December 2008
idannodoyou:
If distinguished from hypermodernity, supermodernity is a step beyond the ontological emptiness of postmodernism and relies upon a view of plausible truths. Where modernism focused upon the creation of great truths (or what Lyotard called “master narratives” or “metanarratives”), postmodernity is intent upon their destruction (deconstruction). In contrast supermodernity does not...
Summer Heights High
streeter:
I meant to write something about this show earlier but every week I decided to put it off. I was waiting for a bad episode, a bad moment, anything to show that everyone involved in the production was human. None came.
This is probably the best comedy I have seen since the British Office. I find that what sets something like Summer Heights High or The Office apart from other...
Jewish Voice For Peace - Statement on Gaza Attacks →
‘Jewish Voice for Peace joins millions around the world, including the 1,000 Israelis who protested in the streets of Tel Aviv this weekend, in condemning ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza. We call for an immediate end to attacks on all civilians, whether Palestinian or Israeli.
Israel’s slow strangulation of Gaza through blockade has caused widespread suffering to the 1.5 million...
Justice after Bush: Prosecuting an outlaw... →
‘Americans may wish to avoid what is necessary. We may believe that concerns about presidential lawbreaking are naive. That all presidents commit crimes. We may pretend that George W. Bush and his senior officers could not have committed crimes significantly worse than those of their predecessors. We may fear what it would mean to acknowledge such crimes, much less to punish them. But...
Dionysos and wine
nociva:
noumenia:
“Three kraters only do I propose for sensible men, one for health, the second for love and pleasure and the third for sleep; when this has been drunk up, wise guests depart for home. The fourth krater is mine no longer, but belongs to hubris; the fifth to shouting; the sixth to revel; the seventh to black eyes; the eighth to summonses; the ninth to bile; and the tenth to...
The neighborhood bully strikes again →
Once again, Israel’s violent responses, even if there is justification for them, exceed all proportion and cross every red line of humaneness, morality, international law and wisdom. What began yesterday in Gaza is a war crime and the foolishness of a country. History’s bitter irony: A government that went to a futile war two months after its establishment - today nearly everyone acknowledges as...
mabelmoments: Bob Dylan - Masters of War
Let me...
“Class power is, in itself, evasive because it is a social relation that eludes...”
– David Harvey, Limits to Capital, introduction to the 2006 Verso edition. [via] (via anthropophagous)
the wealth can continue flowing upwards. however, there will be a point when those at the bottom will no longer tolerate it. it will be time to take to the streets.
i believe it’s only a...
politics on tumblr
i had a feeling when i posted today about the Israeli attacks on Gaza that i might lose some followers. sure enough, i’ve already lost one. i know who it was. and i know that i was unfollowed because what i was posting seemed ‘unsympathetic’ to Israel.
i don’t care what country you are. what religion you are. who you are: this type of attack is terrorism. it’s...
Not hatin', just sayin'
johnbrissenden:
langer:
I love a good popularity contest as much as the next guy, but I’ll be sitting out the first annual Tumblr Awards out of protest that I can’t cast a vote for Mills in the category of “Best Original Content/Editorials.”
All this despite the fact that his not being nominated spared me the inevitable paralysis in the voting booth induced by a choice between him and Magic...
