“…with production one never knows where one is…” BERTOLT BRECHT
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39 of the 40 tricks
1.2.3…40 and tada! was an exercise in appropriating folk wisdom for high theory. Or to put it more precisely, the idea was to show how folk sayings/proverbs –ostensibly superstitious, quaint or banal– can harbor valuable insights which can only be appreciated by means of conceptual tools not typically associated with folk wisdom. In 1.2.3…40 and [...]
Written by Keman Recel
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The market of exceptions and Michael Moore’s Sicko
I saw Michael Moore’s Sicko on the last day that it was showing in Northampton. Sitting by myself in the basement of Pleasant Street Theater, I had nothing better to do before movie began than to listen to the two elderly couples ahead of me discussing what they had heard about the film, their [...]
Written by bigbadbull
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commercial crusades
Illegal Attacks is the new single from Ian Brown (of the Stone Roses fame) featuring Sinead O’Connor in the backing vocals. The video and the lyrics are below.
So what the fuck is this UK
Written by Saint ymM
Gunnin with this US of A
In Iraq and Iran and in Afghanistan
Does not a day go by
Without the Israeli Air Force
Fail to [...]
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Teoman Aktürel (1932-2007)
[Teoman Aktürel, poet and translator, passed away on the 13th of July, 2007. His formal education is in French Language and Literature and Economics. He was a family friend. While I was in high school, for a while every Sunday, before going to grandma for lunch, I would go to his small [...]
Written by Saint ymM
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Refugees…Until When?
1 refugee camp, 20 kids, 11 villages, 8 of which are only remnants, or not even that. These are the stats of the Birthright Replugged trip that I helped run a few weeks ago. I’m not sure where to even begin to explain the significance of this trip.
Written by viola swamp
The kids are all under the [...]
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Through A Glass Darkly
A few days ago, at a table, where ymM was also sitting, I dared to argue… it was a small gathering of four of us after having watched Cuaron’s recent “Children of Men”; we were, you know, chatting on film and philosophy (how the latter shall be handled in the former), strangely lost somewhere around [...]
Written by j.b.
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humiliating work and the law
i’m trying to think through some issues raised by wilson v. monarch paper co., 939 f.2d 1138 (5th cir. 1991) and similar cases. in this case, a jury found, and the court system upheld on appeal, that the vice president of a company was entitled to millions of dollars in compensation for intentional infliction of [...]
Written by Disgruntled Goat
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Health Care Reform Debate and Feminine Sexuation: Passage to the Act
(Dear reader, sorry for the delay in posting–this summer has been one long emotional roller coaster ride so far.)
Written by bigbadbull
Part 3 of “Health Care and the Community Economy: Towards an Ethics of Surplus and Geography of Sufficiency.”
Feminine Sexuation and Health Care Reform
So far we have learned what it is like to fail in relation [...]
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labor unions in the U.S. fight for apartheid!
a recent story in the forward reports that leaders of american labor unions are stepping up to support israeli apartheid by undermining opposition to it by british unions.
Written by Disgruntled Goat
many union leaders have signed on to a letter by the jewish labor committee bashing* the growing movement for anti-apartheid divestment, boycotts and sanctions by the british labor [...]
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academy fights: round 2 to the fascists
this past june, professor norman finkelstein was denied tenure by depaul university thanks to a concerted effort by alan dershowitz. yesterday, the university of colorado fired tenured professor ward churchill thanks to an effort by the horowitz-ACTA crowd.
Written by Disgruntled Goat
i remember long ago reading an essay by stephen king in which he instructed his readers how to [...]
