Pointing finger

March 25, 2008

I haven’t read Ken MacLeod’s novels, so I can’t vouch for their goodness, but I really like this line about Parecon, Michael Albert’s unutopian economic utopia:

Michael Albert has been slightly miffed to have his utopia encounter the opposite reponse. Most critics, he says, admit that it would work. They just wouldn’t like to live there. Although Albert and his colleague Robin Hahnel have tried to answer their critics, it still looks to me as schoolmarmish an anarchy as Le Guin’s Annares. The invisible hand of the market and the clenched fist of the revolution give way to the pointing finger of the neighbourhood.

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Spring, break, meme

March 14, 2008

A week ago, as my spring break started, team player Az stepped up to the plate and hit me with a movie meme that’s interesting. But alas, my response will have to wait even longer, as I’m extending my break through at least through the weekend. The weather here is beautiful, a friend is in town, my family is not in school, and I’m even going to hold my nose and attend some SXSW music events — the free, nonsanctioned ones, of course. March in Central Texas is a very good thing.

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The state of the revolution

March 5, 2008

As a sort of followup to the previous post comes this bit of news: (more…)

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Enemies

March 3, 2008

There’s an interesting geopolitical situation developing in South America, between Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Military hero Hugo Chavez is even raising the specter of war, though it seems unlikely to come to that. (more…)

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