Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.
a charming book by enrique vila-matas, consisting entirely of footnotes about writers of the No: that is, all the writers who have decided it was better – for whatever reason – not to write. fn 9) If Plato thought that life was a forgetting of the idea, Clément Cadou spent his whole life forgetting that he once had the idea … Read More
unicef’s online game this time: your goal is to help the Guinard family get an education and improve their lives.
because I’ve had constant access to multiple tvs lately, I’ve been watching quite a bit of cnn. amazing. actually, I’m not sure I’m supposed to be laughing so much when watching the news. no, I never really thought about “what jesus would REALLY do” when it comes to buying. the commercials about christian persecution in communist countries are great: “they … Read More
by robert d. kaplan two passages strike me, each within a page from one another. have been thinking lately of Belley’s lecture about corporate totalitarianism: when efficiency/rationality overrides all other values, individual liberties start to fray… “It’s nonsense to think that Americans are individualists,” Dennis Judd, an urban affairs professor at the University of Missouri’s St. Louis campus, told me. … Read More
Wednesday, 12 December, 3:00 p.m. — Yesterday it was penguins. Today it is snails. The complaint was that governments were moving at a snail’s pace in addressing climate change. And an update: the jackets and ties worn this morning have not lasted. By afternoon, most participants all looked like NGOs again. and here are some korean polar bears (CBC story … Read More
Paddington, the bear from Peru, will be arrested and interrogated over his immigration status in a book marking his 50th birthday. (BBC) He has no papers to prove his identity as his Aunt Lucy arranged for him to hide on a ship’s lifeboat from Peru when she went to live in the Home for Retired Bears in Lima.
sublation, expressivist, emancipatory, simpliciter, sustainably, identificatory. (words my spell-check does not like.)
thailand’s revered king (BBC).
The first public reaction to the idea of reactualizing Lenin is, of course, an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK – today, even on Wall Street, there are people who still love him: Marx the poet of commodities, who provided perfect descriptions of the capitalist dynamic; Marx of Cultural Studies, who portrayed the alienation and reification of our daily … Read More