December 2011
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“… the sphere of glory… does not disappear in modern democracies, but simply shifts to another area, that of public opinion… the problem of the political function of the media in contemporary society that is so widely debated today acquires a new meaning. “#agamben (2011)
the commentariat is congratulating itself for being read and followed… it shouldn’t for obvious reasons #spectacle
Any replacement for neoliberalism has to create ideological allies with the managerial classes… Are you ready for that yet ?
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end of year’s are often melancholic affairs so this is the list of the best items read this year:
Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy - The Crisis of Neoliberalism -(2010) Harvard University - Harvard/London
Chandran Nair - Consumptionomics -(2011) Infinitie Ideas - Oxford, UK
Tim Jackson - Prosperity Without Growth -
Armand Mattelart - The Globalisation of Suirveillance - (2010)...
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RT @MODERN1ST: Giorgio Agamben™: The New Fragrance for Left-Heideggerians with a Guilty Conscience /via @andrewloewen
re last RT alas poor Egyptians… they will learn
RT @BBCRadio4: Is there something unique about humans? http://t.co/Ut1Uz6y0 #science #archive @BBCRadio4
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If the media are so important in modern democracies, this is the case not only because they enable the control and government of public opinion, but also and above all because they manage and dispense Glory, the acclaim active and doxological aspect of power that seemed to have disappeared in modernity… #Agamben
During the Christmas holidays the rampant nature of the integrated #spectacle becomes apparant
The Book of Jobs, by Joseph E. Stiglitz, from... →
worldedness:
RT @nipclaw: Brazil’s GDP overtook ours last year. I bet Brazilians didn’t stuff their faces with turkey & Xmas pud or drink themselves …
RT @EstherHawdon: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer LYRICS VIDEO http://t.co/kc9ciQQp via @youtube …..arrrggghhhh!!!!!
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in four months they have downloaded a huge amount of medical discourse into my sons head… i’m impressed…
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#Serres....
There we see , drawn on the plane of configuration, an infinite sheaf of parallels or lines, along which points spread out one ahead of the other. There we see atoms fall. Or move with equal speed. From top to bottom, if you will, or in any direction you like its not important… Lucretian physics speaks in both way, as far as i can see without contradiction. Globally no one can imagine a top...
Surveillance is the Future of the Spectacle - Surveillance, data analysis and the Spectacle… - The tools… http://t.co/YCqWRTM0
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Micehel Serres Birth of Physics… I am myself deviation, and my soul declines, my global body is open, adrift. It slips, irreversibly on the slope. Who am I ? A vortex. A dispersal that comes undone. Yes a a singularity, singular.
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Herve Juvin makes the case that developments in science and medicine are redefining what it means to be human. We are living longer than before, and even as we are obsessed with longevity and youth, we are he argues becoming detached from the world, in part he argues because we are detached from need and suffering, losing what passed for western morality in the process. As evidence for this Juvin...
RT @BBCPeterHunt: The Leveson Inquiry: the story so far @BBCr4today http://t.co/pTOTBzFE #leveson #hacking
Photo: theinvisiblecommission: http://t.co/bU2ukd2J
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Data is the new gold …. EU Commissioner speaks … http://t.co/Evo8KkSU #spectacle advances
Rars can learn to free one another from plastic traps, even chocolate will not distract.. New Scientist. if Rats can do it!
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A brief note on the pre-history of the...
So we might know that the spectacle is a social relation among people, mediated by images, language, data and networks. It is “a Weltanschauung which has become actual, materially translated. It is a world vision which has become objectified.” Debord.
Often people want to discuss the spectacle as something that existed prior to it’s invention as the solution to the hegemonic financial...
RT @Peston: Hideous interim results from HMV, including warning that econ environment & trading circs cast doubt on its ability to remai …
The Killing II - amazingly downbeat ending… (murder is nearly always in the family… a proper social definition available there)
Three days ago the FT had a section on Islamic Finance.. Capitalism eh,
time to stop work and go and do something else…
On the 25th of November the mass-media was full of ‘net-migration at record high…’
RT @astrojenny: Aliens Hanging Out in the Kuiper Belt? We Could See the Light from their Cities http://t.co/OCPo7FjV
i think i invented a new career as organizer of libraries today…
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#Mayakovsky... 'on a generation that squandered...
i feel/like a soviet factory manufacturing happiness. i don’t want/to be plucked like a flower/after a the days work ………………………………………………. i want the heart to be paid its wage of love/at the specialists rate i want the factory/committee to put a lock on my lips when the work is done i...
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Mayakovski
Omnipotent one You thought up a pair of hands Fixed it So that everyone has a head. Why couldn’t you fix it So that without torment We could just kiss and kiss and kiss ?
Mayakovski … quoted from Roman Jakobson Verbal Art….
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Release Two of the Utopian List...
As I said before in Release One… It has always seemed to me that the purpose of a utopian line of thought in philosophy and literature should be to present a case which includes the following rationale: ‘I could live there’, a logic which excludes work whose worlds look unliveable or contain casual references to mass murder and death. There are multiple sub-categories within the area of...
Media Freedoms under threat - EU commissioner http://t.co/PiMxrj0r
The Sun’s Richard Caseby: Guardian’s false allegation directly resulted in 200 people being thrown out of work… #spectacle
#Serres malfeasance - In bygone days, the story goes, the whores of Alexandria used to carve their initials… http://t.co/h9sxMaW4
on the jolly note… night
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Neoliberalism and it's crisis - Dumenil and Levy... →
“… The term “neoliberalism” is now commonly used to refer to the phase of capitalism that began at the transition between the 1970s and 1980s. The functioning of capitalism was thoroughly transformed. Nearly 30 years later, as of 2007, many had already heralded the “end of history”. But the first symptoms of the “crisis of neoliberalism” were observed in August 2007.1 After the...
RT @mdcardno16: How the West consumed until Bust! Brilliant @Peston http://t.co/sOTlzBzl
Black mirror, pleased to see so many of you believe the #spectacle can critique itself…