March 2010
55 posts
“Nothing can unravel, by the sole magic of the transference, the real...”
– Félix Guattari (via pop-nihilism)
The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth... →
President Ronald Reagan officially declared the current drug war in 1982, when drug crime was declining, not rising. From the outset, the war had little to do with drug crime and nearly everything to do with racial politics. The drug war was part of a grand and highly successful Republican Party strategy of using racially coded political appeals on issues of crime and welfare to attract poor and...
“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice...”
– Audre Lorde (via typicaltaylor) (via sexismandthecity)
“[e]very time desire is betrayed, cursed, uprooted from its field of immanence,...”
– Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (via une-mort-existentielle) (via pop-nihilism)
Die-in at Minnesota Governor Pawlenty’s office →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
St. Paul, MN - Tombstones and bodies filled the halls outside the Governor’s office here, March 23, as participants in a ‘die-in’ demonstrated against the effects of Governor Pawlenty’s proposed…
U of Florida: Cop shoots African grad student in... →
93 farmers commit suicide in Adilabad district →
In a small district of Andhra Pradesh, India, with a population of about 2 million, 93 farmers committed suicide between August and December of last year. This article from Elaan, the monthly organ of the New Socialist Movement, explains that the “majority of the farmers who took the extreme step had taken large amounts of loans from private usurers and micro-finance operators at high...
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Lady Gaga’s Lesbian Phallus →
a funny, insightful essay on such questions as: “Is post-structuralist feminism secretly taking over the world through pop culture? Is Judith Butler pulling the strings of a nation’s impressionable youth through film and video?”
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Talking Your Way to Happiness: Well-being Is... →
amyjanebexplainsall:
Am tempted to say ‘well, duh!’, but I guess it’s worth being reminded just how important it is to have regular social interaction.
PhD students take note: don’t isolate yourself!
psychotherapy:
…Greater well-being was related to spending less time alone and more time talking to others: The happiest participants spent 25% less time alone and 70% more time talking than the...
“A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature...”
– Donna J. Haraway in A Cyborg Manifesto (via andrewdornon)
