I attended a politics seminar this week that was solely about Occupy Wall Street (hurrah! etc) but which ostensibly addressed communicative power, and which I think threw up questions about the so-called public/private spheres. Deva Woodly, the seminar convenor, circulated a working paper by herself that outlined striking differences between the political fates of the [...]
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politics away from home
Posted in America, communicative power, family, marriage equality, New York, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst, occupywallstreet, politics, shock doctrine, Zizek on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
the subway, the storm, Obama, Zizek, and a call-out for Pete.
Posted in Brooklyn, megacities, Zizek on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On the L-train, I met a man called Daryl who was playing ‘Come Together’ really well with his battered guitar. I sang along without knowing the lyrics, and my new friend Shalin, a strange urban-o-rural postmodern creature, swung about like a monkey on the steel bars of the train to express his enthusiasm. Daryl addressed [...]
Tim and I discuss youth, newness, social movements, politics, tactics, and how the 80s fucked us
Posted in campaigning, culture, protest, revolution now, Zizek on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I had a conversation with a friend (New Internationalist author of Counterpower 2011, forthcoming) that went like this. I’ve reduced it from about 4,000 to about 2,000 words by excising the gossipy or irrelevant bits, but yes – that is still quite a lot of words. The reason I’m posting it is because I’m hoping [...]
“Love is evil.” The predictable musing upon Valentine’s Day.
Posted in love, Valentine's Day, Zizek on February 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A lot of gaseous tin-foil red hearts were floating around Oxford today, and appeared to have been attached with string to railings, bicycles, lamp-posts, signs and window-ledges in a fit of altruism by some artistically, or even anarchically, minded human being, who hoped, perhaps, to provide a bit of free currency to the world at [...]
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- Those speculating were huddled by the auctioneer's desk trying to haggle over crisis-stricken families' houses amid the beautiful din #o4o ~ 2 weeks ago
- Waiting now for nine arrestees at today's o4o sing-along-auction-blockade to be released at (cont) http://t.co/6gl6SUiL ~ 2 weeks ago
- #o4o action in Brooklyn Supreme Court kicked off just now, to resist banks' foreclosing on people's (cont) http://t.co/80aPmWLO ~ 2 weeks ago
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