January 2010
46 posts
“The things you own end up owning you.”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via kari-shma) (via nihilistidealist)
Securing Disaster in Haiti -- by Peter Hallward →
lost world - ‘capitalism is the...
University of Minnesota Workers and Students Rally... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Minneapolis, MN - More than 75 workers, students and community supporters rallied at Morrill Hall, the central administration building here, Jan. 21, to oppose attempts by President Bruininks and…
I was at this rally. My friend Sri gave a rousing speech.
This is one of my favorite songs from last year,...
Our role in Haiti's plight: If we are serious... →
article by Peter Hallward in the Guardian. (fyi, he’s a brilliant marxist scholar)
also, read his 2004 essay Option Zero in Haiti in the New Left Review
and, his excellent 2008 book, Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment
‘Stupid Wild’ - Gucci Mane (ft. Lil...
Racist U.S. commentators slander Haiti →
From Fox to New York Times, blaming the victims.
(via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
I let out a cry, as if I'd heard everybody I... →
a powerful response by a Haitian member of the Arcade Fire to the Haiti situation, highlighting the social production of the conditions that enabled this disaster through centuries of colonial relations.
One Dimensional Woman by Nina Power | (Book review... →
I’m excited about this book, One Dimensional Woman, because I heard the author, Nina Power, give an awesome talk about it on Friday at the Historical Materialism conference in NYC. It’s a critique of up-beat feminists and a reconstruction of feminist thought into a more rigorous, anti-capitalist form.
Here’s a full blurb:
Where have all the interesting women gone? If the...
Gucci Mane - ‘Lemonade’
WatchAziz’s hilarious impersonation of R. Kelly on Kimmel
Watchazizisbored:
Aziz Ansari on the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien
I told my story about buying sheets on Conan. A taste from my new special Intimate Moments from a Sensual Evening debuting Sunday at 10pm on Comedy Central.
Digg it
hilarious! - “You didn’t think I was gonna count that sheet?”
The Americanization of Mental Illness →
Check out this excerpt on how the American biomedical-academic industry has promoted globally a ‘brain disease’ view of mental illness, which legitimates the pharmaceutical industry’s selling ‘cures’ for those ‘diseases’ (— from an excellent article by Ethan Watters at the NYT):
EVEN WHEN THE underlying science is sound and the intentions...
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multiple tumblrs for my multiple subjectivities
the biggest lesson i learned last year was to stop holding onto my mythical view of my self as a unified, whole individual. instead, i’ve learned to embrace the fractured character of my self - a conjuncture of multiple, partial subjectivities that are always changing through encounters with the world. thanks to tumblr’s versatility, i can now take a more carefully differentiating...
Squatters Take on the Creative Class: Who Has the... →
“Cars are already being set on fire in Hamburg every week by anonymous perpetrators. Recently a police station was attacked with Molotov cocktails, a first in postwar German history, and even police cars were set on fire.”
a birthday party band - “Happy Song (about...
Watch‘Ce sont des Hommes’ - a powerful documentary on the Calais migrant camps and No Borders (parts in French and English).
