October 2011
15 posts
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“Videomatica is not dead. Guess where it’s moving? Zulu Records.”
Great compromise. It’s like a special little antique mall!
(On edit: my wife, Robin, suggested they should have a public pay phone in there, too.)
In search of...
Help! Know any (good) songs (or music more generally) with nautical themes? Particularly about being on the ocean, lost-at-sea, shipwrecked, etc.?
“Can people participate in the Habermasian public sphere and still preserve their...”
– Evgeny Morozov goes the fuck in on Public Parts, the latest from Self-Promoting Pseudo-Intellectual Twitter Blowhard Jeff Jarvis. (via marathonpacks)
Oh snappppppp. ITS ON.
Did y’all Internet folks know I’m a Habermasian? This despite Zizek’s undying hate of his philosophy.
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“While multiculturalism can accommodate the ideal of equality between most...”
– David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital : And the Crises of Capitalism. (via djalykhan)
Yup. Class is fundamental. This is pretty much why I feel so put off by the notion of basing my politics specifically around feminism, especially identity oriented feminism, as a focal point. Feminism is...
Tower of Sleep: lukesimcoe reblogged you: Cool... →
towerofsleep:
lukesimcoe reblogged you:
Cool idea… but flawed. We shared music files because they were small, and bandwith was scarce. We had been doing the same thing with other kinds of texts — documents, pictures, gifs — prior to the advent of Napster. The revolution was already under way, and…
lukesimcoe would probably know best about file sharing (including stealing and such) on...
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If Steve Jobs dies because of it, I guess there’s no cure for it. Sheesh.
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Government Orders YouTube To Censor Protest Videos →
lukesimcoe:
megasloth:
laborreguita:
industryrevealing:
In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the “free” Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also deleting search terms by...
20 yards of linen: Reply to AFM →
20yardsoflinen:
andrewfm said: I don’t understand why dialectical materialists think that contradiction inheres in reality. They never give an argument for it, just assertions with some sloppy examples.
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Yeah, as far as contradiction being an…
As far as reality is concerned, what about this for basic: something and nothing. I’m...
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Government Orders YouTube To Censor Protest Videos →
laborreguita:
industryrevealing:
In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the “free” Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also deleting search terms by government mandate.
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