August 25, 2010
"There is no lack of anti-capitalists today. We are even witnessing an overload of critiques of capitalism’s horrors: newspaper investigations, TV reports and best-selling books abound on companies polluting our environment, corrupt bankers who continue to get fat bonuses while their firms are saved by public money, sweatshops where children work overtime. There is, however, a catch to all this criticism, ruthless as it may appear: what is as a rule not questioned is the liberal-democratic framework within which these excesses should be fought. The goal, explicit or implied, is to regulate capitalism—through the pressure of the media, parliamentary inquiries, harsher laws, honest police investigations—but never to question the liberal-democratic institutional mechanisms of the bourgeois state of law. This remains the sacred cow, which even the most radical forms of ‘ethical anti-capitalism’—the Porto Allegre World Social Forum, the Seattle movement—do not dare to touch."

— Slavoj Zizek, NLR 64 (via theguywhoinventedfire)

August 19, 2010
Also also…

Also also…

May 31, 2010

Pailhead - I Will Refuse via @newsongsforyou

Murder and weather
Is our only news -
But I will refuse.

May 26, 2010
more from @dimalb’s archive
see also, for the lulz

more from @dimalb’s archive

see also, for the lulz

May 26, 2010
via @dimalb, who writes:

“This is on the occasion of the establishment of the United Arab Republic with Syria in 1958. In love with my archives :)”

via @dimalb, who writes:

“This is on the occasion of the establishment of the United Arab Republic with Syria in 1958. In love with my archives :)”

April 21, 2010
I try to avoid linking to the Daily Mail (why give them the ad revenue?), so I took a screenshot of this hilarious photo/caption combo h/t @sciencepunk.
If you really MUST see the actual article, google the headline… lol

I try to avoid linking to the Daily Mail (why give them the ad revenue?), so I took a screenshot of this hilarious photo/caption combo h/t @sciencepunk.

If you really MUST see the actual article, google the headline… lol

April 7, 2010
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Thomas Pettitt on parallels between the pre-print era and our own Internet age » Nieman Journalism Lab

“Could the most reliable futurist of the digital age be…Johannes Gutenberg?

Possibly. Or, definitely, if you subscribe to the theory of the Gutenberg Parenthesis: the idea that the post-Gutenberg era — the period from, roughly, the 15th century to the 20th, an age defined by textuality — was essentially an interruption in the broader arc of human communication. And that we are now, via the discursive architecture of the web, slowly returning to a state in which orality — conversation, gossip, the ephemeral — defines our media culture.

It’s a controversial idea, but a fascinating one. And one whose back-to-the-future sensibility (particularly now, with the introduction of the iPad and other Potential Game-Changers) seems increasingly relevant: When you’re living through a revolution, it’s helpful to know what you may be turning toward.” via butterflyhunt

February 6, 2010
Tweets of Interest: Facebook Edition

@1D4TW “FACEBOOK.COM: intelligence agencies’ espionage site” http://bit.ly/b0wtJW

@PhilippaBeeb RT @cward1e The sudden rise of facebook as portal for news is staggering. This data gives weight to my anecdotes about my students http://bit.ly/bqjSlv

@PD_Smith Five journalists have spent the last five days locked up in a farmhouse in France w/ only Facebook & Twitter to rely on http://bit.ly/bpYCCY

@evgenymorozov the world is coming to an end: New York Review of Books reviews books about Facebook http://bit.ly/9vgYq5

@ybalagian The Post-Breakup Facebook Effect http://bit.ly/8LMLT5

More Information than You Ever Wanted [pdf] - link between time on facebook and romantic jealousy http://bit.ly/1ger84 via @researchdigest

@semioticmonkey APA Style Blog: How to Cite Twitter and Facebook, Part II: Reference List Entries and In-Text Citations http://tinyurl.com/yhxrbjp #biblio

January 30, 2010
A quick guide to the maxims of new media

“We journalism/new media nerds like to think of ourselves as being pretty open, but we can be a bit clannish at times: We close ranks to defend a few core principles, we have our own hierarchy of gurus and we use our own set of words and phrases. When I dove into the future-of-journalism world, I quickly found that a few of these phrases function as shorthand for big, fundamental ideas. They often get traded without explanation and sometimes without links, leaving the uninitiated pretty confused and possibly a little turned off, too.

Consider this your dictionary for those phrases. If you’ve got any more suggestions, by all means, let me know in the comments. This guide is very expandable.”

via @jayrosen_nyu

January 29, 2010

Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) - How To Report The News

via @brookpete + Ian Aleksander Adams

October 23, 2009
#BNP #BBCqt > tweets of interest

@hannahnicklin My 2p: Putting the #BNPonBBC doesn’t legitimise them,1000s of people voting for them does.People are racist, we need to face this in public. +

@autobees First car crash point. Jack Straw should not be trying to compete with the BNP on who has the toughest immigration policy. Argh! #bbcqt +

@syrianews Warsi calls for limits on numbers of immigrants. Idiot. She is playing the BNP’s game. Idiot. +

@pickledpolitics Sayeeda Warsi and Jack Straw position on immigration is the same. She just said it better #BBCQT +

@syrianews They are trying to be better immigrant-bashers than the BNP. This is how low British politics has sunk. #bbcqt +

@pickledpolitics But the Conservative Party’s policy on immigration is the same as Labour’s. #BBCQT +

@pickledpolitics Chris Huhne sounding a bit hawkish on immigration… unusual for him. Suspect they’re all trying to outmaneuver Griffin #BBCQT +

@hannahnicklin #bbcqt I’m so bored with this fallacious anti-immigration rhetoric -a debate entirely cultivated by lazy right wing media +

@hannahnicklin And it hurts that Labour can’t acknowledge how bloody necessary immigration is to our ageing population, and groaning public sector #bbcqt +

@syrianews Griffin: we are the aborigines here (FACTUALLY BOLLOCKS) +

@LostLondon Is anyone going to tell them all idiots they would not be so many immigrants if they stopped messing other countries up?! #bbcqt +

@hannahnicklin OK, according to the internet, if a ‘proper Britain’ has to be as of 17000 years ago, we need to be Ukranian http://bit.ly/2Wp6j8 #bbcqt +

@autobees All of the parties are tripping over the topic of immigration to show they have the toughest policy & are pandering to BNP tactics. +

@autobees The most challenging questions on immigration came from patriotic British Black/Asian people. Interesting. +

@autobees One of the moments where the audience laughed & heckled the most: indigenous English are like Indigenous Red Indians & were there 1st. +

@jamiepotter RT @paulbradshaw: If you think #bbcqt somehow burst the BNP bubble remind yourself of these reactions http://bit.ly/3yMOMa +

@ninapower Never mind Griffin, the whole debate took place on racist terms. Fucking depressing. +

@kpunk99 RT @bat020 Warsi’s drivel demonstrates how the very presence of the BNP pulls political discourse sharply to the right #bbcqt +

@kpunk99 Of course the reverse is also true. Reason that the BNP has gained ground is how right wing the mainstream discourse on immigration is. +

@nextleft #bbcqt ‘cast conventional politicians in a largely favourable light which they have not enjoyed for many a month’ John Kampfner, guardian +

October 18, 2009
the single-pixel offset in the top-left corner adds layers of urgency to the spine-chilling #E20000 background fill.

the single-pixel offset in the top-left corner adds layers of urgency to the spine-chilling #E20000 background fill.

October 15, 2009
“I can be cruel - I don’t know why. Why can’t my ba / al / loon stay up in a perfectly windy sky?”

“I can be cruel -
I don’t know why.
Why can’t my ba / al / loon stay up in a perfectly windy sky?”

September 21, 2009
When it comes to life, love and true happiness, Sarkozy is leading the way. The French president's plan to rethink the way we judge economic and social performance is to be applauded

Oh inverted world…

Cameron as ‘tree-hugger’, defender of workers’ rights; Sarkozy as seeker & keeper of his People’s ‘well-being’.

Read this for the ultimate mindfxck.

via @presseurop

September 14, 2009



“Colonel Qaddafi—A Life in Fashion”
Since completing his transition from international pariah to statesman, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi—the longest-serving leader in both Africa and the Arab world—has brought color and his own eccentric panache to the drab circuit of international summits and conferences. Drawing upon the influences of Lacroix, Liberace, Phil Spector (for hair), Snoopy, and Idi Amin, Libya’s leader—now in his 60s—is simply the most unabashed dresser on the world stage. We pay homage to a sartorial genius of our time. (via Fashion, Qaddafi-Style)

igather: “Oh internet.”


“Colonel Qaddafi—A Life in Fashion”

Since completing his transition from international pariah to statesman, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi—the longest-serving leader in both Africa and the Arab world—has brought color and his own eccentric panache to the drab circuit of international summits and conferences. Drawing upon the influences of Lacroix, Liberace, Phil Spector (for hair), Snoopy, and Idi Amin, Libya’s leader—now in his 60s—is simply the most unabashed dresser on the world stage. We pay homage to a sartorial genius of our time. (via Fashion, Qaddafi-Style)

igather: “Oh internet.”