Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
from RM--LRB · Benjamin Kunkel on David Harvey · How Much Is Too Much?
The incorporation into the capitalist domain of non-capitalist territories and populations, the privatisation of public or commonly owned assets, including land, and so on, down to the commodification of indigenous art-forms and the patenting of seeds, offer instances of the accumulation by dispossession that has accompanied capitalism since its inception. This field for gain would be exhausted only with universal commodification, when ‘every person in every nook and cranny of the world is caught within the orbit of capital.’
Friday, March 11, 2011
Life With Dada
"Life With Dada" made by Gregg Simpson in 1965, starring Gerry Gilbert & Roger Tentrey
Inky crash
A tractor-trailer hauling industrial printer cartridges rolled over this morning on the ramp from Route 128 North to Interstate 95 North in Peabody, spewing ink across the roadway. The ramp could be closed for up to eight hours while the mess is cleaned up, State Police said...
EDGELANDS by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts reviewed by Sean O’Brien
Edgelands in England are for the most part the zone of the in-between, places
neither urban nor rural, often marked by desire paths, dead cars and
hawthorn trees. They are likely to have an industrial history but they may
also simply be places where suburbs have run out of steam and money. They
escape inclusion in plans, or have been included but have managed to sustain
a sense of difference despite the planners’ intentions. At some point, the
powers that be will come for them and convert them for retail development or
a business park, but on that day the edgelands will move further down the
road and out of sight and somehow persist to undermine and complicate the
new developments. In spirit, edgelands are untidy, improvised, accidental,
secret and quite likely a risk to health. For many people of a certain age
and background they are more real than the countryside to which the
city-dweller’s aspirations have long been directed. For one thing, edgelands
are accessible; for another, it can seem, at least for a time, as if no one
owns them...
out & about
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Curtis Mayfield: After the Rain
While many focus on President Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey as proof of racial equality, in reality, it has only created the illusion that racism no longer exists. In actuality, what little progress has been made has only forced the face of racism to strengthen itself through institutionalized and systematic conditioning that has influenced the perception of most Americans. Consequently, discrimination has become so much a part of the American fabric that we have lost our ability to even distinguish the difference. Sadly but not surprisingly, racism has further embedded itself into our social foundation and structure...
Curtis Mayfield We are the People Darker Than Blue
The Impressions - Choice Of Colors
Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
please sign the Southlands - Back in the ALR Petition
Southlands is comprised of over 500 acres of land that was successfully
farmed until it was purchased by developers in 1982. Since then, this
land has been under regular threat of development, with the latest plan
envisioning as many as 1,900 homes being built.
Due to these constant pressures the best solution is to place the land back in the Agricultural Land Reserve.
David Foster Wallace: “Backbone”
Every whole person has ambitions, objectives, initiatives, goals. This one particular boy’s goal was to be able to press his lips to every square inch of his own body...
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
out & aboutSunday, February 20, 2011
Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King - The Criterion CollectionCanadian director Allan King is one of cinema’s best-kept secrets. Over
the course of fifty years, he shuttled between features and shorts,
big-screen cinema and episodic television, comedy and drama, fiction and
nonfiction. It was with his cinema-verité-style documentaries,
though—his “actuality dramas,” as he called them—that King left his
greatest mark on film history. These startlingly intimate studies of
people whose lives are in flux—damaged children, warring spouses, the
terminally ill— always done without narration or interviews, are
riveting and at times emotionally overwhelming. Humane, cathartic, and
important, Allan King’s spontaneous portraits of the everyday demand to
be seen...
Thursday, February 17, 2011
interview with painter George Shaw
"It was – there's no other way to put it – a nice place to grow up," Shaw says, when we settle in his local on Ilfracombe's main street over Guinness and cottage pie before an open fire. "A postwar council estate on the edge of Coventry, with trees, grass and loads of woodland just beyond. The last built-up area before the countryside took over. I don't think it has ever left me, that sense of possibility and familiarity and possible danger lurking out there somewhere beyond. I haunted the place and now it haunts me."
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