...to strive for a structureless group is as useful, and as deceptive, as to aim at an "objective" news story, "value-free" social science, or a "free" economy. A "laissez faire" group is about as realistic as a "laissez faire" society; the idea becomes a
'Just doing it' - not waiting upon national governments and international organizations to take action - has led to a remarkable outpouring of initiatives around the global environmental crisis. We explore James Gustave Speth's vision of unscripted, volu
This chapter addresses tactics of sociocognitive warfare, in particular those that are medical and technological...illusion technologies used extensively in PsyOps, are also covered here.
Some people think the Federal Reserve banks are United States Government institutions. They are not government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign
Michael Fumento writes artfully and originally on health topics/health politics. From Agent Orange, Gulf War Syndrome, and breast implants to stem cells, road rage, and attention deficit disorder (ADD)...
"what makes this board game work?", to "how can we give our players more control of our online games?", to "how do we make decisions in our company?", and of course "how did we collectively make such a mess of decision making in America?".
An irregular exploration of the struggle between the power of rational discourse and the scientific method on one hand, and the forces of superstition and dogma on the other.
Modern liberal societies have weak collective identities. Postmodern elites, especially in Europe, feel that they have evolved beyond identities defined by religion and nation. But if our societies cannot assert positive liberal values, they may be challe
TheyWorkForYou.com is a non-partisan website run by a charity which aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their elected and unelected representatives in Parliament, and other assemblies.
If the world is at base a primary flux of matter without form or constant, then things are always a temporary product of a channelling of this flux in what Deleuze and Guattari call ‘assemblages’ or ‘arrangements’...
Media reform is required to enable dissident voices to be democratically heard. This paper examines the complex interface between mass media & social movements, and collective actions to improve activism's media coverage.
This paper is taken from Chapter One of Radical Mass Media Criticism: A Cultural Genealogy (2006)...It argues that there exists a 'genealogy' of ideas that amount to a tradition of radical media thought. And so on.
Bono declares: "I represent a lot of people [in Africa] who have no voice at all.... They haven't asked me to represent them. It's cheeky but I hope they're glad I do." I am not at all glad...the agency of many Africans is suppressed because people like
'Pompous, patronizing, paternalistic, a celebrity colonialist, Bono's got a fetishized obsession w/Africa's ability to give him 'a sense of purpose.' [paraphrases/various]. "Because Africa seems unfinished...a landscape on which a person can sketch a new
Why's Bono "painting Africa as a pathetic place whose wide-eyed, infantile populations need a loudmouth rock star to fight their corner"? And what's "changed in world politics to allow a silly singer to [be] a spokesperson for Africa...at G8"? [Aviva, mut
"...the conception of the Avant Garde is discarded as a general movement forward toward a utopian external and is reoriented to a general movement inward..." from "Avant Garde?" as seen in the Post-Dogmatist Quarterly
What is morphological freedom? I would view it as an extension of one’s right to one’s body, not just self-ownership but also the right to modify oneself according to one’s desires.
We...live inside a matrix...[its] hegemonic power...only strengthened since [911]. Lies...repeated until... accepted as truth...by a bloated, myopic...bureaucracy...stench of pork is everywhere...
White House Is Accused of Putting Politics Over Science - New York Times :: for me, the creepiest part was that the former surgeon general "was ordered to mention President Bush three times on every page of every speech he gave" :: Goebbels meet Rove, Rov
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Cheney provoked widespread hilarity by pleading executive privilege (in order to deny one set of documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee) while simultaneously maintaining that his office is not part of the executive branch (in order to deny another se