January 2012
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Jan 31st
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“It’s the oldest trick in the book. You create the illusion of terror, then you...”
–  Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh City
Jan 31st
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“Nationalism provides Eurocentric solutions to a Eurocentric global problem as it...”
– Ramón Grosfoguel
Jan 30th
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“How then, are we to interpret the current mess? Does this crisis signal, for...”
– David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital (via pragmatica)
Jan 29th
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“The existing Victorian system of education was created to mass-produce identical...”
– can changing how we teach make our kids smarter, more creative?
Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 25th
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“In Chicago , for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of...”
– Adolph Reed in the Village Voice, 1998
Jan 25th
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“The world was saved from the terrors of the great depression not by some...”
– David Harvey, The Limits to Capital, afterword (via daplaney)
Jan 25th
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Jan 23rd
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Amazing Spider-Man poster 3
cakesandcomics: Here is my final poster for The Amazing Spider-Man. With this one I wanted a moodier feel with an 80’s vibe going on… I hope folks like it! Matt.
Jan 23rd
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The Educational Lottery →
Jan 23rd
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“On Foucault’s account, modern control of sexuality parallels modern control of...”
– Gutting, Gary, “Michel Foucault”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/foucault/>. (via hummussexual)
Jan 23rd
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An Abundance of Exoplanets Changes our Universe
The bottom line is, I think, very clear; there really are planets everywhere, and they must number in the hundreds of billions in the Milky Way. Thus, the sheer abundance of planets profoundly impacts the nature of our exploration of the universe and our quest to understand our own significance or insignificance. There is nothing trivial about the discovery of planetary plentitude, because it...
Jan 23rd
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“The owner of the biggest art gallery in St. Louis has far less influence on...”
–  A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation William H. Sewell, Jr. The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 98, No. 1. (Jul., 1992), pp. 1-29.  (via massadaydone)
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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“You and I, in fact everyone all over the world, we’re literally African under...”
– - Spencer Wells, PhD, Genetic Anthropologist, Explorer In Residence, National Geographic Society (via wearerising) Cool job title - Explorer In Residence. Although one would think an explorer would definitely not be in residence but out and about somewhere. Maybe they are exploring from their...
Jan 22nd
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WatchWatch
Wow! This is Teahupo’o, a break off the coast of Tahiti in French Polynesia. The waves here literally suck water off the reef below, creating a vortex that puts the back of the wave at sea level. It’s some of the fastest, thickest waves in the world.
Jan 19th
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Sleep Is the Interest We Have to Pay on the...
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. So wrote Arthur Schopenhauer, comparing life to finance in a universe that must keep its books balanced. At birth you receive a loan, consciousness and light borrowed from the void, leaving a hole...
Jan 19th
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“Credit default swaps [financial insurance policies] are to “hedging”...”
– Marshall Auerbach
Jan 18th
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“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution,...”
– MLK on the radical challenge presented by growing materialism (via rebelapplause)
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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“As the great classicist Moses Finley often liked to say, in the ancient world,...”
– David Graeber (via azspot)
Jan 16th
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“Wealth, if limits are not set for it, is great poverty.”
– Epicurus (via quotemarx)
Jan 16th
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Alan Moore at Occupy London →
Jan 16th
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“I think there are some very important questions we need to ask about religion in...”
– Vine Deloria, in conversation with Derrick Jensen in Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control (via cultureofresistance)
Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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“the physical structure of your brain is malleable, depending on what you learn.”
– What are memories made of?
Jan 14th
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Jan 9th
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Avoiding Another Long War: To President Obama from...
Memorandum to President Obama from  Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) on the subject of Avoiding Another Long War; January 4, 2012 As professionals with collectively hundreds of years of experience in intelligence, foreign policy, and counterterrorism, we are concerned about the gross misrepresentation of facts being bruited about to persuade you to start another war. We have...
Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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“Labour stopped calling itself socialist long ago. The last vestige of its former...”
– Deborah Orr
Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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“As Kim Kardashian recently reminded us, marriage is no longer the inevitable...”
– The Wedding Party
Jan 6th
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“The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter:...”
– smaddox: Quotes from Audre Lorde’s Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist Response  
Jan 4th
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“…and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that’s wrong with...”
– Tracy Kidder drawing on Paul Farmer, Mountains Beyond Mountains (via emotional-algebra)
Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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