November 2011
Listen
Bill Cornett—“Pretty Polly”
Mountain Music of Kentucky (1960; Smithsonian Folkways 1996).
Originally recorded in 1959.
Listen
Roscoe Holcomb—“Across the Rocky Mountain”
An Untamed Sense of Control (Smithsonian Folkways 2003).
Originally recorded by John Cohen in 1973.
Smokestack Lightnin'
Howlin' Wolf
Howlin’ Wolf - Smokestack Lightin’
@torrentfreak Stop Online #Piracy Act Opposition Bombards Congress #internetcensorship →
torrentfreak.com
“For those who’ve missed it, the Internet stood up against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) today.
Just a few random facts.
Every hour more than 23,000 emails are sent to Congress via the American Censorship campaign.
Tumblr users are sending 3.6 calls per second.
“Stop Online Piracy Act” is trending on Twitter.
Mozilla links to the anti-SOPA campaign from the default Home page of Firefox.”~torrentfreak
“We contend that “waste” is the political other of capitalist “value”, repeated with difference as part of capital’s spatial histories of surplus accumulation. We trace its work on India through a series of historical cuts, and suggest that the travels and perils of waste give us a “minor” history of capitalist surplus—the things, places and lives that are cast outside the pale of “value” at particular moments as superfluity, excess, or detritus; only to return at times in unexpected ways. The neologism “eviscerating urbanism” becomes our diagnostic tool to investigate both urban transformations in metropolitan India and their associated architectures for managing bodies and spaces designated as “wasteful”. In sum, our essay reveals how “waste” begins as civil society’s literal and figurative frontier only to become its internal and mobile limit in the contemporary era—a renewing source of jeopardy to urban life and economy, but also, in the banal violence and ironies of fin de millennium urbanism, a fiercely contested frontier of surplus value production.”
—Capitalism and Socio-Spatial Dialectics of ‘Waste’ « Discard Studies (via chaosbureau)
