December 2010
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WatchIan MacKaye on success. I like that this subjective view that cuts through some of the politics of defining success. For Everybody wishes you a happy new year with many successes.
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China mulls $1.5 trillion boost for strategic... →
This would be a very significant investment, representing about 1/10th of the U.S. economy. It could catalyse young industries including alternative energy and more efficient tech innovations. I’m reminded about how a major obstacle towards sustainability is political will at the state-level, just as it is reiterated by youth delegations at every UN climate change conference. The other...
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“It is important to note, however, what Assange and wikileaks do not do. They do...”
– American Leftist (via newleft)
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Creativity
Creativity is usually seen to involve bringing things together from different domains to spawn something new - a practice that has been variously called “cross-structuring”, “cross-appropriation”, and “extension”. Seldom are such techniques reflectively marshaled to the task of creating different economies, yet they constitute an important means of proliferating...
“If you are not coming to put into question everything you do, I don’t see why...”
– Lacan (via fuckyeahtheorists)
“Behind every fascism, there is a failed revolution.”
– Walter Benjamin (via fuckyeahtheorists)
“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is strong.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals (via fuckyeahtheorists)
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