July 2009
42 posts
“Forget that most of the pundits lambasting Facebook and Twitter are familiar...”
– + We Are All Writers Now (The Economist | Intelligent Life)
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WatchIn the introduction to his 13 volume, open source lecture series on Marx’s Das Kapital, the ever-brillz David Harvey recalls his first impressions of the United States upon arriving “F.O.B.” from England to Johns Hopkins in 1968, citing the Baltimore riots, Vietnam, and all other matters of insanity that plagued the country at that time as his gateway to Marx. Before digging in,...
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“The relationship between an artist’s work and attire should not take the...”
– Well put, Roger.
+ How Artists Must Dress (n+1)
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I recently discovered that the songs I most...
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The Yes Men: Fix The World "Identity Correction"... →
Good fun, Yes Men style.
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“Oh!”
Breeders Pod
1990
Classic.
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“The Communist Manifesto is often summarised by the very twitterable: “Workers of...”
– + A categorical imperative to twitter [Financial Times]
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Blogging for Book Deals →
The Rumpus picked up my piece from the Brooklyn Rail, “In Print We Trust.” Carrying on the conversation about — you guessed it — blogging for book deals.
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In Print We Trust →
“While media watchdogs fixate on the actual book deals—namely, on the dollar sum of the advance, as this is one form of online commerce that still amazes us—few pause to consider the books themselves. How strangely anachronistic is it (and yet, extraordinarily telling) that those who participate in perhaps the most monumental democratic exercise ever—and who do so daily, often for a...
Two Words: Track. Changes.
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Brains and Behavior: "Why You Can’t Keep Your Foot... →
“It’s one of the more frustrating aspects of human nature: The harder we try not to say or do or think something, the more likely we are to slip — and often at the worst possible time.”
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A Context-Free, Comment-Free Review Of... →
Excruciating.
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Will The Cat Above the Precipice Fall Down?
Slavoj Zizek
When an authoritarian regime approaches its final crisis, its dissolution as a rule follows two steps. Before its actual collapse, a mysterious rupture takes place: all of a sudden people know that the game is over, they are simply no longer afraid. It is not only that the regime loses its legitimacy, its exercise of power itself is perceived as an impotent panic reaction. We all...
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“Naturally, there is an NSFW variant of Look at This Fucking Hipster called Look...”
– Slate (via melissa)
That’s my girl …