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'Remember that we’ve always been told that free markets and free people go hand in hand? That was a lie. It turns out that the most efficient delivery system for capitalism is actually a communist-style police state, fortressed with American “homeland security” technologies, pumped with “war on terror” rhetoric.’-Naomi Klein
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Antonio Negri was denied a visa for entry to Japan, evidently based on political accusations surrounding his alleged relationship with the Italian Red Brigades in the late 1970s.
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Mar 21st, 2008 | NEW YORK -- "A federal immigration official who was
recorded demanding sex from a young Colombian woman in exchange for a
green card was arrested on corruption charges, prosecutors said Friday."
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As the United States congress debates the FISA bill, or more importantly - the retroactive immunity for telecom companies currently under consideration, the surveillance society is continually strengthened and a police state expanded. And while it seems that the government and telecoms are immune from law, above law, and therefore sovereign - a study released last week says that 1% (actually 1 in 99.1) of their subjects [Americans] are in fact in violation of law and currently in prison. |
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Audio Popup (embedded below fold) for Douglas Rushkoff's Lecture, Thursday, Sept 24, 2009 from 7:30-9:30pm |
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As reported on the sci-fi blog io9 (part of the Gawker brand), Amazon.com has run into some opposition now that the fact that many books which deal with same-sex themes have had their sales rank removed has caught the attention of Twitter users. They have labelled the move "AmazonFail." (updated yet again)
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Thomas Horn's book, Nephilim Stargates: The Year 2012 and the Return of the Watchers, warns that genetic engineering may allow the 'Giants' described in the Genesis creation story to rise again.
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In the context of the US conflict in Vietnam 1968 is predominantly remembered for the Tet Offensive, which marked the beginning of both spring and the largest northern offensive in southern Vietnam. For the US government, the offensive coincided with increased opposition to the war at home, heightened expectations, and strategic miscalculations, all of which would ultimately turn global popular opinion against American involvement. A story that is often overlooked however is the internal struggle occurring in “southern Vietnam”. |
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Geoff Nunberg reports that the metadata for the works in Google Books' online library—the means to finding books in the first place—has been seriously mis-managed.
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Thomas Frank has announced that The Baffler will come back to life in the fall of 2009. |
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Editor B., of the long-lived online television show (perhaps the first), ROX (on BCAT in Bloomington, IN), has recently posted an audio clip of a discussion of ROX and the whole internet 'thing' from a "drive-time radio show in St. Louis" in 1995: ROX on KSD FM.
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As reported in the London Times, the Cologne city archive was destroyed on Tuesday, March 3, 2009, when the building unexpectedly collapsed. The archive housed one-of-a-kind documents—such as manuscripts by Marx, letters by Hegel, documents from Heinrich Böll, and continuous Cologne town council minutes reaching back to 1376—many of which have no known copies. Brian Leiter has a link for anyone who happens to have saved scans of the documents or who can offer assistance.
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The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics has now made articles from the latest issues available for free in PDF format (the default language for articles is English). |
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A new Australian publisher, re.press, dedicated to publishing works in philosophy, has adopted the Open-Access standard and publishes as many of their books as possible as free, downloadable .PDF files under an Open Access copyright, while simultaneously publishing them as physical, print-on-demand books, with titles ranging from new translations of Hegel to works by and about Alain Badiou.
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Manuel DeLanda has a short post, "Opportunities and Risks", on the dynamics of animal perception of the environment on Lebbeus Woods' blog.
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Slavoj Zizek discusses the war in Iraq, Bush, the War on Terror as well as American democracy in a two-part interview.
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Photographer Martin John Callanan presents a vertical slide of striking photographs taken after a good packing snow led to many ice balls being made in Victoria Park (UK) over Feb. 4-5, 2009.
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The artist and professor Steve Kurtz, who has been fighting charges of bioterrorism for years, has now seen the federal indictment against him dismissed by a judge. Story from the Progressive magazine | CAE Defense Fund. The government has until May 21, 2008, to appeal the dismissal.
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Life Before Death is a sombre series of portraits taken by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta of people before and after they had died. The work consists of recorded interviews with the subjects in their final days and their thoughts about living and dying. The exhibit runs from April 9-May 18 at the Wellcome Trust in London. |
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This years Greener Gadgets Design Competition showcased Jim Mielke’s wireless blood-fueled “tattoo” - a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen that operates as a cell phone display, with the potential for 3G video calls, visible through skin. It's powered by a fuel cell that converts the energy found in blood with a non-toxic substance used to draw electrons from glucose.
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The New York Times reports that a team of scientists puts the current price of regenerating a wooly mammoth at $10 million.
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There is water ice on Mars within reach of the Mars Phoenix Lander, NASA scientists announced Thursday. |
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A recent article in Wired, "Sorry, Absinthe Trippers: Scientists Say You're Just Really Drunk" (April 29, 2008) claims that a new study finds no basis for 'absinthism.'
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The European Commission has awarded a grant of €2.75 million to project SEMAINE which aims to build a Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) system, which will engage with users by perceiving their facial expression, gaze, and voice. |
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