Travels… (Reading List)
If you’re wondering what tickles my wandering brain while it traverses the link-crossed electronic landscape, then you’ve come to the right place. Feel free to read and leave comments/start a conversation.
Marked on: 14:15 Sun 27 Nov 2011
Source camp: Politicalgates
By PatrickNever say that ordinary, unknown citizens cannot achieve great things. They can, if they know how to use the internet!The internet, this amazing tool which is available for all of us, reveals its powe...
Marked on: 12:23 Thu 27 Oct 2011
Source camp: The Rumpus.net
Steve Almond just released his third story collection, God Bless America. Among the stories, which Junot Díaz says are, “without equal in their beautiful, terrible honesty,” a couple are included in Best...
Marked on: 12:56 Sat 22 Oct 2011
Source camp: Knowtilus App
More than what meets the mainstream eye going at Occupy Wall Street
Marked on: 13:20 Wed 19 Oct 2011
Source camp: thecommune.co.uk
A wanderer's take: Seems very apparent that we are witnessing the revelation of globalism's shadow, the underside of what is really a "double-movement." This shadow is "from below," of the people, and seeks to correct the blind over-reaching of capital. Where it will end is an open question...
Marked on: 16:34 Sat 15 Oct 2011
Source camp: kaffe in katmandu
“If I move in, I know I will kill your cat. I mean I’ll murder it. Most likely. You need to know that,” Faith said, her green eyes big, tearful, the sides of her mouth quivering.
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Marked on: 11:20 Tue 11 Oct 2011
Source camp: Will Kenyon's Little Corner of the Universe
A wanderer's take: Some folks are starting to wake up to their innate political strength as a class of everyday people. What about you?
I don’t care what you think about the protesters who were there first. Seems to me that a legitimate strategy for making a protest movement seem undesirable or inconsequential is to point out how the p...
Marked on: 04:38 Sat 08 Oct 2011
Source camp: The Daddy Robot
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Marked on: 13:24 Sat 08 Oct 2011
Source camp: The Daddy Robot
A wanderer's take: I think this is a good way to begin imagining a non-capitalist future: not necessarily a future without capital (at least not in the near term), but a future without capital (the piling up of money and the influence these piles bring) running the show.
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Marked on: 22:25 Wed 05 Oct 2011
Source camp: The Awl
A wanderer's take: Not since Michael Jackson died have I felt the impact of a public figure's death this strongly. Not that one can compare the two directly, but with Steve Jobs gone one feels the absence of a person who has affected us all in great and lasting ways, whether we realize it or not. His is not just the death of one man but of a cultural source and force unmatched in our time. Love him or not, you can't deny his influence. RIP Steve...
Who is this man? He's the anchor baby of an activist Arab muslim who came to the U.S. on a student visa and had a child out of wedlock. He's a non-Christian, arugula-eating, drug-using follower of unabashedly...
Marked on: 14:32 Thu 22 Sep 2011
Source camp: www.dailykos.com
A wanderer's take: Cutting defense spending is going to cause the need for a draft? How is that possible if the same cut is going to cause us to lose 200k current soldiers? Makes no sense...
Marked on: 14:53 Mon 19 Sep 2011
Source camp: libcom.org blogs
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Biologist Lee Dugatkin discusses his latest book, which is about Kropotkin, The Prince...
Marked on: 14:01 Wed 14 Sep 2011
Source camp: Montevidayo
[I wrote this a while back and forgot to post it:]
I’ve been reading the new issue of a journal called Noö. Lots of great stuff in here, for example Cartoon-poems by Bianca Stone and poems by Graham Foust, G...
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