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Blog entries for 'November 2009'
Tuesday 17 November 2009
Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Raoul Vaneigem
Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Raoul Vaneigem over at Info Exchange:
HUO: Today, more than forty years after May ‘68, how do you feel life and society have evolved?
RV: We are witnessing the collapse of financial capitalism. This was easily predictable. Even among economists, where one finds even more idiots than in the political sphere, a number had been sounding the alarm for a decade or so. Our situation is paradoxical: never in Europe have the forces of repression been so weakened, yet never have the exploited masses been so passive. Still, insurrectional consciousness always sleeps with one eye open. The arrogance, incompetence, and powerlessness of the governing classes will eventually rouse it from its slumber, as will the progression in hearts and minds of what was most radical about May 1968 (more...)
Posted by Mark Thwaite
Tags: internet, philosophy, poetry, politics
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Monday 16 November 2009
Robert Kelly's The Will of Achilles
Robert Kelly's long poem, The Will of Achilles has just been posted up on the Web Conjunctions website.
But under the rain
a different thing. Vine leaves
Achilles sees, inconsequent
myrtles. There is no end
to weather. The gods are done with him.
(More...)
Posted by Mark Thwaite
Tags: internet, poetry
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Monday 16 November 2009
Patrick Keiller and more at blinkbox
blinkbox.com "is a premium movie and TV site that allows you to stream or download the best programming on the web." They have "over 5,000 movies and TV shows to choose from" which you can purchase or rent, but, on top of that, they have lots of free movies. Normally, I wouldn't bother to mention such a website, but the free movies include Caravaggio, The Draughtsman's Contract, Death And The Compass and Patrick Keiller's superb London and its follow-up Robinson in Space.
Posted by Mark Thwaite
Tags: film, internet
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Friday 13 November 2009
Shlomo Sand and Avi Shlaim in discussion
Shlomo Sand, author of The Invention of the Jewish People, and Avi Shlaim, author of Israel and Palestine, were in conversation about their new books at a packed Frontline Club yesterday. Jacqueline Rose, author of The Last Resistance, was chairing. A video of the event is now up on the Verso blog.
Posted by Mark Thwaite
Tags: blogosphere, film, politics
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Friday 13 November 2009
50 Books You’ll Want to Read in 2010?
Bookmunch has listed 50 Books You’ll Want to Read in 2010. If you're anything like me, this is mostly a list of the books that you'll be avoiding next year, but will be getting blanket coverage in the papers... Nevertheless, it's a useful selection of what's coming down the publishing pipe.
Posted by Mark Thwaite
Tags: blogosphere, publishing news
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Tuesday 03 November 2009
Claude Levi-Strauss RIP
Via AP:
The Academie Francaise says that Claude Levi-Strauss, an influential French intellectual who was widely considered the father of modern anthropology, has died. He was 100.
Levi-Strauss was widely regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing new concepts concerning common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in primitive and modern societies.
During his 6-decade-long career, he authored many literary and anthropological classics, including "Tristes Tropiques" (1955), "The Savage Mind" (1963) and "The Raw and the Cooked" (1964).
The Academie Francaise said Tuesday that it plans a tribute later in the week.
It did not give the cause of death or say when Levi-Strauss had died.
Posted by Mark Thwaite
Tags: deaths
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