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This week my graduate seminar students (at Parsons Fine Arts MFA) and I had a great discussion leading from Robert Smithson's writings on entropy to issues of pessimism about social change and what might be the point of human intervention towards ideals of progressive social activism in an entropically irreversible situation: interesting in this light to read Bob Herbert Op-Ed piece in the October 26, 2010 copy of The New York Times, "The Corrosion of America": do we just go along "haplessly"/hopelessly with the flow of entropy and the corrosion and ruin of our infrastructure (a ruin which is in a sense "always already" from before its inception, in Smithson's example of "The Monuments of Passaic") creating or suggesting an art which does not try to impose an idealist order or moral value to an entropic situation of urban and suburban decay, or do we believe enough in human labor despite ultimate futility or mortality to make the investment in our near futures by fixing the infrastructure?

Mira Schor: Corroded infrastructure 2010/Robert Smithson's Writings on Entropy, 1966-67 Mira Schor 2010

This week my graduate seminar students (at Parsons Fine Arts MFA) and I had a great discussion leading from Robert Smithson's writings on entropy to issues of pessimism about social change and what might be the point of human intervention towards ideals of progressive social activism in an entropically irreversible situation: interesting in this light to read Bob Herbert Op-Ed piece in the October 26, 2010 copy of The New York Times, "The Corrosion of America": do we just go along "haplessly"/hopelessly with the flow of entropy and the corrosion and ruin of our infrastructure (a ruin which is in a sense "always already" from before its inception, in Smithson's example of "The Monuments of Passaic") creating or suggesting an art which does not try to impose an idealist order or moral value to an entropic situation of urban and suburban decay, or do we believe enough in human labor despite ultimate futility or mortality to make the investment in our near futures by fixing the infrastructure?

Mira Schor: Corroded infrastructure 2010/Robert Smithson's Writings on Entropy, 1966-67 Mira Schor 2010

This week my graduate seminar students (at Parsons Fine Arts MFA) and I had a great discussion leading from Robert Smithson's writings on entropy to issues of pessimism about social change and what might be the point of human intervention towards ideals of progressive social activism in an entropically irreversible situation: interesting in this light to read Bob Herbert Op-Ed piece in the October 26, 2010 copy of The New York Times, "The Corrosion of America": do we just go along "haplessly"/hopelessly with the flow of entropy and the corrosion and ruin of our infrastructure (a ruin which is in a sense "always already" from before its inception, in Smithson's example of "The Monuments of Passaic") creating or suggesting an art which does not try to impose an idealist order or moral value to an entropic situation of urban and suburban decay, or do we believe enough in human labor despite ultimate futility or mortality to make the investment in our near futures by fixing the infrastructure?

Mira Schor: Corroded infrastructure 2010/Robert Smithson's Writings on Entropy, 1966-67 Mira Schor 2010

Instead of greeting Daddy Wotan with a big hug, the impetuous Brünnhilde slid haplessly down the "mountain," landing stage front, flat on her derrière good bone-density test!

Lee Rosenbaum: Fright Night at the Opera: Met's "Die Walküre" Enthralls, Despite Mishaps Lee Rosenbaum 2011

The courtyard will play host to the dreamscape of the book's protagonist, the haplessly bombastic Ignatius J.

Karen Dalton-Beninato: The Goddess Fortuna in an Attempt to Make Sense of It All Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011

The courtyard will play host to the dreamscape of the book's protagonist, the haplessly bombastic Ignatius J.

Karen Dalton-Beninato: The Goddess Fortuna in an Attempt to Make Sense of It All Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011

The courtyard will play host to the dreamscape of the haplessly bombastic Ignatius J.

Karen Dalton-Beninato: The Goddess Fortuna in an Attempt to Make Sense of It All Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011

Instead of greeting Daddy Wotan with a big hug, the impetuous Brünnhilde slid haplessly down the "mountain," landing stage front, flat on her derrière good bone-density test!

Lee Rosenbaum: Fright Night at the Opera: Met's "Die Walküre" Enthralls, Despite Mishaps Lee Rosenbaum 2011

The courtyard will play host to the dreamscape of the book's protagonist, the haplessly bombastic Ignatius J.

Karen Dalton-Beninato: The Goddess Fortuna in an Attempt to Make Sense of It All Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011

The courtyard will play host to the dreamscape of the book's protagonist, the haplessly bombastic Ignatius J.

Karen Dalton-Beninato: The Goddess Fortuna in an Attempt to Make Sense of It All Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011