Keith “Maggie” Brown
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The 21st Century Whitehead Will Be Deleuzian
New piece on Whitehead/Deleuze by my good brother Sam Mickey. …There are two tendencies that show up in the way people juxtapose Whitehead and Deleuze. On one hand, people situate them in combinatorial contrast, bringing together their concepts in ways… Continue reading
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Pedagogies within the Crises of Uncertainty
I am having a very good time this semester studying one on one with one of the academics at the University of North Texas who has agreed to be on my dissertation committee down the line–when I get to that… Continue reading
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RIP Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore deserves a spot in the pantheon of great comic actresses like Gracie Allen, Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett, and it is for this that she will be most remembered,” said TV historian Robert Thompson of Syracuse University.… Continue reading
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Digital discs flow into the stream
‘“You’ve gone from a world where digital disturbed the scene, but now digital is falling in terms of ownership [of music],” Bakula said. Today, “the digital consumer has switched to streaming.”’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/12/27/no-mozart-did-not-have-have-2016s-best-selling-cd-what-really-happened-is-even-more-surprising/ Continue reading
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False equivalency not fake news our biggest media problem
Unfortunately, the mainstream media still tends to treat figures like Limbaugh, Hannity, and Coulter as “conservative commentators,” as if they were nothing more than slightly rabid versions of William Safire, or right-wing counterparts to Nicholas Kristof and Maureen Dowd. The… Continue reading
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More Deadly Police Encounters Than We Thought
The Guardian US determined that police killed 1,146 people last year during interactions on the street. By contrast, police departments reported just 444 police shootings to the FBI in 2014. Source: More People Die in Police Encounters Than We Thought… Continue reading
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Anti-Fascism vs. Nostalgia in “Rogue One”
Thanks to my old high school friend, John F., for pointing this out to me. Great summary of why Rogue One may be the best Star Wars film yet. The author is at pains, sometimes, to be sufficiently critical; maybe errs… Continue reading
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“Coming Apart” – Harper’s Magazine
The term we commonly use for what is happening in the Mission is “gentrification.” But the changes at hand are taking place on a far greater scale, and are connected to a nationwide reorganization of… Continue reading
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The Dangerous Myth That Hillary Clinton Ignored the Working Class – The Atlantic
The more frightening possibility for liberals is that Clinton didn’t lose because the white working class failed to hear her message, but precisely because they did hear it. Trump’s white voters do support the mommy state, but only so long… Continue reading
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Public infrastructure, private investment
#Infrastructure is a new buzzword… should NOT be a buzzword as it is absolutely crucial to the life of any civilization. But it is the buzzword because the president-elect promises to go heavy and hard on upkeep/new projects. Of course,… Continue reading
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Richest administration in modern American history
Billionaires and millionaires meeting with president elect inside the Trump Tower: “What kind of government have you made for us?” Donald the Trumpeter to elite followers: “An unabashedly open plutocracy if you can ravage it!” How can anyone still believe that… Continue reading
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Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy
Every demagogue needs an enemy. Trump’s was the ruling elite, and his charge was that they were not only failing to solve the greatest problems facing Americans, they were trying to stop anyone from even talking about those problems. “The… Continue reading
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What Normalization Means – The New Yorker
Normalization isn’t just a matter of human-interest stories and a faith in checks and balances. What we think of as normal shapes our field of vision; it tells a story of the world and its possibilities. Racism, sexism, and the… Continue reading
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Research links racial resentment with gun ownership
The first step in our analysis was to understand the individual characteristics and political alliances and beliefs that are associated with gun ownership. To do this, we examined data from the 2012 American National Election Studies survey. Using a model… Continue reading
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More clickbait about Clinton
Not really sure how the Trumpistas can keep yelling that the media is bending over backwards to elect Clinton at all costs when every paper and news channel, even “friendly” and “supportive” ones like the WaPo keep creating these clickbait… Continue reading
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