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Friday Web PicksFriday Web Picks--New Communists DebatingBy borges, Section Friday Web Picks
Interesting debate on communism and future of capitalism....
The Idea of Communism at Marxism 2010 (1/2) from Kosho Yoshiyama on Vimeo. via chikuwa stumblesFriday Web Picks--Bjork via PopMattersBy borges, Section Friday Web Picks
Bjork reveals the inner workings of a television in this post on PopMatters website. Video below via @PoetryFound: Bjork on why "you shouldn't let poets lie to you" ...especially those from Iceland.
Friday Web Picks--Louise Bourgeois' workBy borges, Section Friday Web Picks
scribemedia -- July 10, 2008 -- We remember Pandora most vividly because it is she who released human suffering from the box the god's entrusted her with, only to leave hope at the bottom. According to Jean-Pierre Vernant11 the mythological figure of Pandora represents the answers to the questions: What is man? Why are there men and women? Why is there good and evil? Why is there image versus reality? It is in this figure of mythos and duality, a figure that embodies the tension between hope and fear, that the main themes of Louise Bourgeois' work may be found.
More on Louise Bourgeois' work in the full story... (609 words in story) Full Story Friday Web Picks--Iceland images, Peter Greenaway and misc.By borges, Section Friday Web Picks
Iceland images...
Link to it here since embed is disabled. also...Star Trek 1964 proposal RT @circular_ears: you will patrol the ninth quadrant, beginning with alpha centauri. click here all via @circular_ears from @sergeymirzoian
and a final one... RT @F414: "Honey, have you seen my anti-psychotics?" RT @jranck Venn Diagramming the World of Drugs click here Friday Web Picks--Marshall McLuhan and Chess (animated)By borges, Section Friday Web Picks
Odd how interesting McLuhan is given he's talking about technology in 1967. Embed is disabled so link to it here
via tweeters @openculture @courosa and @sergeymirzoian And Sergey's son is quite a creative lad, who has an interest in chess and movie making...I love the sound effects.
Friday Web Picks--Time to Protect Our Water ResourcesBy borges, Section Friday Web Picks
Matt Johnson detailed the issues involved in the Dept of Ag review of the CAFO siting law in this editorial (Link). He hits all the major points at issue, lists all the listening sessions DATCP is providing for public input, and calls them out that none of these sessions are within 2 hours of Vernon County. If you can't make the trip to a listening session, write a letter.
Another piece of the puzzle is Karst Management areas being proposed for the eastern side of the state. The incidents of contaminated wells are well documented in Brown, Door, Calumet, Kewaunee, and Manitowoc counties. The proposed bill establishes management areas in these 5 counties based upon criteria to be established by DNR according to the relative risk of land spreading waste in the area. One of the provisions of the new bill is to allow other parts of the state to petition DNR to be designated a management area. If counties can show evidence of groundwater contamination due to land spreading waste over carbonate bedrock DNR would have to consider the petition. At this point we need to keep our legislators informed of our risks here, and help them understand the need for every protection available for our fragile landscape. So get out the pen and paper, pick up the telephone, because there is no better time than now to make a difference to the future of our groundwater resources. If you need the addresses and numbers...think Kickapedia. Friday Web Picks--A Brief History of Pretty Much EverythingBy borges, Section Friday Web Picks
Here's a school project that kind of encapsulates world history...an obviously over-achieving student.
(1 comment) Comments >> Friday Web Picks--Fantasies We Live ByBy borges, Section Friday Web Picks
From Corporatist ideology and fantasy of power, pt 2 Stephen Dufrechou. It is a small snippet, and I recommend reading the whole piece that ranges from Zinn and Chomsky to Zizek and founders of the US on the hunt for a deconstruction of our collective fantasy life that bars us from justice that leads to peace. Well at least perhaps explains the Supreme Court decision that has disturbed so many.
Indeed, "corporate personhood"--and the state's upholding corporate interests over those of "the people"--is but an expected extension of America's founding ideological fantasies. The US Supreme Court's decision in "Citizens United" was not some break with American "democracy". It was not some kind of "take over", in which "We the people" should get "our nation back"--we never "had" a nation to begin with. It was always John Jay's nation, Alexander Hamilton's nation. It was always the "minority of the opulent" who owned the country, and ran it as they saw fit, while distracting the "Great Beast" with political rhetoric and propaganda.And a bit less burdensome, but quite as complicated: an art installation in Istanbul: ![]() from BeginBeing And if video speaks to you more potently, try this link to a work by Jonas Mekas "As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty". All these links were from @mhsteger on Twitter. Tomorrow's music will also be via this interesting person's work.
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