Van Newman

Viewing technology in the longue durée foregrounds how slavery undergirds conditions of contemporary extraction, surveillance, and the insistence on positing knowledge as outside of those arrangements—practices that produce today’s technologies. Contributors to this issue of Logic(s), “Out of Place,” challenge the logic that racism is contaminating... See more

People need to eat and pay the rent. “An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint,” said artist Ben Shahn. “A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.” Whether an artist makes money off his work or not, money has to come from somewhere, be it a day job, a wealthy spouse, a trust

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