The topic du jour is "Anticipation" and chain reactions. With tottering banks, scrambling politicians, AIG again, and emergency talks at an EU economic crisis summit today, anticipation is not of the lovely childhood variety of birthdays and christmas lookings-forwards. This genre of anticipation is a kind of spreading dread, an abyss glanced, a cliffhanger pause.
Here is the visual equivalent of that variety of anticipation, with a bit of droll humor by Swiss artist duo Fischli and Weiss....a small excerpt...
* Apologies to F & W for recontextualizing, but Missmarketcrash thinks this is one of the best art pieces ever made, and, it is stuck in her head this morning....and by the way, speaking of the best things, did you come here to this blog by way of Tyler Cowen? Isn't he great?
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