WRITER CHRIS KRAUS devotes a long section of her 1997 book I Love Dick to artist Hannah Wilke, who had passed away from lymphoma a few years earlier. Identifying with Wilke’s reputation as a “female monster,” Kraus glimpsed what few other writers at the time could see. Over a career spanning more than three decades, from the late 1950s until her last days in the cancer ward, where she died at age fifty-two, Wilke treated her art as a vector of her desire, “continuously exposing [herself] to whatever situation occurs,” as she put it in a 1976 statement. Rejected as a shameless exhibitionist, she
will prove little more than a mirage in the desert. one key to modern revolution, if preventing regimes from controlling access to new media, there may be hope however in technology as the obama administration tries to help reformers in places like iran and china fight censorship. richard lobo is director of the international broadcasting bureau, an independent agency, and welcome to you. first of all, let s talk about iran, the green revolution. we saw what happened. there were fledgling attempts through cell phones. this was two years ago, and it was completely stifled. how have we managed to work around or trying to work around all this to help the iranian reformers rise again? women, first of all, i think more and more people in that region have gotten access to cell phones, to laptops, to mobile devices of all kind and we re trying to capitalize on that. our agency started almost 70