October 2009
80 posts
WatchSoprano feat Demon One - “j’étais comme eux”
- hip-hop francais with scenes of communal life in the banlieue.
French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality -... →
Contrary to my earlier praise of Velib, the French public bike-sharing system, I’m now anti-Velib. These bikes cost $3,500 each, there are 20,600 of them around the city, and 80% of these have been stolen or damaged. JCDecaux, an outdoor-advertising corporation, has been a major financier and organizer of the project: “The company invested about $140 million to set up the system and...
WatchYeah Yeah Yeahs - “Maps”
I’d never seen this video until i found it on Antville’s top 101 videos of the last decade (which includes Keith’s BPA). It does a brilliant job of highlighting the powerful artistry of the music. It implicitly critiques the pretentiousness of most music videos (and most contemporary music) by continually drawing the viewer’s...
jstn:
Freescha - Speed Dater
The Flaming Lips - “Silver Trembling...
Watchjnamakkal:
I totally want to see this. “There is a cool Islam - you just have to find it.”
Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam
El Perro del Mar - “Party”
Ever-Present Surveillance Rankles the British... →
read this NYT article, and then read this interview with Mike Davis: “Resisting, Subverting and Destroying the Apparatus of Surveillance and Control.” I was just in London, and it really is like 1984 — cameras on every corner.
Big Boi - “Shine Blockas” [ft. Gucci...
Field Study - Just How Relevant Is Political... →
Watch political scientists scramble to prove their ‘rigor’ and ‘relevance’ to their masters in the State.
White supremacists versus the community: Austin... →
Noam and Hugo: BFFs →
yo la tengo - ‘last days of disco’
No Age - “You’re a Target”
UCSC STUDENTS OCCUPY DEAN’S OFFICE, 15 OCTOBER... →
French Farmers Stage Protest on Champs Elysées →
PARIS, Oct 16 (Reuters) - French farmers briefly blocked the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris with burning tires on Friday as part of a wave of protests around the country to demand government aid to help them overcome a plunge in their revenues.
Epistomology and Education Politics
[The following is a post for a reading group I’m doing with Eli T. and Zach SW on global university politics. It will probably only make sense if you’ve read the articles, which, this week, are from the recent issue of the Polygraph Journal called “Study, Students, Universities” :
- Alessondro Russo, “Destinies of the University” - Colectivo Situaciones,...
Keith’s magnanimity knows no bounds. From a recent interview:
When we were filming along the train tracks (with the city in the background), we saw a really creepy homeless woman who had these dogs with her covered with tumors. She picked up a rock and threatened to throw it at us. Non-stop laughs.
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The interviewer also linked to a top five list of Keith’s...
Mayer Hawthorne - “Maybe so, maybe no”
