December 2011
26 posts
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“In [the] common-sense view, the State and the Market tower above all else as...”
– David Graeber, Debt (via bbcity)
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“Language means also culture and philosophy (if only at the level of common...”
– Antonio Gramsci, taken from Hegemony & Power: On the Relation between Gramsci and Machiavelli by Benedetto Fontana p173 (via philosophy-of-praxis)
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“These letters were syndicated round the world and were described by Richard...”
– John Hoyland
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“First I think that the FA has blown the whole thing out of proportion. If indeed...”
– Dr Manuel Barcia, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Deputy Director of the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at University of Leeds
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Extraditing Christopher Coke and a massacre in...
Hinds was in the hospital, still unconscious. When she awoke, days later, a doctor told her about Freeman. His burial order lists the time of his death as “between 23 and 25 May 2010” and the cause as “multi gunshot wounds.” He was shot ten or more times, according to a Jamaican doctor familiar with the postmortem.
No fewer than seventy-four people were killed in the operation to arrest...
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my latest book review -
If I were to offer a small criticism of Bonds of Empire, then, it is Rush’s acceptance of this supremacy of Britishness over alternative cutural forms. This also influences the language she uses when describing historical events: passive word choices remove the horrors and violence of the colonial encounter. The title Bonds of Empire itself, which suggests linkages and an echo of fraternity,...
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“Class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or...”
– E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (via sociolab)
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“Andrew Bickford (George Mason University) presented an extremely insightful and...”
– AAA 2011: A Review of Some Presentations on Military, Security, and Intelligence Topics
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“why motherfucker is a word
and fatherfucker isn’t
is all I know of woman’s...”
– Mark Leidner, The Angel in The Dream of Our Hangover: Aphorisms (via gesiye)
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“This enemy of ours is not just Wall Street, it’s the whole culture. It’s a way...”
– Grace Lee Boggs on system change and culture (via oisinnow)
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“Sociology asks what happens to men [sic] and by what rules they behave, not in...”
– Georg Simmel (1858-1918), The Sociology of Georg Simmel (via socim)
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“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most...”
– teaching literacy.
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“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners...”
– John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (via cultureofresistance)
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"The New York Times is totally complicit in... →
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the insufficiency of modern democratic...
“One source of antagonism that all of these movements will have to confront, even those that have just toppled dictators, is the insufficiency of modern democratic constitutions, particularly their regimes of labor, property, and representation. In these constitutions, first of all, waged labor is key to having access to income and the basic rights of citizenship, a relationship that has...
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“Eternal economic growth is impossible on a finite Earth. And the longer we...”
– From State Debt to State Money by Rudo de Ruijter
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“In modern societies, the most fundamental groups are the social classes, and the...”
– Stuart Hall quoted in Cultural materialism and identity politics
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Frantz Fanon and the Lumpenproletariat
“The key classes providing support for the revolution, for Fanon, are (1) the peasantry and (2) the lumpenproletariat, though for either class to struggle with success they must unite with “urban intellectuals”, a small number of whom “go to the people” in the countryside and begin to live and work among them. The revolution- ary struggle itself creates the...
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Fuck Yeah Radical Literature!: Zine: Alternatives... →
fuckyeahradicalliterature:
Note: Digital Read
Opening:
Whether we call them because of a dispute between neighbors or a robbery, a shooting or sexual violence, the police rarely meet our needs. They don’t help us heal. And they don’t prevent future harm. Rather than serve as advocates for true justice, they use their incredible power to reinforce the the oppressive status quo. They threaten...
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“Britain (and the Eurozone) are not facing a sovereign debt crisis. We are not...”
– It isn’t a liquidity problem it is an insolvency one