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Tag Archives: Slavoj Zizek
consciousness III, IV, V, …
…Nothing will ever be as nice again, or as good, as it was when one was seventeen. The paradoxes and contradictions of the post-industrial “occupy” culture, the anti-one-percenters, is a kind of resignation and despair that so many pleasures are … Continue reading
hindsight sagas:waiting for surprises
…Indeed, for a historian who can establish himself in the past and not in the future, the world’s development is full of surprises: in religion, in politics, in social attitudes, there are sudden, almost electrifying, shifts and changes that would, … Continue reading
cyclical or structural?
Technological unemployment… Is our current unemployment malaise of cyclical or structural nature? According to Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz the answer is more stimulus, more government printed money washing through the economy as if at a luxury spa where we … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged andrew McAfee author, Andrew McAfee MIT, Erik Brynjolfsson, GEA farm technology, Jeff Burnstein robotics, Joseph Stiglitz, Kiva robotics, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Noam Chomsky, Paul Krugman, Slavoj Zizek, steve kroft, technological unemployment, thomas friedman, thomas friedman new york times
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terrorism: like Russian roulette
Evno Azev,( Yevno Azef) according to Roy Medvedev, particularly enjoyed proving to himself his ability to outwit everyone else. He savored the secret power of life or death he held over his comrades by being able to periodically betray a … Continue reading
terrorism: one fuse at a time
…Though there was an attempt to kill the czar as early as 1866, the first generation of Russian terrorists generally confined their activities to executing traitors or police spies in their own ranks and to reprisals for the tortures, floggings, … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Alexander Berkman, Andrei Zhelyabov, Emma Goldman, extremist group Will of the People, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Lacan, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Narodnaia Volia, Slavoj Zizek, Sophia Perovskaia, Turgenev
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terrorism: feeding the resentment
…Every act of terrorism begins, in the eyes of its practitioners, as an instance of counterterrorism. The most murderous cases of terrorism in this century have ostensibly been counterterroristic measures by the police in Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany; and … Continue reading
fanon: still finding edge
…Fanon died of double pneumonia on December 6, 1961, six months before the liberation of Algeria. He was thirty-six years old. His body was flown back to Tunis with Ollie Iselin, the CIA operative, who attended his funeral. He was … Continue reading
fanon: stoking the flames of freedom
Frantz Fanon and the Wretched of the Earth. A prophet scorned. Fifty years after Frantz Fanon’s death, there is still an audience for this theorist of revolution. Question is, are the ideas relevant in an era of post-modernism?… …But prophets … Continue reading
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Tagged angela davis, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Fanon Wrtetched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon, franz fanon, Hannah Arendt, Huey Newton, Jean Genet, Jean Genet Black Panthers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Fulford, Slavoj Zizek, The Black Panther Movement
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fanon: wretched by birth
Frantz Fanon. the theorist of revolution and a prophet scorned. Dead for the past fifty years, there is still an audience… …The peasant, says Fanon, thinks in terms of armed struggle, of taking the land back from the foreigner, of … Continue reading