{"id":3136,"date":"2010-10-07T18:34:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T23:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2010-10-07T18:34:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T23:34:16","slug":"engaged-public-space-and-shameless-plugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/10\/07\/engaged-public-space-and-shameless-plugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaged Public Space and Shameless Plugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Co-Thickculturite, Don Waisanen had a <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/09\/09\/provoking-social-conscience-in-public-spaces\/\">great post<\/a> a while back about the political effect of public signage.\u00a0 here&#8217;s another jarringly effective example of what I&#8217;ll call &#8220;engaged public space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pre.cloudfront.goodinc.com\/posts\/post_full_1286409726american-kills.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This tally of military suicides is outside the studio of Brooklyn artist Sebastian Errasuriz.  Its power comes from its simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, if you have some free time, check Don out on the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/2010\/09\/30\/cowboys-and-comedy\/\">latest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/\">Sociology Improv podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, take some time to read through fellow-Thickculturan Russell Stockard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/threesuns-russrunner.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/from-new-orleans-to-port-au-prince.html\">compelling reflections <\/a>on his current trip to Haiti.      <\/p>\n<p>Finally, if you need some bedtime reading material, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/services.bepress.com\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107&amp;context=jpd\">one of my articles<\/a> just published in the Journal of Public Deliberation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-Thickculturite, Don Waisanen had a great post a while back about the political effect of public signage.\u00a0 here&#8217;s another jarringly effective example of what I&#8217;ll call &#8220;engaged public space.&#8221; This tally of military suicides is outside the studio of Brooklyn artist Sebastian Errasuriz. Its power comes from its simplicity. BTW, if you have some free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}