, Mar 5, 2008. WOID XVIII-46. Museumwatch: Down these Mean LACMAs...
Sat, Mar 1, 2008. WOID XVIII-45. La Leçon de francais [II]. Dux redux...
Fri, Feb 29, 2008. WOID XVIII-44, 47. Museumwatch: Bonjour, Comrade Courbet! Courbet a Republican? Hello?
Thu, Feb 28, 2008. WOID XVIII-43. The croaker King of Krokylegmus. William F. Buckley's dead. Boo-hoo.
Wed, Feb 27, 2008. WOID XVIII-42. Museumwatch: Bo-ring. Poussin at the Met.
Sat, Feb 23, 2008. WOID XVIII-41. Slouching towards Washington. More stolen elections.
Sun, Feb 17, 2008. WOID XVIII-40. Bullies in a China Shop. InfraGard goes to college.
Sat, Feb 16, 2008. WOID XVIII-39. Ward Heelers Anonymous. Stolen election? What stolen election?
Thu, Feb 14, 2008. WOID XVIII-38. Moonbats for Obama. Is he - or isn't he?
Fri, Feb 8, 2008. WOID XVIII-37. Museumwatch: Self-hating Critic. Michael, uh...Kimmelstein, is it?
Mon, Feb 4, 2008. WOID XVIII-36. L'Affaire Starkosky. Dreyfus, Stavisky, Sarkozy.
Fri, Feb 1, 2008. WOID XVIII-35. Museumwatch. Museums and the preservation of the future.
Thu, Jan 31, 2008. WOID XVIII-34. Museumwatch. Hissyfits. Battle of the Artworld sex-kittens.
Wed, Jan 30, 2008. WOID XVIII-33. Museumwatch. It’s the overvaluation, stupid. Not this scam, that one!
Tues, Jan 29, 2008. WOID XVIII-32. What's the difference between George Bush and Jerry Lewis?
Sun, Jan 27, 2008. WOID XVIII-31. Feel the pain with John McCain. The candidate's culture platform.
Wed, Jan 23, 2008. WOID XVIII-30. Free-Market Moron walks into a bar...
Mon, Jan 21, 2008. WOID XVIII-29. Review: Headband-Ripper. "People of the Book," by G. Brooks.
January 16 & 18. WOID XVIII-27/28. Museumwatch: The MoMA Trap. Sex, Lies and Museology.
January 13, 2008. WOID XVIII-26. Museumwatch: Ooh la-la. Naughty medieval illuminations.
January 11, 2008. WOID XVIII-25. Guantanamo on the Seine. Good old-fashioned American brutality abroad.
January 10, 2008. WOID XVIII-24. And yet more Free Market Moron jokes!
December 18, 2007. WOID XVIII-23. Museumwatch: Like flies to poop on a sunny day. Barenboim banned from Gaza.
December 11, 2007. WOID XVIII-22. Planet Marx: New York Times makes it official: Capitalism is failing.
December 7 & 8, 2007. WOID XVIII-20 & 21. Museumwatch: a scram-bag for your brain. A primer on exile.
December 5, 2007. WOID XVIII-19. & yet another Free Market Moron...joke.
December 2 and 4, 2007. WOID XVIII-16 & 18. Museumwatch: Smart Art. Wilhelm Reich: a restrospective
December 3, 2007. WOID XVIII-17. The Parzifal Inheritance. Hillary apologizes...in your dreams.
November 19, 2007. WOID XVIII-15. "Why did the Free Market Moron..." What Little Lulu jokes were to the 'thirties...
November 15, 2007. WOID XVIII-14. Museumwatch: M. Nicolini. The economics of parchment-making.
November 14, 2007. WOID XVIII-13. Planet Marx [Conclusion]: The Marxchurian Candidate. Soon to be a minor beastseller!
November 13, 2007. WOID XVIII-12. A damned, good writer. Norman Mailer - let her R.I.P.
November 12, 2007. WOID XVIII-11. Planet Marx [XI]: A bug on the windshield of History.
November 8, 2007. WOID XVIII-10. La Leçon de français
November 5, 2007. WOID XVIII-9. Museumwatch: U.A.E.
November 4, 2007. WOID XVIII-8. Review: Carping Tunnel Vision.
October 30, 2007. WOID XVIII-7. Planet Marx [X]: Act class.
October 29, 2007. WOID XVIII-6. Museumwatch: Omega Manet. Abu Dhabi does it again.
WOID XVIII-5. From New York...It's THE PENNIES! The prestigious awards for creative political signage.
WOID XVIII-4. Planet Marx [IX]: Wooden Tongue.
WOID XVIII-3. Review: Politic identities. Katha meets Karl.
WOID XVIII-2. Museumwatch: Mercenaries of Culture. Art welfare for the rich in San Francisco.
WOID XVIII-1. Museumwatch: The Aging of Rembrandt. Business as usual at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
WOID XVII-50. Planet Marx [VIII]: The Death of Little Boris.
WOID XVII-49. Planet Marx [VII]: Drowning the fish.
WOID XVII-48. Museumwatch: Museum to New Yorkers: Kiss my Astor!
WOID XVII-47. Museumwatch: The Bilbao Song
WOID XVII-46. Jews who love themselves too much and the warmongers who love them.
WOID XVII-45. War of the Words. TSA meets Tolstoy
WOID XVII-44. Make the road by writing. When relations of production met systems of production.
WOID XVII-43. PLANET MARX [VI]: Capitalism: Free Samples!
WOID XVII-42. PLANET MARX [V]. All that is solid hangs around drinking beer and watching TV.
WOID XVII-41. Museumwatch: United Arab Workers.
WOID XVII-40. Ass Warfare. It's Vaffanculoday!
WOID XVII-39. Happy Work Day!
WOID XVII-38. The dogs Bai. The caravan passes. Book review.
WOID XVII-37. OUR FRIEND THE BUS: Sex and the 6:00 am to Patzcuaro. Travel.
WOID XVII-36. A shark in formaldehyde. NYU-Abu Dhabi
WOID XVII-35. Museumwatch : De la muséocratie en Amérique [I]
WOID XVII-34. PLANET MARX [IV]. Who you gonna call? Geistbusters!
WOID XVII-33. Comment dit-on "kvelled it out" en 'Strine? Announcement.
WOID XVII-32. Hurricane Dean makes landfall. Speculators make windfall.
WOID XVII-31. Exquisite Kops. In the grand tradition of Karl Kraus.
WOID XVII-29-30. Planet Marx [III]: Dialectic Harder.
WOID XVII-29. Planet Marx [II]: Dialectic Hard.
WOID XVII-28. Museumwatch: De Docta Ignorantia. L'Histoire de l'Art au lycée.
WOID XVII-27. Museumwatch: In Advance of the Broken Rep. The revolving door between museums and corporations.
WOID XVII-26. Planet Marx [I]: Marx for Demmies. Introducing a series on Marxist theory.
WOID XVII-24. Zéro de conduite. Libé prend New York en pitié
WOID XVII-23, 25. ROFLMAO: Rolling Out the Frankfurt Laughing My Adorno Off! Review of Edward Said, Music at the Edge.
WOID XVII-22. Big Apple Circus. Announcement: Lecture by Bernard Maisner.
WOID XVII-21. Museum Watch: Strategic Thinking. Needed: business-friendly museum directors.
WOID XVII-20. Museum Watch: Stick another museum on the barbie, mate! Announcement of a non-event.
WOID XVII-19. Museum Watch: Mère des arts, des larmes et des lois - À Montréal, L'Affaire Zeke.
WOID XVII-18. La vie en rouge. In Paris, Belleville boils over.
WOID XVII-16 and 17: Machine against the rage [III] Review: Barcelona and Modernity at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
WOID XVII-14 and 15. Our Friend the Bus: Everybody knows.
WOID XVII-13. Brother from another art scene. More on L'Affaire Zeke.
WOID XVII-12. How to increase union membership. French unions' support of immigrant rights.
WOID XVII-11. We few! We heppeh few! Subscription drive.
WOID XVII-10. The Old Collegiality Play. Norman Finkelstein and the tenure game.
WOID XVII-9. Neither God nor Master nor Goddess nor Mistress nor Transgendered Deity nor... Announcement.
WOID XVII-8. Museumwatch: Ms. Munson Gets Religion. Shenanigans in Afghanistan.
WOID XVII-7. Fright to Canada. Yet more about L'Affaire Zeke.
WOID XVII-5. The New Yorker: Fox News for France Post-election blues
WOID XVII-4. Happy Mother's Day, Ségolène! Post-election blues
WOID XVII-3, 6. Machine against the rage [I] Review: Tiffany at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
WOID XVII-2. American journalist gets her grilled-cheese sandwich: France is saved. American views of Sarkozy
WOID XVI-50/XVII-1. Oy! on the Prize. Review of English, The Economy of Prestige.
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