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Research Team – Manual of Lost Ideas
The ICI Research Team for the Manual of Lost Ideas.
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ICI Corporate Seal
When we became incorporated in the state of California we received an embosser with our corporate seal. We never understood the intended use of the seal but over the years we have experimented with the...
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ICI Research Team
The ICI Associates contemplate the contents of the Manual of Lost Ideas. Parts of the Manual were eventually published in the ICI’s second major title, Benjamin’s Blind Spot: Walter Benjamin and the...
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Florentine Codex
When the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún set out to record the world of the Aztecs in 1540, he complained about “hidden meanings that are unrecognizable.” In Book X of his 12 volume Florentine...
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The Red Hand
A red palm print near an otherwise immaculately maintained doorway in Santa Monica. It resists inclusion in the visual marginalia that defines most urban sites. The red palm is the sign of the gypsy,...
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This is Bedlam
A small plaque on the side of the Great Eastern Hotel in London marks the site of the old Bethlehem Hospital. The sign obscures the other name for the site. As W. G. Sebald schooled us in Austerlitz,...
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LIBRARY SHELF: Hide and Seek
Shell, Hannah Rose; Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography and the Media of Reconnaissance (2012) ICI Shelf: Barthes’ Tear Accession #: ICI-02822
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LIBRARY SHELF: Camouflage
Leach, Neil; Camouflage (1996) ICI Shelf: Current Project First Line: “In his movie Zelig, Woody Allen depicts a character, Leomard Zelig, who quickly assimilates to those around him, growing a beard...
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