Reblogged from Teddy Casiño: I would like to thank all those who voted for me during last week’s elections. Salamat po sa inyong tiwala sa akin at sa progresibo at makabayang pulitika na aking isinusulong. Bagamat hindi tayo nagwagi, hindi nasayang ang inyong boto. Malaking ambag ito sa patuloy na pagsisikap nating magkaroon ng pagbabago … Continue reading »
Reblogged from AES Watch: May 18, 2013 press statement By committing more errors than those recorded in 2010, by making arbitrary and highly-irregular decisions during canvassing, and proclaiming presumed winning candidates prematurely the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has turned the second automated elections from bad to worse – a technology and political disaster. Aside from … Continue reading »
Reblogged from STALIN'S MOUSTACHE: More for my study called Saint Joseph: The Man of Steel and Religion: In the city of Yakutsk, a sub-arctic city, major port on the Lena River, and capital of the Sakha Republic in Russia, a new statue of Stalin has been unveiled. Despite opposition from those dreadful anti-Stalinists, the local and … Continue reading »
Reblogged from : they forgot drunks, depressives, narcissists… Neruda was also Chilean Communist Party Secretary General and wrote odes to Comrade Stalin :) Continue reading »
Reblogged from The Funambulist: Israeli settlement of Rimmonim on the road from Ramallah to Jericho I am not quite sure to know the reasons that made me take so much time to write this article, three years after my last trip in Palestine; better late than never as one says so here it is: a … Continue reading »
Reblogged from The Funambulist: As I mentioned in one the most recent articles, I was feeling odd never to have dedicated a full article to the fascinating machine invented by Franz Kafka in his short story In the Penal Colony (1919). This machine is probably the most famous torturing apparatus of the history of literature; … Continue reading »
Reblogged from biblioklept: For all my disagreements with his political thought, Žižek’s Lacanian-inspired model of ideology is both stimulating and illuminating. Looking forward to this treat! Continue reading »
Reblogged from The Funambulist: The panopticon in its totality / assembled photographs by Léopold Lambert Last week, I had the opportunity to visit the former Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. The building is particular as it was one of the first prisons to implement the panopticon scheme invented by Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th … Continue reading »
Reblogged from Systemic Disorder: A revolution meant to advance the material conditions of large numbers of previously disenfranchised people is necessarily larger than one individual. That is true even when the individual who embodies the revolution is a charismatic leader such as Hugo Chávez. There is no denying that the death of President Chávez is … Continue reading »
Reblogged from Progressive Geographies: via Biblioklept. Good break from serious stuff. Continue reading »
Reblogged from STALIN'S MOUSTACHE: It is reasonably common refrain these days that social-democrats (or labour parties) have abandoned their true beliefs, that they have become proponents of rampant capitalism, that the only people who vote for them are middle class. This assumes that once upon a time the social-democrats stood for a political philosophy that … Continue reading »
Reblogged from biblioklept: Read! Read! Read! Continue reading »
Reblogged from The Funambulist: Le Cri du Peuple by Jacques Tardi (2001) As I wrote earlier, the 1871 Paris Commune is the historical reference of this series of articles. Despite an institutional soft form of censorship, there has been many historical interpretation of this event that saw a new form of governance created. One of … Continue reading »
3. That the critique of Xmas as ‘consumerism’ is a pseudo-critique is easily seen. What is supposedly wrong is the ‘excessive’ consumption of Xmas. This lets supposedly normal consumption off the hook. Genuine critique would of course start from the reverse premise: Only excessive consumption is of any interest because it is outside the realm … Continue reading »
Reblogged from The Funambulist: The newspaper The Independent recently released an article about the strategical layout of supermarkets. It is well known that nothing is really innocent in order to optimize the profits, but here the article provides a precise location and analysis of each part of this hyper-controlled territory. The power of the plan … Continue reading »
