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• April 18, 2009
• 1:25

  rum-a-gin

   » ‎ gimme culture
  more often people should spend time in the open air, with friends, enjoying rum. it would solve the world's problems. one love.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31555688-6234747948183204280?l=gimmeculture.blogspot.com' alt='' //div...
• February 13, 2009
• 1:57

  David Harvey telling it like it is at the Urban Reform Tent, January 29, 2009, World Social Forum, Belem

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  "I'm delighted to be here, but first of all I'd like to apologize forbr /speaking English which is the language of international imperialism. Ibr /hope that what I have to say is sufficiently anti-imperialist that youbr /people will forgive me. ...
• January 31, 2009
• 19:20

  Money as debt

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  embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-9050474362583451279hl=enfs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /embeddiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31555688-6318530119237728524?l=gimmeculture.blogspot.com' alt='' //div...
• December 10, 2008
• 6:10

  Greece

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  blockquote"This is not just about the kid, it's about our dreadful education and economic situation. That's what pushed us on to the streets," insisted one youth who called himself Andreas. "It's our belief and hope that this is the beginning ...
• December 06, 2008
• 22:34

  Larry Summers

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  blockquote"No doubt [Summers] is very smart, but you're not giving him the job based on his SAT scores," said economist Dean Baker, co-director of the liberal Center for Economic and Policy Research. "What I look at is his track record, ...
• December 03, 2008
• 23:31

  Old Benedict Anderson article

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  blockquote"You wrote Imagined Communities in the 1980s. What would you have written in the preface of - let’s say a new edition in 2006?'br /br /- "Well, it’s a book I wrote when I was 45. That’s nearly 25 years ...
• November 29, 2008
• 17:57

  misery

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  blockquoteTrue, some of the white settlers are escapees from hell: Jacob’s wife, Rebekka, whom he imported sight unseen from London, retains too-vivid memories of public hangings and drawings-and-quarterings. “The pile of frisky, still living entrails held before the felon’s eyes ...
• November 15, 2008
• 21:59

  Patrick Manning and Keith Rowley, Bobol again and again

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  blockquoteAs he left Parliament last night after Manning’s statements, Rowley told reporters: “The facts have come out, that he is wrong. He is too big to say he is wrong. He is too big to say he will apologise. There ...
• 4:08

  Sexuality, race and prop 8

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  a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/black_homophobia"Dan Savage/abr /br /a href="http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8077"Break down of CNN exit poll methodology and numbers/a br /br /a href="http://ernesthardy.blogspot.com/2008/11/fuck-dan-savage.html"More on the stats/abr /br /a href=" ...
• November 13, 2008
• 1:07

  Affect?

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  blockquote"One of the core components is the medial prefrontal cortex (see diagram), which is known to evaluate things from a highly self-centred perspective of whether they're likely to be good, bad, or indifferent. Parts of this region also light up ...
• November 05, 2008
• 20:02

  "People wanting to touch strangers."

   » ‎ gimme culture
  Once the polls closed on November the 4th, 2008 the night became a stage upon which many individuals came together and shared an idea. It was no longer about race or class, gender or ethnicity, sexuality or age – those ...
• November 02, 2008
• 15:01

  Haiti

   » ‎ gimme culture
  blockquote"The chairman of the World Bank visited Haiti this past week. This man, Robert Zoellick, is an expert finance-capitalist, a former partner in the investment bankers Goldman Sachs, whose 22,000 ‘traders’ last year averaged bonuses of more than $600,000 each.br ...
• October 30, 2008
• 21:23

  How free to be radical can an academic really be?

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  blockquote"Who wants to be an academic these days, and what do they do? All the smart people go and work for McKinsey, right? They’re all bankers or something. Who wants to come and waste seven, eight years of their life ...
• 3:39

  MInerva controversy

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  blockquote"In any case, the best of today’s anthropologists are practically paralyzed by their awareness of the way power shapes and corrupts knowledge."/blockquote a href="http://www.ssrc.org/essays/minerva/2008/10/17/satia/"Priya Satia/adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31555688-986408961220987554?l=gimmeculture.blogspot.com' alt='' //div...
• October 23, 2008
• 13:56

  Funding for literature in/from the Caribbean

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  Nikolai over at a href="http://antilles.blogspot.com/2008/10/judges-journal-part-three.html"Antilles/abr /br /blockquoteTo the best of my knowledge--and I'd be thrilled to be informed otherwise--no Commonwealth Caribbean country can boast an agency, whether state-funded or private, that gives regular, consistent, and substantial financial support to our ...
• October 14, 2008
• 1:02

  Capital desires accumulation

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  blockquote"More than that, what we are seeing with the crash on Wall Street, I believe, should be for Friedmanism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for authoritarian communism: an indictment of ideology. It cannot simply be written off ...
• October 06, 2008
• 2:22

  A failure of leadership

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  It occurs to me that in the last 7 years Euro-American society has been offered the opportunity to redefine its core on two occasions. First was 9/11 when many saw restraint and dialogue as a chance to ask why something ...
• October 02, 2008
• 3:43

  gold

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  a href="http://freespeechbooks.com/weblog/2006/11/14/gordon-browns-big-gold-giveaway/"1999:/abr /span style="font-weight:bold;""the summer of 1999, against the wishes of people who paid attention during their economics classes, our ‘prudent’ Chancellor of the Exchequer,[Today Prime Minster] Mr Gordon Brown, started selling off over half of Britain’s gold reserves (three ...
• September 24, 2008
• 3:03

  Banditry

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  A a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/22/sen_bernie_sanders_robert_scheer_and"democracy now show/a on the 700 billion banditrybr /br /From the transcriptbr /br /ROBERT SCHEER: br /br /blockquoteYeah, well, the point is, when Bush and McCain and Paulson, who was head of Goldman Sachs before he was head ...
• 2:17

  The Philosophy Lexicon

   » ‎ gimme culture
  a href="http://philosophicallexicon.com/"Witty/a. With an interesting origin story. A few of my favs.br /br /chomsky, adj. Said of a theory that draws extravagant metaphysical implications from scientifically established facts. "Essentially, Hume's criticism of the Argument from Design is that it leads ...
• September 15, 2008
• 16:25

  Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity

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  With predatory capitalism and its south sea bubbles failing i was reminded of CLR James's 1947 piece a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/diamat/diamat47.htm"Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity/a. They dont make big brains like this anymore...br /br /"He who would exhibit the Marxist ...
• September 11, 2008
• 4:44

  une rencontre bien totale

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  "Imagine a poem that forces history, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and revolution to coexist. The Cahier stages the uneasy alliances between the monumental projections of empire and its abject underside: populations looted, cultures trampled, slaves reduced by terror and regulated by force. ...
• September 05, 2008
• 3:48

  Culture Matters discussion on HTS

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  a href="http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/hts-and-military-targeting/"Some interesting debate/a over at a href="http://culturematters.wordpress.com/"Culture Matters/a about Steve Featherstone's piece on Human Terrain System (HTS) in the September issue of Harpers magazine.br /br /Here's a extract by joneilortiz from a comment toward the end br /br /"It ...
• August 29, 2008
• 5:29

  Roberto Mangabeira Unger

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  "But Unger doesn’t think Brazil should compete against the likes of China by giving its workers ever-lower wages. And he rejects the neo-Korean model because he wants to start an economic revolution from the ground up, not top down. Instead, ...
• August 25, 2008
• 20:27

  "Play Yuh Mas Rev"

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  Mas playing priest diesbr /br /By ANGELA PIDDUCK, Trinidad Newsday, Sunday, January 20 2008br /br /(This story was published first in 'The Anglican Outlook', the newspaper of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago in November 2001; ...