May 2013
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Martin Shaw on the concept of Civil Society. →
May 14th
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The Philosopher's Stone: I'VE BEEN THINKING →
Marx’s seven propositions.
May 13th
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May 13th
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May 13th
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May 7th
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May 7th
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May 7th
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May 3rd
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A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse... →
May 2nd
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“It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to...”
– Henri Poincaré
May 1st
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“Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic...”
– David Graeber (via azspot)
May 1st
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April 2013
25 posts
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Apr 29th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 19th
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(audio) 13 Foucault lectures on "Truth, Discourse,... →
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was an enormously influential French philosopher who wrote, among other things, historical analyses of psychiatry, medicine, the prison system, and the function of sexuality in social organizations.
Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 15th
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Sugar Shack.
Apr 14th
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RBC and the iGate scandal. Or, in other words, the contradiction between TNCs and national systems of property relations (‘rights’).
Apr 12th
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“Investors don’t go down to the television studio and make sure that the local...”
– Secret, Lies and Democracy - Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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“In a way it is even humiliating to watch coal-miners working. It raises in you a...”
– George Orwell (via azspot)
Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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“Whether the mask is labeled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the...”
– Simone Weil (via azspot)
Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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“If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with...”
– David Graeber (via azspot)
Apr 7th
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In History Departments, It’s Up With Capitalism →
A new generation of historians is focusing on capitalism and the bosses, bankers and brokers who run the economy.
Apr 7th
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“Capitalism is a system of relationships, which go from inside to out, from...”
– Franz Kafka (via uxxr)
Apr 5th
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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March 2013
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Mar 30th
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Mar 26th
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“[C]apital - and the capitalist is merely capital personified and functions in...”
– Karl Marx - Capital, Vol. 3 - in essence it always remains forced labour - no matter how much it may seem to result from free contractual agreement… Capitalism is coercive, my Austrian friends. (via voicesofmiddleearth)
Mar 25th
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Economist Richard Wolff joins Bill Moyers to... →
Mar 24th
Noam Chomsky Quotes: What is the point of arguing... →
noam-chomsky: “The most libertarian positions accept the same view,” he answers. “That there are instincts, basic conditions of human nature that lead to a preferred social order. In fact, if you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally…
Mar 23rd
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South Park Shows Class Consciousness and Privilege... →
Mar 22nd
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“This is one of the fundamental issues with politics since the beginning of...”
– Gael Garcia Bernal.
Mar 22nd
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Mar 10th
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Mar 8th
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Mar 5th
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Austerity, Italian Style →
The country is trapped between comics and delusional Eurocrats.
Mar 4th
February 2013
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Feb 27th
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Feb 26th
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“It is obvious that this school of writing is not what it is because of the...”
– H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills - Preface to  ”From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology” discussing Weber’s writing style. I think this is going to be put amongst my slides for my first sociological theory tutorial in case people complain about the writing style of those discussed.  While not ignoring...
Feb 22nd
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