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Agnes Denes, Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space - Map Projections: The Snail, 1978, ink on rag paper with printed Mylar overlay, 24 x 30”. IN THE FIRST MONTHS OF QUARANTINE, my apartment became my personal ecosystem. The idiosyncrasies of daily life in isolation—the peculiar sleep hours, the midnight meals on the fire escape, the evening Scrabble ritual—felt entirely specific. And yet, with over half of the world’s population instructed to quarantine as well, these intimate idiosyncrasies were twinned with a totally novel feeling-in-common. When we are asked to “flatten the curv...

Almost as if we could not have an ordinary moment when everybody gets together, agrees on a spending package. we avoid a crisis and a deadline. clearly, the president was tweeting out these veto threats without consulting, without thinking through. it's not -- it wouldn't even be possible to bring lawmakers back into session. they're headed out on their easter recess, headed out of the country. it would be physically impossible to avoid a government shutdown very likely if he had gone through with this. so you see constant set of chaos, whether it's who is going to be fired, who is not going t...