February 2012
36 posts
ROMAN DAVID ARE MY MIDDLE NAMES: Yesterday was a... →
romandavid:
Twelve o’clock: e-mail lands in my inbox. Boycott Workfare have been contacted by Newsnight asking for people to contribute to a piece about the coalition’s plans for the unemployed and how it’s all coming apart. I’d told them about my concerns about the Work Programme being used at my last…
“Necessity; the tyrant’s plea.”
– John Milton
PARTITA IMAGINARIA - TOP 15 RADICALS
Inspired by Geoff Mulgan’s list of the top 50 socio-techno-utopian-entrepreneur-o-radicals in today’s ‘Observer’ I have decided to compile my own list of the ‘15 Most Important Radicals’ in Europe today.
1) Charlie Gilmour - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFz33oWVTDE
2) Louki - the riot dog - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFd0hztEUWk
3) Lady Gaga...
Novara in Discussion with Dan Hind on Media Reform... →
Today #3
A publication by Through Europe.
Featuring articles by Franco Berardi Bifo, Federico Campagna, Amador Fernandez Savater, Paolo Mossetti, Aaron Peters, Robert Prouse.
Cover: Anna Galkina.
In English, Italian, Spanish. Freely available here.
10/11/10. By Keston Sutherland.
The police smack the people in Merrion Row, doing their jobs justice; at Millbank the windows are booted down, voiding reinforcement; the government boys look set to make solvency heroic; their genitals in plaster deck the halls like powerdrills; You walk from the Strand to Nelson, turn left at the corner into Whitehall; the police are instructed to ingratiate camerapersons, by ignoring them; the...
Notes On The New Housing Question: Endnotes 2.... →
Riot Polit-Econ By Khalid Qureshi Foundation and...
A Joint Report of the Khalid Qureshi Foundation and Chelsea Ives Youth Centre
In the post-riot, post festum maelstrom of witless reportage, bourgeois savagery and intellectual ineptitude, comrades have often felt it necessary to step into the public arena to reiterate some basic banalities. In the last few days, as the BBC has continued to broadcast to every looted plasma in the country...
““Communism can only be equated with planning to the extent to which it is...”
– (A. Negri, 1979)
By Strategy: Hidden Jobs: Prisonfare, Class,... →
by-strategy:
John Harris’ video on Ian Duncan Smith’s work programme is as depressingly as it is telling.
The obvious facts. Unemployment is at a systematic high (2,685,000), particularly among the young, not only in the United Kingdom, but globally, reaching 22.8% in Spain with nearly half young…
My LSE lecture notes 30/01/2012 →
The cold isn't all bad. 'Rimbaud' by WH Auden
Rimbaud The nights, the railway-arches, the bad sky, His horrible companions did not know it; But in that child the rhetorician’s lie Burst like a pipe: the cold had made a poet. Drinks bought him by his weak and lyric friend His senses systematically deranged, To all accustomed nonsense put an end; Till he from the lyre and weakness was estranged. Verse was a special illness of the ear;...
“The basic question: Is Facebook more like a newspaper or more like a factory?...”
– Alexander Galloway, from Facebook (via nsrnicek)
January 2012
64 posts
Jonathan Ford reviews "Kicking Off" in the... →
by-strategy:
paulmasonnews:
Once again reviewer (as with Ian Birrell in Observer) claims Bouazizi was “just an entrepreneur” and even claims large masses on streets of Greece and Spain “not anticapitalist”. I think this is an emerging genre of reviews. What you have to ask is why modern capitalism is making the perfectly normal entrepreneurial desires of slum dwellers and urban poor across the...
RECOMMENDED READZ
Not neccessarily my favourite books - but all germane for understanding the present condition and future possibilities in light of the global financial crisis.
1) Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
2) The Violence of Finance Capitalism by Christian Marazzi
3) Historical Capitalism by Immanuel Wallerstein
4) The Second Meditation by Fredrich Nietzsche
5) The Genealogy of Morality by Fredrich...
Escalate Collective 'Salt'
Escalate collective’s new text SALT is available to download
‘This piece, more extensive than our previous interventions, offers a history of the economic crisis of capitalist deferral particularly with reference to struggles in the United Kingdom’.
The IMF on the Road to Becoming the World's...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_drawing_rights
This is what a candid ruling class sounds like.... →
This is what a candid ruling class sounds like.... →
“There is probably no domain of man’s thinking or material activity that...”
– Georges Boulanger,
Dossier on Cybernetics: utopia or science of tomorrow in the world today, 1968.
