July 2009
51 posts
j.j. - “ecstasy”
Assück - “Civilization comes, civilization...
Employee Liberation Act (ZNet) →
Daniel Gross gives a constructive critique of the Employee Free Choice Act, calling for stronger provisions to promote worker self-activity and direct action. His “Employee Liberation Act” would entail:
- “Getting serious about discrimination against workers by putting anti-union discrimination on par with other forms of discrimination,”
- “Ending second-class...
Chain and the Gang - “Reparations”
Patras’ Crystal Night (refugee camp set on fire,... →
My first publication is hot off the press! →
The new issue of Polygraph (‘an international journal of culture and politics’) contains an article I co-wrote with my homie Isaac Kamola. It’s called “Creating Commons: Divided Governance, Participatory Management, and Struggles Against Enclosure in the University.” I’ll post the final version of it here when I receive my complimentary copy, but if you...
DJ Quik and Kurupt - 9x’s Outta 10
The Creation of Ambiguities between Workers and...
In this post, “We are all neoliberals,” Negatron gives some insight into an idea I’ve been trying to understand for awhile: “participatory management,” how workers are co-opted into doing the job of capitalists, thereby blurring the distinction between workers and capitalists (from Maurizio Lazzarato’s essay “Immaterial Labor”). In the following,...
Diplo and Santogold - new mix
Check out this hot new mix by Diplo and Santogold - “Top Ranking”
DJ Quik and Kurupt - “Hey Playa! (Moroccan...
WatchThe Dead Weather: “Treat Me Like Your Mother”
An explosive video — Jack White and the Kills’ Alison Mosshart shoot the shit out of each other, portraying the violence of relationships gone wrong.
“Golden Hours” - Brian Eno
Bridge to Nowhere: a Map of Golden Gate Jumpers... →
Over 1200 people have taken their life by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge since its opening in 1937. This map shows the frequency of their jumping off at different points on the bridge. Most prefer the bayside to the oceanside.
Jeff Goldblum Shatters Masturbation World Record!... →
The rumors about Jeff Goldblum dying during the same week as MJ were started by someone using FakeAWish.com to start a viral campaign to boost Goldblum’s popularity. If they wanted to be really effective, they should have gone with the “masturbation world record” story. Krassner’s article gives insight into the ethics of fake news, and makes me wonder about more serious...
The Anomalous Wave cannot be arrested! Let's... →
Please sign and circulate the call in solidarity with the students arrested (add also your affiliation): http://www.PetitionOnline.com/wave/petition.html
(from Edu-factory.org):
At dawn this morning, in the framework of an investigation ordered by Torino’s Public Prosecutor office, Italian police made dozens of unwarranted house searches against students and activists. 21 of them are under...
Obama denies neo-imperialism in Africa →
In Obama’s recent speech in Ghana, he said, “the West is not responsible for the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy over the last decade, or wars in which children are enlisted as combatants.”
Thereby, he neglects and obscures Western mining companies’ implication in the resource wars that have propped up authoritarian leaders in Zimbabwe. In “Zimbabwe: imperialism, hypocrisy, and fake...
Posters from the Alter-globalization movement →
Check out this collection of almost 300 radical posters from the global justice, anti-capitalist, alter-globalization movement over the past decade.
“Fists Up” - The Blow
»Carte du Monde Poétique«, 1968 by Marcel... →
Karl Marx' Capital in Lithographs →
- beautifully illustrated by Hugo Gellert (1934). Click through all the pages here.
(Thanks to Nate H. for the reference.)
Watch“Shut up, Mark Sanford” - Jon Stewart skewers the South Carolina governor for his self-righteous attempt to spin his affair as a romance novel. Is “bang fucking antelope” really a new Nickelodian show?
news from the Anomalous Wave- rector's office... →
Last night [7/5/09] 21 Italian students of the universities of Turin, Padua, Naples and Bologna have been arrested through a violent act of the Italian police. Sixteen students have been imprisoned, and other five have to stay under house arrest.
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According to the AP today (7/7/09), 36 activists have been arrested at anti-G8 protest in Rome.
The story of the monkeys of shitty island...
(from The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami):
“Do you know the story of the monkeys of the shitty island?” I asked Noboru Wataya.
He shook his head, with no sign of interest. “Never heard of it.”
“Somewhere, far, far away, there’s a shitty island. An island without a name. An island not worth giving a name. A shitty island with a shitty shape. On...
