December 2011
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The assault on universalism: how to destroy the... →
So for those who wish to destroy the European model of welfare state, the structural weaknesses of social welfare in the United States offer an attractive model. First, create an identifiable group of undeserving poor. Second, create a system in which the rich see little benefit flowing back to them from their taxes. Third, diminish the role of trade unions, portraying them as pursuing the...
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“God is dead. Nietzsche is dead. Diamonds are forever.”
– From my ad service. (via thenoobyorker)
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reflectionsonexile replied to your post: Home
faleh jabar (ed.) Post-marxism and the middle east maxime rodinson - marxism and the muslim world bryan turner- marx and the end of orientalism
Nice, thank you! I’ve come across Rodinson’s work before, but haven’t read this book in particular. Looking forward to looking these up when I get back.
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Heatedly debating the confluence of Islam and Marxism with my parents while watching Clueless.
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“It’s not a clever-enough subject to speak of from a public platform, but what I...”
– Arundhati Roy, “Come September” (via cuntymint)
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This is my plan for 2012
This is what I am going to do. Listen. O.K.
So what I am going to do is assemble a mammoth pile of shit.
And by shit, I actually mean miscellanea, consisting mostly of things that are good, along with many things with value that has yet to be fully determined, and hopefully with an absolute minimal amount of actual shit, figuratively speaking of course. Ultimately the value of many of these...
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2011 summed up:
Both Patti Smith and Linkin Park covered Adele’s Rolling in the Deep.
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“We do not need a dead mausoleum of art where dead works are worshipped, but a...”
– Vladimir Mayakovsky (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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dumplings/winter solstice festival with giant burning effigy/impromptu samba band dance parade thru kensington/blue grass @ the silver dollar/mcD’s fries/2 am tea with a cutie pie.
thumbs up, buttercup for last night. If this is any of indication of 2012, I’m ready.
also I still love Toronto 4 ever.
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Jadaliyya: Pioneer Bloggers in the Gulf Arab... →
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You know, I had a dream (nightmare) years ago about the apocalypse. During the dream I had what I thought was a prophetic realization that the apocalypse wasn’t going to be this sudden thing that happened like we’ve been taught, but rather, was a really slow disintegration of society, starting with our minds, then communities, then environments, everything slowly steadily falling apart...
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thenoobyorker replied to your photo: I’m inaugurating the new blog with its first…
What was your old blog?
nervouspeople.tumblr.com
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Bikes, Memory, and Melancholia
I was going to apply Freud’s conceptions of mourning and melancholia to my research paper about Palestinian collective memory but instead I’m going to use it to better understand my pain around the theft of my bike.
Everyone makes break-up mix tapes. What about bike-theft mix tapes? What do I Iisten to in order to help me cope?
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Bon Iver / The Wolves
fuck this song. emotions...
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Jadaliyya: Gay Rights as Human Rights: Pinkwashing... →
In her speech Secretary Clinton was, perhaps unknowingly, reproducing this generative alienation between political and human rights. She emphasized that LGBTQs everywhere had the same rights to love and have sex with whomever they choose as partners, and to do so safely. In making this statement, she reiterated a central tenet of what Jasbir Puar names homonationalism: the idea that LGBTQs...