April 2010
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BANAL NATIONALISM →
Why thinking in ‘national’ terms seems natural.
March 2010
43 posts
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“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other...”
– (via chicanainchoos) (via curate) (via fuckyeahtheorists)
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“As with most things in life, the truth is surely somewhere in between”
– Uffe Østergaard
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“I am the state”
– Louis XIV
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Want the Good Life? Your Neighbors Need it, Too |... →
timeforawakening:
We live in a world of deep inequality, and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. We in the rich world generally agree that this is a problem we ought to help fix—but that the real beneficiaries will be the billions of people living in poverty. After all, inequality has little impact on the lives of those who find themselves on top of the pile. Right?
Not exactly,...
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“I refuse to be a member of a ruling class that would have me as a member.”
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“The strategy of “eliminating the state” is back on the level of “let’s have...”
– Noam Chomsky (via newleft)
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“Capitalism won’t have a terminal crisis until we make it a terminal crisis.”
– David Harvey, at Left Forum 2010. (via newleft)
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WatchPigs and Social Reproduction
While I don’t particularly care about the breeding of pigs - or micro pigs, in general - at the 1:10 minute mark, the owner of this pig makes a rather insightful comment on social reproduction. Essentially, that pigs aren’t necessarily the dirty, muddy, creatures that we believe them to be, but rather, are influenced by their social world. Put pigs in a...
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Reefer Madness: Medical Marijuana Edition →
ignoring criminal assaults against growers.
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The Coming Barbarism | Adbusters Culturejammer... →
newleft:
next5min:
Unlike Gen Xers, many of whom found ways to express anticapitalist sentiment through subculture, Gen Y has nowhere to run or hide. All forms of cultural rebellion have long since been appropriated and integrated into the ideology of capital. Marketing firms and advertising agencies now enjoy an unprecedented relationship with the avant-garde, so much so that they’ve...
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“It’s weird enough living in a country where a man can legally own an arsenal of...”
– Matt Taibbi (via peterwknox, azspot) (via newleft)
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The Economists' New Clothes →
Adam Curtis explores why we still continue to use ‘economic speak’, regardless of their poor efforts of predicting the most recent crisis.
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Self-Delusion and the Lie of Lifestyle Activism... →
fyeahsocialism:
It serves our purposes well to lie to ourselves about the effects of lifestyle activism. In actual fact, many of us recycle and buy priuses and go to marches that have no coherent strategic aims behind them (but that allow us to hang out with other people like ourselves) because they are part of our social life . Buying a Prius, or biking to work instead of driving, or having a...
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“An end which requires unjustified means is no justifiable end.”
– Karl Marx, On Freedom of the Press (via newleft)
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fuckyeahtheorists:
All sociology worthy of the name is ‘historical sociology.’ It is, in Paul Sweezy’s excellent phrase, an attempt to write ‘the present as history.’ - C. Wright Mills (1959), The Sociological Imagination.
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“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again....”
– Samuel Beckett
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“What do people like Bill Gates do? First you grab all the money you can, 40, 50...”
– Slavoj Žižek
(link via Teach)
(via unburyingthelead)
(via fuckyeahtheorists)
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“Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting...”
– Douglas Adams (via but does it float) (via scudmissile)
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“Those in authority attempt to justify their rule over institutions by linking...”
– C. Wright Mills - The Sociological Imagination (1959).
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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution...”
– John F. Kennedy (via theyareasweare) (via timeforawakening)
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“If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences”
– w.i. thomas
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“As a side note, and before continuing with the real focus of my remarks, it has...”
– Tim Wise
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Greek Mess, Euromess, Western Nations Mess, World... →
