the Society of Control
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#Fracketeering: Solutions for the Society of Control
My colleague Adam Briggle has been very active intellectually and politically with local bans on fracking in my hometown of Denton. In a dialog we had recently, I mentioned to him that fracking bans–and the ban on bans–could be read differently… Continue reading
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The Devouring Abyss
George Monbiot at The Guardian examines the desperation to be found in the lives of those who have known nothing but or giving themselves over to the materialist worldview that drives the Society of Control. To think of the world… Continue reading
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How Wall Street Power Brokers Are Designing the Future of Public Education as a Money-Making Machine
Financial Capitalism–subordinating all processes of production toward amassing the greatest amount of excess monetary value through constantly changing financial networks–has nowhere left to turn besides the local after absorbing all international, national, and regional systems of output. And we should… Continue reading
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Nancy Gibbs on Why Pope Francis Is TIME’s Person of the Year 2013 | TIME.com
Picking Francis I, with Edward Snowden a close runner up, demonstrates how the power-hungry Financial Capitalist networks of the Society of Control are being challenged by both the most traditional channels of discourse as well as the most anti-imperialist channels.… Continue reading
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Art and the Alter-Modern Philosophical Network
If the Society of Control is in part about the delivery of knowledge and information through constantly modulating networks, then maybe the PBS Idea Channel gives us an inkling of how Millennials will philosophize via the interweb. Here are a… Continue reading
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