havemehavana
Flag-waving humanist, free-range commie, some-time writer.
I am nice to people, cross roads to cuddle dogs, hug trees, kiss books, spill pints, make faces, dance weird. Being naked is fun, even if it's just your feet. I've got that same attention-span problem you've got. Learning is fun, thinking critically is good, everything is interesting. Analysis beats knowledge.
Particular loves: all the Arts, anthropology, all the science, space, philosophy, comedy
Current telly loves: Mad Men, The Walking Dead, Boardwalk Empire, Game Of Thrones
Click for my sort of anal list of films I saw in 2012
The owl is by Picasso.
(There is no longer an owl here.)
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~ Solidarity With Pussy Riot!!!
SOLIDARITY WITH PUSSY RIOT!!!
free download of pussy riot’s “putin has pissed himself!”
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~ The Revolt of the Salaried Bourgeoisie | Slavoj Žižek | London Review of Books
Zizek’s latest bit, responding to Hardt and Negri’s Multitude. On the privatisation of ‘general intellect’, China and anti-capitalist protests, amongst other things.
~ DSG - Ten growth markets for crisis
SELECTED SUMMARY
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 to complain and dissent is equivalent to a moral failing for being unable to endure with stoicism.
3 Social Democracy as the New Utopia (#labourutopians) What built and sustained the welfare state was a model of social-democratic political organisation which simply does not exist anymore.
4 Hey! Let’s not go to work today! (#internstrikenow) How might an organisation based around the economic power of unpaid interns work?
5 Currency Zones of the future (#CZF) We’re likely to see the rapid take-up of digital currencies, LETS, time banking and formalised blackmarkets.
6 Rent crisis (#rentcrisis) Frozen wages and rising rents combine to suck out increasing chunks of the take-home wage of low- paid, precarious and key workers, and it is a recipe for social tension. Out of rent-crisis are born rent-resisters.
7 Britain’s Bread Riots (#breadriots) With wages falling in real-terms across the large British public sector, and unemployment rising against a similarly rising CPI, the issue of food poverty is once again pressing at the doors of many across Britain.
8 Crisis 2012: The Olympian State (#crisis2012) The Olympics has become a showcase endeavour to demonstrate the unity and power of the national State, with the subtext that whilst we may be suffering under austerity, England endures.
9 Autoreductionism (#proletarianshopping) Families are forced to choose between essential items for their children. Why not go shopping as a community?
