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Bradley Manning: Wikileaks whistleblower
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Bono, Frontman for the Rich?
Harry Browne will launch his new book, The Frontman: Bono (In the Name of Power), in conversation with author Dan Hancox on Friday 14th June at Rough Trade East.
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Nancy Fraser
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Annette Fuentes
"‘Zero-tolerance' policies funnel students into prisons." -
Franco Moretti
Franco Moretti teaches Literature at Stanford, where is the Director of the Literary Lab. He is...
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Owen Jones
"A work of passion, sympathy and moral grace." Dwight Garner, New York Times -
Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Professor of South Asian History at Trinity... -
Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of the peace group CODEPINK and the international human rights...
Blog
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Focus on Guiterrez's Memoir as Immigration Continues to Make Headlines
To Sin Against Hope, the political memoir of former Arizona Senate Leader Alfredo Gutierrez, continues to garner positive press even as immigration remains a contentious topic in the news.
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"This courage...has transformed Turkish politics" Tariq Ali offers solidarity with Taksim Gezi Square demonstrators
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Sixth installment of Racecraft podcast with Karen Fields
Karen E. Fields, author of Racecraft: The Soul of Ineqaulity in American Life, was interviewed in dialogue with Dr. Willene Johnson on the sixth installment of the Racecraft dialogue series for the Academic & the Artist radio show. They discuss the political dimensions of Nina Simone’s music, the various dimensions of ideological power, and the negotiation of race even in the most personal relationships.
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Turkish Police attack civilians near Gezi Park and Taksim Sq.
We received this Sunday morning:
Dear friends all over the world, please share this,
Today, following Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's extremely sectarian, separatist, and factious speech in Ankara, around 9 PM, the Turkish police started attacking thousands of people who were having dinner at the Gezi Park and Taksim square. There are kids of 4-5 years old, mothers, and old people among those who are under gas and pressurised water attack. According to reports, police isn't allowing journalists to report on or take pictures from Gezi Park. They are also using pressurised water to attack businesses such as the famous Divan Hotel that opened its doors to protestors running away. People are saying that there are thousands wounded inside the hotel. People formed a human chain in front of the hotel to prevent police to attack. Another report says that people cannot leave the hotel because police is arresting anyone that is seen leaving. There are also unconfirmed reports that police has shut down the metro and boats between Asia and Europe to stop people from joining with the rest. Another report says that there is a jammer in the area to prevent TV stations' broadcast. Hundreds have been wounded. There are a lot of missing kids, or kids who have been separated from their families. Protestors are fighting with police in Sıraselviler, Cihangir, Harbiye, and most likely around Dolmabahçe and Maçka. People call what is going on tonight a total brutality, a real savagery. What we are seeing is an ugly war where only one side has weapons.
A Turkish Bookseller
Discussions
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Has anyone else read this book?
The comments seem like none of those people have ever read this book - yes, including Mr. Jones. I'm not even thirty pages in and I have learned nothing, except that the cartoon is like vaudeville, and that Felix was awesome. (I've read Felix: The Twisted Tale of the World's Most Famous Cat, and I'm sorry to say, it was a much better read than this.)He claims to start in 1928 - and yet talks about nothing but the 19th century for a good two pages. The first chapter is a waste of pages and words.The reason I'm bringing this up is because I'm attempting to write a book on the history of American animation. The books I have found are awful. If anyone could help me find either books pertaining to this subject or could point me in the right direction, I'd be forever indebted. I took this book from the library assuming it would be the best thing I've ever read pertaining to this subject. -
For philosophy, framing the phenomenological gift aligns an eidetic point that begins to bracket in Nothingness, which may or may not give rise to the Encounter. It is a matter of thinking about contingency. The primacy of thinking about contingency is simply the facticity of existing there within the Unconscious and the ether of unreal atoms—parallelism ad nausea. “The world is a ‘gift’ that we have been given,” Althusser elucidated, “the ‘fact of the fact’ that we have not chosen, and it ‘opens up’ before us in the facticity of its contingency, and even beyond this facticity, in what is not merely an observation, but a ‘being-in-the-world’ that commands all possible Meaning.” Opening this gift does frame “being-in-the-world.” There is the possibility of meaning and the meaning of the possibility—there is an effect of fictional subjectivity. There are effects stemming from the facticity of this very contingency of being-in-the-world. It is an eidetic effect as philosophical effect. Philosophy postulates eidetic points. As materialist portrait, nothingness is nothing but the theoretical understanding of non-materiality--the original of Being-- and hence there is a retroactive excursion, more or less, that may or may not find nothingness as a material object that is idyllically graced by the Philosophical Void.
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Not new. not a review by Marx.
These translations are not, as is alleged here, "new". Hanfi translated them 40 years ago. The review "Luther between Strauss and Feuerbach", quoted from here, has been known not to be by Marx for almost as long. See MECW Vol. 1, 1975.