The Ones-at-Large
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The Widening Divide Between Wall Street and Washington | TIME.com
Interesting op/ed at Time.com from the Curious Capitalist. Corporate finance is global. Politics remains local. Situating ourselves within the dialectic betwixt economics & policy is very much an important affair in facing up to the Society of Control & its… Continue reading
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New Pew Survey of U.S. Parents
While European legislators are considering adding a ‘right to be forgotten’ to data privacy laws to give internet users some control over who owns their data, U.S. parents are worried about the reputational damage of their teens’ online activities and what… Continue reading
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a millenial response to being accused of “irony”
I posted Christy Wampole’s piece on Millenials and the great issue she takes with them: they are too ironic. I argued that I thought she was missing something, but I did not go too deeply into why. This wonderful response… Continue reading
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Camille Paglia, George Lucas, & the Work of Art
Thanks to my beautiful friend Joy Harris who told me about this article. Time to pull out my own writings on this and dust them off. Who is the greatest artist of our time? Normally, we would look to literature… Continue reading
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The end of the university « Andrew Taggart
Nice meditation on a favorite subject of mine: where exactly higher education may be going in the globalized Society of Control. Taggart asks some good questions and is moving toward an intriguing elucidation: …any serious threat to the status quo… Continue reading
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How to Live Without Irony – NYTimes.com
Thanks to Andrew J. Taggart for pointing out this entry to the Stone blog at NYTimes.com. A good read. Not sure I agree with the whole premise. In my view, while Millenials do present a lot of irony (at least… Continue reading
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America’s secret fracking war – Salon.com
There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement. It’s a secret war being waged in the shadows while you go about your everyday life. In the end,… Continue reading
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Smoochy Boochy… Remaking the World in the American Image
Adam Curtis rocks. One of my favorite documentarians… ever. Below is a link to his documentary It Felt Like a Kiss. I recommend reading the full Wikipedia article, but here is a taste to get you situated: It Felt Like a… Continue reading
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Be persuasive. Be brave. Be arrested (if necessary) : Nature News & Comment
Nice Op/Ed at Nature from a financial analyst who calls on climate scientists to become more active & outspoken. I have yet to meet a climate scientist who does not believe that global warming is a worse problem than they… Continue reading
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5 glaring contradictions that sank the GOP – Salon.com
What Obama’s win, alongside surging Democratic senators, disrupted was the dubious marriage between billionaires dying to own the government and fundamentalists dying to institutionalize universal morality. This election exploded Reaganite propaganda that “big government” is the problem by spotlighting the… Continue reading
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Hacking Your Education, Part 2
And here is part 2 of the talk I gave in September 2012 to students at the University of North Texas. [You can find Part 1 here.] Keith Brown – Hacking Your Education Part 2 from Anthony Miles on Vimeo. Continue reading
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Hacking Your Education, Part 1
A talk I gave to a group of University of North Texas students back in September. Keith Brown – Hacking Your Education Part 1 from Anthony Miles on Vimeo. [You can watch Part 2 here] Continue reading
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Political Gnosticism & Far Right Wing Implosion
Oh, America… your ultra right wing folk have utterly melted down. This gent offers a “stiff-upper-lip comrades, we shall soldier on to save the barbarians from themselves” on the one hand and then succumbs to utter doom on the other.… Continue reading
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Class, Race, & Economic Discipline
As always, a nice find by my good brother Carl Sachs. Very interesting. Notwithstanding slavery, segregation and today’s covert racism, the Southern system has always been based on economics, not race. Its rulers have always seen the comparative advantage of… Continue reading
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