March 2011
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WatchUS political theorist Jodi Dean on contemporary Democracy as “Communicative Capitalism” and as marketing campaign for Viacom, Microsoft and other corporations
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Link: KAFCA -Knowledge Against Financial... →
The journal by the Knowlede Liberation Front on common university struggles.
Today is the big march in London!
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Hussien Ibish's Under Western Lies →
The popular uprisings in Arab nations should bury some long-standing Orientalist myths regarding the “Arab Street”, writes Hussein Ibish in the April-May 2011 issue of Bookforum:
With the recent wave of popular uprisings in the Middle East, Western observers have had the chance to face up to an important realization: that the oldest of clichés about Middle Eastern politics,...
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Link: Başak Ertür's Manual for Conspiracy →
Başak Ertür brings a Manual for Conspiracy in the 10th Sharja Biennial which just opened.
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Link: Rethinking Dialectics and Contemporary... →
Conference at ICI Berlin - One Divides Into Two: Dialectics, Negativity & Clinamen with Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupančič, and Slavoj Žižek.
The conference takes place Monday, Mar 28- Wednesday, Mar 30, 2011
See here for more information.
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Link: Thomas Friedman - This Is Just the Start →
Reading the latest op-ed by this New York Times’ chief foreign affairs and Middle East columnist, a question arises: are transparency, information and communication technologies really sufficient for bringing political change, or maybe things are more complicated - are we not still subjected to what Peter Sloterdijk called Cynical Reason?
Wouldn’t it be true to say that the...
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Link: North Africa's tyrannies and the EU's... →
Astrid Ziebarth, Program Officer with the German Marshall Fund’s Immigration and Integration program in Berlin, in a document on the collapse of Europe’s immigration front line - the North African autocracies.
