May 2013
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the death of everything: The Ethics, Continued →
The second installment of the Ethics.
“Today is a day of mourning for the children of Chicago. Their education has been...”
– Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis commenting on today’s news that the Board of Education has voted to close 50 Chicago public schools.
While only around 40 percent of children in Chicago are black are Latino, 90 percent of children whose schools will be shuttered are black or Latino.
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DagSeoul: Positions, Populations, Punk, Poetics:... →
dagseoul:
Mass protests hit Chicago over school closures [Salon]
Chicago School Closings Vote: Board Of Education Votes To Shutter 50 Public Schools [HuffPo]
Chicago School Closings Spark ‘Wildfire’ of Protest [LaborNotes]
Chicago Researchers and Advocates for Transformative Education…
American Libertarianism: Regulations Are Bad...
Why aren't more people freaking out about the new...
bluandorange:
monetizeyourcat:
dancepunksnotdead:
You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?
It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift
holy shit!
fucking COOL
Northwestern student govt nominee's confirmation... →
sinidentidades:
The Wednesday hearing began with student senator Jesse Seitz reportedly asking the nominee, Stephen Piotrkowski, how he could possibly interact and serve a minority community as a white male.
Piotrkowski reportedly attempted to appeal to the Student Senate on the grounds that he identifies as a religious minority and has a lesbian sister, but it was to no avail.
After about...
“I tell sincere white people, ‘Work in conjunction with us- each of us working...”
– Malcolm X | The Autobiography of Malcolm X (via sinidentidades)
[TW: Rape] The Most Important #Muckreads on Rape... →
sinidentidades:
The Pentagon announced this week that a sergeant working in the military’s sexual assault prevention office had been charged with — you guessed it — sexual assault. This news came just a week after the officer in charge of the Air Force’s rape prevention program was arrested for sexual battery.
An estimated 26,000 service members were sexually assaulted in 2012, according...
‘Geography of Hate’ Maps out Racism on Twitter →
sinidentidades:
A group of researchers from the Floating Sheep project - who also mapped racist tweets surrounding President Barack Obama’s re-election - have geotagged racist and homophobic tweets in the United States and plotted them on an interactive map.
Students at Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif., looked at 150,000 geotagged tweets that contained slurs and were in North America...
IU on Strike!: Web Links for the Global Student... →
iuonstrike:
Many of us involved with the April strike at IU recognized that no matter how much our demands were rooted in the local context, we are still part of a global movement on university campuses against austerity. In that spirit, we want to share links from struggles that have inspired us. …
DagSeoul: Positions, Populations, Punk, Poetics:... →
dagseoul:
Going to repost Bataille on “anarchy”:
“Anarchy bothers me… . I can only feel intense dislike for muddled thinkers who confusedly demand all rights for the individual. An individual’s limit is not represented simply by the rights of another individual but even more by the rights of the …
DagSeoul: Positions, Populations, Punk, Poetics: A... →
dagseoul:
Let’s not forget this. As US citizens learn to see themselves as increasingly progressive regarding drug culture and legislation, you’ll notice the attack (stop and frisk policies, for example,) on black and brown citizens increases rather than wanes as the police reorganize and re-activate. It’s…
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Cats, Guns, and Books: William S. Burroughs’s... →
For breakfast, “a salted soft-boiled egg with toast, or perhaps fresh-squeezed lemonade, and two cups of very sweet tea.” My fascination
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Gaming the Vinyl Groove: A Brief History of... →
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In Case You Missed the Kentucky Derby this Year →
The 2013 Kentucky Derby is the 139th renewal of The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports. Live odds, betting, horse bios, travel info, tickets, news, and updates from Churchill Downs Race Track
I just woke up sober. Here it is.
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“We are taught that corporations have a soul, which is the most terrifying news...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Postscript on the Societies of Control
(via stoweboyd)
It’s a Deleuzean quote reblog sort of morning.
(via kenyatta)
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Disney to Withdraw “Día de los Muertos” Trademark... →
sinidentidades:
Here is what the spokesperson told FronterasDesk.org:
As we have previously announced, Disney-Pixar is developing an animated feature inspired by the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos. Disney’s trademark filing was intended to protect any potential title for our film and related activities. It has since been determined that the title of the film will change and therefore we...
Disney wants to trademark Dia De Los Muertos →
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See something worth following perhaps, then check it out in full and find a bunch of goddamn memes.
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“The recent efforts to promote lesbian and gay marriage also promote a norm that...”
– Judith Butler, Undoing Gender (2004; p. 5)
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Ethics Part Two (or the finale of the Preface and...
the essence of things
that cracks open under the weight of a thousand questions
like daggers in the dark -
bright blue day of confidence
turns out
to be a shadow of something else …
that something else is behind a screen,
and we’ve created the blue, or the screen,
or both
or everything
or nothing
“There is a proof for that”
sez Spinoza
“and it goes like this :
Jesus...
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