May 2013
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“No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics Of Ambiguity
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Why Dictators Don’t Like Jokes →
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“Don’t google your name. Ever.
Don’t “search” for yourself
on anything that...”
– Andrea Gibson
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Queer experiences in Indonesia →
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Lucy Liu talks candidly about Hollywood racism →
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Survival of the... Nicest? →
A new theory of human origins says cooperation—not competition—is instinctive.
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“Laws: we know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for...”
– Pierre Joseph Proudhon
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“Love is the great intangible. In our nightmares, we can create beasts out of...”
– Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of Love
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“I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...”
– E. M. Forster
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Interview I did last night for anyone interested...
April 2013
31 posts
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“Culture does not make people. People make culture.”
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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On anarchism in the Philippines →
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“I learned about life from life itself. Love I learned in a single kiss.”
– Pablo Neruda
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Is graduate school a cult? →
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Academia's indentured servants →
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Performing artists get the gratification of applause and can actually see the immediate impact of their work on people, but it happens so SLOWLY, too slowly, for writers!
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There’s no difference between a socialist who celebrates Thatcher’s death and a capitalist who celebrates Chavez’s death. I’m so tired of leftists who end up becoming the mirror image of their own enemies. The capitalist death drive needs to be challenged not by an equal and opposite culture of death, but rather by a culture of life. We need subversion, not mere inversion.
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“We gotta make this sexy. I want us all to become ecolutionary renegades,...”
– Ron Finley, Guerrilla Gardener in South Central LA
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“See, I’m an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. Just like a...”
– Ron Finley, Guerrilla Gardener in South Central LA
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“Chance favors only the prepared mind.”
– Louis Pasteur
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“You can cut the flowers, but you can’t stop the spring.”
– Pablo Neruda
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Occupy Love →
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WatchRon Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
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WatchWasteland is an amazing documentary that I urge everyone to watch. It’s about a brilliant art-activism project in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Rape culture within the Left →
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Killer Coke →
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Important critique of Femen →
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“Autonomy is not a fixed, essential state. Like gender, autonomy is created...”
– subRosa Collective
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you...”
– Mark Twain
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I’m feeling a weird new feeling. My first academic publication from 2007 is now required reading for a history course at the University of California San Diego. I may be broke as hell, with nothing much to show for my years of toiling away at research and writing, but this is its own reward. I will take from this lonely scholarly life what I can.
March 2013
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Toronto declared "sanctuary city" for undocumented... →
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“Wealth that could be spread around ends up gold-plating the emperor’s toilet.”
– Tidal Communique No. 4, http://tidalmag.org/communique-4/
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“Commerce attempts to subjugate reality by naming and measuring everything in a...”
– Tidal Communique No. 4, http://tidalmag.org/communique-4/
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Tidal Communiqué No. 4
Source: http://tidalmag.org/communique-4/
Civilizations at their peak present curious spectacles. They ooze wealth and pride, produce fantastic art and technologies, all while shredding the foundations of their prosperity. Their citizens seem to believe they eclipse mundane restrictions of time and space. The monuments their predecessors have left in Rome, on Easter Island, in Egypt, in Venice,...
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Free Mending Library →
“Everyone is welcome. Everyone is welcome to bring something to be mended — and equally people are welcome to come and help mend. Those are the days that I love the most, when there’s a really wonderful balance — people coming to help mend, people sitting and telling stories, people bringing things to be mended. It’s nice when all of those things are happening at once”
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