January 2011
54 posts
“We don’t expect anything from Obama, whom we regard as a great hypocrite. But we...”
– Egyptian blogger and activist Hossam el-Hamalawy talks to U.C. Irvine history professor Mark LeVine at Al Jazeera.
(“We Don’t Expect Any Help From America, Just To Leave Us Alone.” | The Awl)
“Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the...”
– Foucault
“It should by now be obvious that the utterance “hipster” finds its analogue in...”
– zizek (via theguywhoinventedfire)
The Green State: "But we've never *really* tried... →
savagemike:
squashed:
hilker:
Capitalism doesn’t exist.
hipsterlibertarian:
It’s not capitalism when the system is plagued with incomprehensible rules regarding mergers, acquisitions, and stock sales, along with wage controls, price controls, protectionism, corporate…
OK, so here’s the thing: there are two commonly-held definitions of capitalism. One by Max Weber and...
Why isn’t the media talking about another... →
cuntymint:
redguard:
Well, here’s a story that should be getting more attention, but isn’t. In the spring of 2009, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores was shot and killed when a group of Minutemen raided her parents’ home in Arivaca, Arizona hoping to steal drugs and money to fund their vigilante border-policing. The Daily Beast reports (trigger warning):
Early on the morning of May 30, 2009, Raul...
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I'm listed in Tumblweeds under marxism, theory,...
I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #marxism, #theory, #revolution
“In the new economy, human invention increasingly makes physical resources...”
– - Reagan
Economic historian Tom Frank traces the origin of the term ‘new economy’—in relation to contemporary neoliberal accumulation—back to a Reagan, in a speech given in 1988. The speech was given during what Jack Donaghue refers to as Reagan’s later years,...
“The industrial war of capitalists among themselves … has the peculiarity...”
– Marx, Wage Labour and Capital
“Political Correctness” is a reactionary term... →
feministlibrarian:
stfuconservatives:
Laurence Berg, Canada Research Chair for Human Rights, Diversity and Identity, disagrees with the idea that PC language and policies are oppressive. Why? Because he doesn’t really believe that PC policies existed in the first place.
“What [they]’re calling the ‘PC movement’ I would call a social movement by marginalised people and the people who support...
“[F]rom a materialist perspective, we can argue that objective conceptions of...”
– Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity
“We will ask what it functions with, in connection with what other things it does...”
– Deleuze and Guttari, A Thousand Plateaus
I swore off D&G several years ago, after a frustrating (attempted)read of anti-oedipus. It seems, now, that if I’m going to critique the Multitude, I’m going to have to familiarize myself with D&G and rhizomes. To my surprise, I really...
“If socialism wasn’t born of the Commune, it is from the Commune that dates that...”
– Edouard Vaillant, a member of the Paris Commune (via theguywhoinventedfire)
swiss whistleblower rudolf elmer plans to hand... →
commonunity:
“The offshore bank account details of 2,000 “high net worth individuals” and corporations – detailing massive potential tax evasion – will be handed over to the WikiLeaks organisation in London tomorrow by the most important and boldest whistleblower in Swiss banking history, Rudolf Elmer, two days before he goes on trial in his native Switzerland. British and American...
“If civilization may be measured by the tolerance of unintelligibility, its...”
– Innis
“‘The American newspapers are the most base, false, servile, and venal...”
– Fenno (1799), quoted in Innis.
A little bit of Toronto's labour history →
Neoliberalism and Videogames as Public Good
dropouthangoutspaceout:
One section from my recent thesis proposal.
In the popular narrative around videogames the most puzzling for many observers is the rapid growth and entrenchment of videogames in extreme representations of transgressive fantasies of violence and war. Avoiding the pitfalls of the moral panic that exists around these topics, the question of why the growth of such digital...
The Marxist Hypothesis →
“If Marx is mistaken for an affirmer and promulgator of “communism” as opposed to what he actually was, its most incisive critic (from within), we risk forgetting the most important if fragile achievement of history: the consciousness of potential in capital. As Marx wrote early on, in an 1843 letter to Arnold Ruge that called for the “ruthless criticism of everything existing,” “Communism is a...
As a fan of David McNally, I encourage people to... →
Historical Networks etc.
Tumblr,
I’m looking for a good book, or several, on global networks of trade and the relation of these networks to those which underpin the information economy. Anyone know of any?
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder...”
– George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (1946) (via 18goingon80)
“These boundary-defining activities can be both symbolic and territorial -...”
– John Thompson, The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media
With all that is being posted about the...
astringofpearls:
caraobrien:
mustamuseme:
There was a child shot today at the event.
I am saddened by the whole thing, but this just makes my heart sick even more.
If you are someone who prays, please also include this child, and his/her probably very frightened family.
If you are not someone who prays, good thoughts, fingers crossed, or whatever you may do, certainly could not hurt.
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The Student Loan Debt Abolition Movement in the... →
Debt has had a crushing impact on the lives of those who must take student loans to finance their university education in the US. For tuition fees that have been so notoriously high in private universities now are rising in public universities so quickly they are far out-pacing inflation. Student loan debt in the US has been much higher than in Europe (with the exception of Sweden), though...
Encylopedia of Trotskyism Online →
Richmond Cops Mistakenly Hand Over Anti-Protest... →
cuntymint:
redguard:
After filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the Richmond Police Department for police training documents, Mo Karn received much more than expected in return: homeland security and crowd control guides that show how the police target protests.
The police filed for an emergency court order yesterday to prohibit Karn from publicizing any of the documents, which...
As if profits funneled to the IDF wasn't enough... →
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“It would be possible to write a whole history of inventions made since 1830 for...”
– Marx, Capital I