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Friday, April 27, 2007

Obsessive website of the week

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The main reason I liked websites, when they first were invented -- and later, blogs -- and before that, zines and Princeton Architectural Press -- is the opportunity to peek over the shoulder of a cultural obsessive as he or she does his or her thing: exhuming, poring over, cataloging, and celebrating the fragments of everyday life that reveal some occluded truth about the social totality. Or something.

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So thanks, Patrick Cates, who once upon a time invented and obsessively chronicled "doing a Lynddie," for directing me to the website Throttling, which is dedicated to comic book images of people (often superheroes) being, well, throttled. One such image is distasteful, but gather several together and they become... sociology, psychology, maybe even art!

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