focused power play/dance? Lets see how this can be s/pan out.. I caught myself feeling/sensing something rather childish/infantile. With a new struggle between the russian federation and “the west”/usa, i sensed a with for “the West” to “win”. Why? When did this come about and How??!! Are they not all as anti free & fearless […]
Tag: power
art? Was checking arts linked Occupy Museums acts, and asked myself why am not exactly taking part of such actions/activities.. There seems, for me, to be a fair few elements that seem to prevent me from taking part, however here & now I’d like try focusing on power. To do occupation, perhaps only in my […]
databases? err.. for its personnel.. Am pasting here a g-translated article, hebrew -to-english, because I could not find a related data in english and i think the publisher, haaretz newspaper, ( haaretz = “the land”, a tern used on its own Only in ref to palestine, btw) seems to take off or restricts periodically access […]
it seems like calculation, unlike deceleration, requires legitimisation – yet the very act of calculation suggests a legitimate being, in our minds. where as to declare this text not english-only but having some links to ancient japanese, beyond just mentioning it in this line, might seem brutal and indeed require a brute act such as: […]
Was just reading a review of Omar, a film by the same guy that did paradise Now! Should search for this.. Just reading the review, I was wondering why I find this so arresting.. Nothing in my life is really connected to experiences of being an occupied person/entity. However, beyond the empathy with the Other, […]
seemingly some islamic sects bar their followers from going to Mars, at least in the foreseeable future, based on the assumption the whole adventure is fairly suicidal. Evolutionarily, it could be interesting because this is an example of how culture, religions are cultural elements, yes? – affects and intervenes in the evolution process. So here […]
as illustrated by power? (err.. microsoft and little helpers?) Seems like uk gov is seriously considering to change the default documents from microsoft (*.doc) to open doc format (*.odf). Hence, in the name of choice, fueled by money, supported by short memories and the myth of knowledgeable population that does most things they might get […]
for the internet? Following the day we fight back‘s instance in brighton, some thoughts came to me regarding critique of how we do stuff. It seems for me, that at least to some partial extent, the ability of entities like google to use our content/data is precisely because We tend to imagine the data in […]
aesthetics? A new gun designed for women has just been launched. The name, and supposedly, motivation, was/is a rape in delhi that shocked the world. So.. In a capitalist mind: humm.. we have a problem, some guys rape women. * are we going to tackle this culturally? (eg delegitimisation, cultural practiced forms of rape, cultural […]
check this clip.. they say: oh, rich chinese flee china? – isn’t it fab most come to Us of A? why do they flee china? – errr.. seems like the rich don’t like crackdowns on corruption.. so.. apart from the will to have generally rich people coming and driving prices up and all the misery […]
and the ruled? Noticed top story in today’s guardian, an assertion by a US militant, Robert Gates, that british military “risks” being underspent. The guardian’s excused reason to put this blurb on top of its website is, I suppose, the element of risk, rather than, for example: at long last.. (..am saying that because it […]
anti-israel imagined as bigoted attitude linkable with nazism.. (Notes, nazism in this context is not imagined by these who maintain the above sequence as part of the more general element of fascism..) I recall wiesenthal centre’s much dedicated work to help catch naties/nazi-collaborators and bring the to trial as a respected endeavour. And yes, I […]
by us and reflected via the independent? Check the various art linked moments of the year. Cool, fab that the independent attempts a focus on art! However, I’d question whether or not the link – that at times conflates – between processes that come to celebrate, produce cultural-social-political safety & coherence, or as Adorno might […]
dictatorship of capital? Bumped into radio free europe – radio liberty (rferl), which perhaps I should have noticed some time ago.. Their “mission statement” seems slightly interesting because they link democracy, free and uncensored information, with “free markets”. (I suppose the reference is free market capitalism style, rather than. for example, an exchange platform where […]
imagining bits of chinese present? For example, Smog as means for: Unity, Equality, Awakeness, Knowledge and Humour. (without irony, apparently..) And the 5 points above as cultural Smog who’s transgression might mean the end of your limited autonomy? The link: http://view.news.qq.com/a/20131209/012073.htm The gtranslation: Ruined health, cover the sky, paralyzed traffic …… haze this year became […]
Uruguay will begin having cheap, affordable, safe, democratically controlled (via elections) Marijuana. The idea, it seems, is to get negative, violent and pricey actors – ie criminals – out of the Marijuana network. I wonder how it will prove itself. My guess is that it could function better than in prohibitive regimes – if indeed […]
that remind me of Assad’s talk of a few years back, that Syria should imitate Chinese political life… The idea of Eugenics is not, in my view, immoral. The immorality is in the limitations it creates, and the way prejudice devastates individual and social lives. While I agree that we do not have to respond […]