January 17, 2010

Capitalism hits the fan: A Marxist view

Categorie: politics — Tags: , , , , , — Fraehnk, 11:59 pm

With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today’s economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. Wolff traces the source of the economic crisis to the 1970s, when wages began [...]

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Get your facts straight: Yemen

Categorie: politics — Tags: , , , , , , — Fraehnk, 11:12 pm

As you all probably noticed there is a lot of fuzz but suspected terror activists in Yemen. The story told by the government and parroted by the media is again pretty much bogus. The “terror attack” (the guy tried to put his underpants on fire!) will again serve as a pretext to get militarily involved [...]

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January 4, 2010

Bruce Sterling – Gothic Chic in the Future Favela

Categorie: art, politics — Tags: , , — Bise, 1:48 pm

Morgan Currie was that kind to transcribe the opening talk from Bruce Sterling at the confernce “You Me and Everyone We Know is a Curator” in Amsterdam last december.
read it here: http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2009/12/21/bruce-sterling-gothic-chic-in-the-future-favela/
He’llĀ  be also talking at the opening of the transmediale this february in Berlin. So don’t miss it!
theres also a video of the [...]

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