October 2008
24 posts
Halloween « Stuff White People Like #113 →
Shoot, SWPL dissed all of my funny costume ideas - “the economy,” Napolean Dynamite. I guess I’ll have to one-up him by being an offensive character in a novel by a recently deceased celebrity (from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest - James Orin Incandenza (aka Himself) committing suicide by sticking his head in a microwave oven).
“In these past few weeks we have heard a lot about the “real economy”...”
– infinite thØught: badiou on the financial crisis
“while it is true that we live in a society that demands risky choices, it is one...”
– Slavoj Žižek “Don’t Just Do Something, Talk” (Radical Perspectives on the Crisis)
Countering Fascist Forces: Defending The Idea Of... →
61 killed, 470 injured in serial blasts in India,... →
Although the NYTimes points to the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), a separatist group, as a possible culprit, the ULFA has denied involvement in these bombings.
my moment of zen today -
Interesting drawing... →
Synchronized Presidential Debating - Boing Boing
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Whoever our president, he’s going to be a talking head. This is what we get when we alienate our political rights to the state - alienating politics.
BLDGBLOG: Zones of Exclusion →
Kids maps of the 200 sq. meters that makes up their world; “anti-territorial projects” and “micro-territorialization” in inner-city London. I love the first comment on this post: 2pac’s “To Live in Die in LA.”
what a funny election!
“Yo mama so fat, she thinks the G8 is a Value Meal.” (‘Yo mama so fat’ political fights via boing boing)
Monday’s The Daily Show - Jon Stewart is the only critical, insightful news to watch these days. He destroyed the latest Republican bullshit line about “real America” in small, racist, ass-backwards towns, such as with campaign manager...
So long, suckers. Millionaire hedge fund boss... →
(thanx to Jecca for the link)
"I ate too much and then I threw up" - very small... →
My new favorite shoegazer song - "Passing and... →
“The state is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a...”
– (Gustav Landauer)
Radical Perspectives on the Crisis →
Useful, constructive analyses of the current financial crisis from anti-capitalist perspectives.
“Here’s the thing about Americans. You can send their kids off by the...”
– Mad Dog Palin : Rolling Stone
Sarah Palin hates black people. (obviously, but... →
On the Poverty of Student Life →
A pamphlet published in 1966 at the University of Strasbourg by students of the university and members of the Internationale Situationniste. It’s a scathing critique of student life and politics.
Here’s a choice quote from their proposed remedy of Workers’ Councils: “The market has one central principle—the loss of self in the aimless and unconscious creation of a...
Here's How to Fix the Wall Street Mess ...from... →
Mike’s ten point rescue plan is brilliant. Don’t let the greedy rich bail themselves out of the mess they made. I especially like his idea for a “people’s bank.”