December 2011
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La Partita Imaginaria: Letter to ‘The Financial... →
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Student fees are being securitized and repackaged exactly like the toxic assets that triggered the latest economic collapse. Just as in 2008 ‘it was subprime mortgages; now it is subprime education‘
“Welcome to Broken-Hearted Airlines. Thank you for crashing and burning with us...”
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The Age Of Innocence
Ellen Olenska: Is fashion such a serious consideration? Newland Archer: Among those who have nothing more serious to consider.
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“There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free;”
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DSG - Ten growth markets for crisis →
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From the DSG think-tank: a short series of speculative projections for new territories of struggle and focuses for future ideological ruptures:
1 Anti-Usury Campaigns (#usury) This attitude, essentially a moral opposition not to capital but to speculation, finds its analogue in the softer and more popular end of the Occupy movement.
2 Nosterity (#nosterity) [It suggests] that...
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“Isn’t it funny how men always marry women who are easier and easier to...”
– Gigi, ‘The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee’
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“All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like...”
– Jean Rhys (via jessicabrokaw)
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From 'Tumble Home' by Amy Hempel
“I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table. This is easier, I think, when your life has been tipped over...
November 2011
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Noisy Alphabet by Tom Gauld
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