Recording Surface

From Catherine Holland’s The Body Politic: Foundings, Citizenship, and Difference in the American Political Imagination: (more…)

Adorno, Minima Moralia: (more…)

(My little post on Bowie prompted me to reread this post I started several months ago on Dylan and leftist politics, which I abandoned. Looking back over it, I find it’s not quite as horrible as I’d remembered, but nonetheless not what I’d hoped it would be. Still, I’ll put it up. Maybe someone will get something from it.) (more…)

Mujeres Creando on Morales’s Constituent Assembly in Bolivia, found here:

With this assembly then, we witness the silencing of the social movements in our society. We also witness a re-accommodation of the social movements from the role of being the forces of the veto and the Bolivian social mobilization, to being the cheap clients of a liberal state. (more…)

Following are some excerpts from the conclusion to Jason Read’s review of Peter Hallward’s book on Deleuze, which I haven’t read. (more…)

Apropos of nothing, but also everything. How is it that the Smiths sound better now than they did ten and even twenty years ago? (more…)

A quote from and brief comment on Sylvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch: (more…)

A Mr. and Mrs. J. Carmichael Krox
Have just gone to bed near the town of Fort Knox.
And they, by the way, have the finest of clocks.
I’m not at all sure that I quite quite understand
Just how the thing works, with the one extra hand.
But I do know this clock does one very slick trick.
It doesn’t tick tock. How it goes, is tock tick.
So, with ticks in its tocker, and tocks in its ticker,
It saves lots of time and the sleepers sleep quicker.

–Theodore Geisel (Inspiration)