June 2011
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“One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that...”
– David Harvey, Introduction, A Companion to Marx’s Capital (via woundedgalaxy)
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Truth, Threats and the IMF →
” At a crisis meeting of European Finance Ministers in Luxembourg a week ago, the Acting Head of the IMF, Mr John Lipsky, made theIMF’s position very clear,
“…Europe is at a “crossroads. The euro area needs to strengthen economic governance and may need to be more intrusive in terms of national structures.”
The IMF has, for some time been in favour of...
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Theories of Patriarchy →
The joy of the patriarchy theory is that it can be all things to all people. It thrives on the “vague feelings” so beloved by sections of the women’s movement, rather than on a materialist analysis. Consequently, even searching for a definition of the term can be difficult, since there are so many to choose from.
Patriarchy can for instance refer to a specific society where the father (the...
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“The stress on ‘war of position’ in the Prison Notebooks must be set in its...”
– Gramsci versus Eurocommunism
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HARI KARI/HACKERY →
It’s rather ironic that an article whose main premise is that Negri negates a “truthful memory”, essentially attempting to fabricate history to fit his own political agenda, seems to be based upon an encounter in the ICA which is almost entirely fabricated. To take Negri’s answers to entirely different questions, and recontextualise them around Hari’s agenda, which involves the sustenance of the...
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Is Johann Hari a copy-pasting churnalist?
bwhelan:
Orwell Prize winning hack Johann Hari has some explaining to do. After reading a recent blog post detailing how he seems to have plagiarised large parts of his interview with Antonio Negri I thought I’d have a closer look at his work.
As a test I picked a recent interview of Hari’s at random and went through his quotes, doing a basic check for plagiarism. The results are pretty...
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“To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get...”
– Arundhati Roy (via poorartists)
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Silicon Sisters Builds Videogames for Women by... →
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Steer clear of The Tumblr IQ Society →
Hot on the heels of recent action taken by Tumblr to combat spammers, Tumblr users are currently a little bit annoyed by a curious spamrun called “The Twitter IQ Society”.
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Black Like Them →
tetw:
by Malcolm Gladwell
My cousins, Rosie and Noel, are from Jamaica. They don’t consider themselves black at all.
Gladwell’s take on the difference between African-Americans, Caribbean-Americans and Black Caribbeans - and how they are perceived by others.
There’s some good pop sociology in this and i def think it makes for good talking points
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Adieu Jack Warner, but beware the next generation... →
“Rather like tyrannical dictators, who don’t expect to die quietly in their beds, one somehow never expected Jack Warner’s professional death to happen offstage in press releases and leaked reports. After all, only a few weeks ago the Fifa vice-president was threatening to unleash “a football tsunami”, so at the very least one expected him to open fire like Tony...
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“I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says ‘You...”
– Aaron Sorkin (via writingadvice)
Every morning of my life!
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“Felix Guattari and I have remained Marxists, in our two different ways, perhaps,...”
– Gilles Deleuze (via digitalpidgin)
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“Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine,...”
– Walter Benjamin (via entertainmentdecay)
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“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our...”
– Audre Lorde (via lunetlautre)
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"This Is Not A Program to Salvage the [Greek]...
from zerohedge
The best quote on the Greek parliament’s vote of confidence for Prime Minister George Papandreou - and thus his austerity plan:
“This is not a program to salvage the economy, it’s a program for pillage before bankruptcy,” said Alexis Tsipras, head of the small opposition Left Coalition.
It’s not just Greece.
As PhD economist Michael Hudsonsaid in...
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The War On Drugs - Political Language →
underpaidgenius:
Drug prohibition has had very modest effect in reducing consumption, with the results best summed up by data on the street price of illicit drugs:
Over the past 25 years in the United States, enforcement of drug prohibition has expanded dramatically. Over the same period, however, the trends in drug production and consumption have been essentially flat, and the real,...
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Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter →
markcoatney:
“‘Modern corporate life is increasingly using images – not solemn texts – to communicate ideas. Indeed, the more that words proliferate on our computer screens (and BlackBerries or smartphones) the more people assume that text alone is dull: diagrams, pictures, whiteboard scribbles – or Post-it notes – are needed to grab attention””
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Gillian Tet in the FT (via richardturley)
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The Liberty Scam: Why even Robert Nozick, the... →
“When Hayek insists welfare is the road is to serfdom, when Nozick insists that progressive taxation is coercion, they take liberty hostage in order to prevent a reasoned discussion about public goods from ever taking place. “According to them, any intervention of the state in economic life,” a prominentconservative economist once observed of the early neoliberals, “would...
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“Soros has drawn the particular ire of the right because his life is a...”
– History Unfolding (via azspot)
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“When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you...”
– Noam Chomsky - The Corporation (via noam-chomsky)
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“The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said “This is mine,” and...”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau (via ohthedemonscome)
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NPR talks Marvin's Room →
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“As it happened, the political operatives of the Bush administration became aware...”
– George Soros (via azspot)
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A football revolution →
There was one question the nerds kept having to answer. Yes, the traditionalists would say, stats may well be useful in a stop-start game like baseball. The pitcher pitches, the batter hits, and that event provides oodles of clear data for nerds to crunch. But surely football is too fluid a game to measure?
Forde responds: “Well, I think it’s a really genuine question. It’s one that we ask...
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“I prefer the term “natal alienation,” because it goes directly to the heart of...”
– Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death, 1982. (via dontbcruel)
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“Capital therefore takes no account of the health and the length of life of the...”
– Karl Marx. Capital Volume I, Chapter 10: The Working Day. (via rethinksocialism)
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“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that...”
– Derek Walcott, “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory” (via shespaintingtherosesred) 