posts tagged ‘capitalism’

Readings

7 September 2010 • readings
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• Medicina tradicional china [leer]
Daniel Reid. Ediciones Urano. 1999.

• Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
Colin Ward. Oxford University Press. 2004.

• The Laws of Simplicity
John Maeda. The MIT Press. 2006.

• A User’s Guide to Détournement [read]
Guy Debord & Gil J Wolman. 1956.

• On Found Poetry (A FOUND INTRODUCTION) [read]
John Robert Colombo
From Open Poetry, (Ronald Gross & George Quasha, eds., 1973)

• A Day in the Life of a Musician [read]
Erik Satie

• Dead and Gone
Charlaine Harris. 2009.

The ultimate nightmare of democracy

4 September 2010 • out of context
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“Indeed, why should there be any need for linguistic symbols, if everybody, rather than being locked into a “prison-house of language” (Jameson), will happily live in the ultimate nightmare of democracy — the single mental space which is shared by everybody, and where every communicative act is always ideal (Habermas).”

The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich

Modern political terrorism on a indiscriminate scale

30 August 2010 • out of context
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“(…) modern political terrorism on a indiscriminate scale is the monopoly of goverments and is directed at civilian populations.”

“Bakunin claimed that there were three routes of scape from the miseries of life, two of them illusory and one real. The first two were the bottle and the church, ‘debauchery of the body or debauchery of the mind; the third is social revolution’.”

Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Colin Ward

Globalización

7 August 2010 • out of context
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“En un mundo unificado, no es posible exiliarse”.

Panegírico by Guy Debord

Self Portrait as a Drowned Man

25 July 2010 • outer
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“This photograph, shot in 1840 and titled Self Portrait as a Drowned Man, is not of a drowned man, and if it had been it would be far less interesting or important. This humble image, so far as anyone knows, can claim all of the following honorifics- First instance of intentional photographic fakery. First photographic practical joke. First use of a photograph as propaganda / protest. And, quite possibly, a result of the world’s first reliable photographic process, direct positive or otherwise.” [read complete text at the nonist]

Hypnotisé par la production et le confort

25 July 2010 • out of context
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“Une maladie mentale a envahi la planète: la banalisation. Chacun est hypnotisé par la production et le confort — tout-à-l’égoût, ascenseur, salle de bains, machine à laver.”

Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau by Gilles Ivain

Watchings

16 April 2010 • watchings
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• Simplicité volontaire et décroissance (2007) [watch]
Jean-Claude Decourt

• The IT Crowd. Series 1-3 (2006-2008)

• Full Frontal (2002)
Steven Soderbergh

• Innocent Blood (1992)
John Landis

• Footprints (1992)
Bill Morrison

• The Bats (1998)
Jim Trainor

• C’mon Babe (1988)
Sharon Sandusky

• Swamp (1971)
Nancy Holt & Robert Smithson

• Hyas et sténorinques (1927)
Jean Painlevé

• Science Friction (1959)
Stan Vanderbeek

• Historia Naturae (Suita) (1967)
Jan Svankmajer

• Crossing the Great Sagrada (1924)
Adrian Brunel

• Supermâché, aire de pique-nique (2008)
Laurent Sfar & Jean Guillaud

Mental Colonization

21 March 2010 • out of context
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“La publicité (…) c’est la plus grande entreprise de colonisation mentale.”

Serge Latouche in Simplicité volontaire et décroissance [watch]