March 2012
PAINTING A REVOLUTION: Let us paint a new... →
paintingarevolution:
One of those things that frustrate me is the fact that anarchist collectives in this country don’t really do much to make a bigger difference. I mean, hey, they do a lot of action, really, like food not bombs, gatherings, gigs for a cause, pamphlets, music, art, etc. But it’s so small a fracture…
Ideas and Opinions.: Greece, Spain, Italy, and... →
authenticiouslycounterfeit:
ftm-communist:
I have claimed at least once before, if not multiple times, that we are facing a “revolutionary situation” to use Lenin’s words. Before this point the economic and political systems which have struggled in a dialectic against the people at a…
“One of the most incredible things is to watch the President of United States...”
– Glenn Greenwald on Two-Tiered U.S. Justice System, Obama’s Assassination Program & the Arab Spring (via socialuprooting)
limit experience: The Losers of History →
fuggbug:
Review of Hermeneutic Communism by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala (Columbia University Press, 2011)
At the end of In Defence of Lost Causes, Žižek calls for a return to the egalitarian terror of the Stalinist regime as the only option for circumventing the imminent expiration of…
limit experience: return to the street - cfp →
fuggbug:
27-28 June 2012
Goldsmiths, University of London
A two day conference exploring the shifting role of the street as discourse and real physical space in the context of contemporary culture and politics.
Identity formation and public debate do not simply occur online or through…
US WAR ON IRAN: "THE WORST MISTAKE IN AMERICAN... →
High court throws out human gene patents →
The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling allowing human genes to be patented, a topic of enormous interest to cancer researchers, patients and drug makers.
The court overturned patents belonging to Myriad Genetics Inc. of Salt Lake City on two genes linked to increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
Myriad’s BRACAnalysis test looks for mutations on the breast cancer...
“[Marx] writes, “It is, therefore, in his fashioning of the objective that man...”
– Amy Wendling - Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation
Chapter 1: Karl Marx’s Concept of Alienation; p16.
“It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the...
Ideas and Opinions.:... →
reinventionoftheprintingpress:
Multicultural reference masks the centrality of race and racism to neo-liberalism. Race continues to permeate capitalism’s economic and social processes, organizing the hyperextraction of surplus value from racialized bodies and naturalizing a system of…
Ideas and Opinions.:... →
reinventionoftheprintingpress:
…in order to comprehend neoliberalism’s political and cultural effects, it must be conceived of as more than a set of free market economic policies that dismantle welfare states and privatize public services in the North, make wreckage of efforts at…
Ideas and Opinions.:... →
reinventionoftheprintingpress:
Many historical supporters of black struggles now argue that liberals and leftists must put aside the obsessions with race questions, since by aligning themselves with antiracist reform, they have done little more than alienate a silent majority of Americans…
“[M]an and nature are not like two opposite terms confronting each other – not...”
– Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus (via oscillating-infinity)
“There’s no fucking future for anyone but the privileged anymore, education needs...”
– Jonny ‘Itch’ Fox (via lukeeardley)
Rice University conference on Communist... →
“Let’s talk about socialism. I think it’s very important to bring back the idea...”
– Howard Zinn (via emphysemainacan)
Youtube caves under government pressure.
bornforhardluck:
Yeah, Youtube complied to British government request to censor protest footage. Way to go…
