March 2011
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“Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible...”
– Edward Bernays - Propaganda (1928)
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“My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Mr Feastingonroadkill sez: me too.
(via feastingonroadkill)
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Our Time of Universal Deceit Needs an Orwell →
In his marvelous book, The Emotional Lives of Animals, Marc Bekoff describes the devastating impact on animals of being kept in small cages. US soldier Bradley Manning has been kept illegally in an even smaller cage for eight months with no end in sight. At his press conference on March 11, one reporter found the courage to ask President Obama about the conditions of Manning’s confinement. The...
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Inception is Titanic for Hipsters?
Why didn’t someone tell me Inception was just as boring as Titanic. Inception = Action sequence, then some pointless dialogue about how they need to dream deeply but “Oh it’s never been done!”, action sequence, “oh my wife might show up”, action sequence, “Oops we are so deep in the dream that if we die in dream we go to dream limbo!”, action...
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worship the glitch: I've pretty clearly expressed... →
mikehudack:
ohhleary:
But I’ve been saying for years what David Brooks finally said this morning: there needs to be a clear distinction between private-sector unions and public-sector unions.
Public sector unions and private sector unions are very different creatures. Private…
This distinction between public and private sector unions is bullshit. IWW. One big union.
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“As for crowdsourcing being a “labor of love” (Shirky primly reminds us that the...”
– Chris Lehmann (via jhnbrssndn)
The industrial factory commodified the physical labor of workers and now the digital factory commodifies the attention of web users - our “playful” wanderings over the Internet performed by mere fingers, eyes and consciousness is reminiscent of the strenuous physical...
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Situationist is an iPhone app that makes your... →
modernandmaterialthings:
I’m down with inciting people to hug each other and all, but my hope is that the use of this app will be more in line with the goals and principles of Debord and the Situationist International. Impromptu discussion of class politics with strangers? Sure. Identifying opportunities to increase critical discussion and analysis of mass media and individual notions of the...
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http://www.prefixmag.com/ →
wierdarchivist:
I’ve found some cool stuff at Prefix Magazine. Check it out.
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Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture →
We commence publication of Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture with a special issue on what we believe is a matter of considerable interest. It begins with a question: ‘Do recent developments in the media – convergence, interactivity, Web 2.0 in short, mean that we need to reassess how we think about the media, how we research into it and how we write and teach about it?’ The guest...
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melancohol1 asked: No problem, I hope your friend enjoys tumblr. I usually post mostly gifs and flowers and silly things, I actually do write sometimes, mostly it's after having had too much to drink and I get pretty vile. So I stick to pictures :)
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WA and I go way back to high school days. New to tumblr so follow him.
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“What is utopian is the partial, merely political revolution, the revolution that...”
– Karl Marx, from “Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Introduction” (via avenyc)
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Everything is a Remix →
raycote:
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