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	<title>Recording Surface</title>
	<link>http://recordingsurface.blogsome.com</link>
	<description>Scratches, crackles, and interrupted takes</description>
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		<title>SWP as universal condition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	We are not interested in any more tedious conferences or assemblies, which draw out hundreds of people, but only for an endless conversation. We are not interested in more &#8217;symbolic protests’, whether walkouts or strikes, insofar as they are pre-announced to end after one or a few days. More meetings and protests will only waste [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://recordingsurface.blogsome.com/2009/11/18/swp-as-universal-condition/</link>
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		<title>Our Border</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Our Border is a groundbreaking online civic networking tool that brings together experts, professionals, the American public and DHS officials to talk about the Southwest Border. Some of the most critical issues today – immigration, commerce, trade, tourism, national security, public health – are connected to the Southwest Border. This civic social network facilitates a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://recordingsurface.blogsome.com/2009/11/18/our-border/</link>
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		<title>Angel mutants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	So here&#8217;s my schema for classifying some of the communiques/occupations/actions of the last few months: The Invisible Committee&#8217;s The Coming Insurrection is Situationist, the New School Occupation is autonomist, and the Communique from the Absent Future is anarchist. Okay, that&#8217;s pretty silly, and reductive of course, since I&#8217;m not really sure what any of those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://recordingsurface.blogsome.com/2009/11/06/angel-mutants/</link>
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		<title>Mapping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I&#8217;ve uploaded an article I wrote a few months ago on the politics of the 2006 protests in the United States, primarily, after the initial passage of HR 4437, the hardass immigration legislation. It was was not accepted for publication &#8212; boo hoo &#8212; but reading over it now, I&#8217;m not surprised: bad writing and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://recordingsurface.blogsome.com/2009/11/03/mapping/</link>
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		<title>Sadness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Unlike some, I&#8217;ve never thought of Maurice Sendak&#8217;s Where the Wild Things Are as escapist fare. In fact, it&#8217;s always produced quite a bit of anxiety for me: parents who punish for things as harmless as chasing the cat and saying &#8220;I&#8217;ll eat you up&#8221; to your mother; visiting a place where the creatures do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://recordingsurface.blogsome.com/2009/10/27/sadness/</link>
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		<title>Capital rules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Some rough notes on Rawi Abdelal&#8217;s Capital Rules: Abdelal attempts to turn much of the standard history of neoliberal finance on its head. Through his analysis of the changes in international financial flows and their regulation at the institutional and state levels, he shows how the so-called Washington Consensus that is supposed to have dictated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://recordingsurface.blogsome.com/2009/10/20/capital-rules/</link>
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		<title>Profit and growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The postwar expansion of the welfare state and of social guarantees &#8212; including access to higher education &#8212; can no more be ascribed to the era&#8217;s high level of taxation than it can to the state&#8217;s unilateral beneficence. Such an attribution completely erases the centrality of productive relations and makes political economy operate solely within [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://recordingsurface.blogsome.com/2009/09/30/profit-and-growth/</link>
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		<title>Inevitable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	With every student occupation, teachers, bosses, and other responsible adults inevitably plead for reason to win out over emotion (the solution to the crisis &#8220;requires discipline and sacrifice, not the affective intensities of manifestoes and blockades&#8221;), attribute the students&#8217; rash actions to their ignorance and inability to comprehend the complexity of the situation (&#8221;students are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://recordingsurface.blogsome.com/2009/09/27/inevitable/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;No return to normal&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	From We Want Everything, a blog of the occupation of the University of California&#8211;Santa Cruz:
	
In the midst of the current crisis, which will be long and protracted, many on the left want to return to the golden age of public education.  They naïvely imagine that the crisis of the present is an opportunity to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://recordingsurface.blogsome.com/2009/09/25/no-return-to-normal/</link>
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		<title>Calais</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	&#8220;The dignified destruction of the Calais refugee jungle&#8221;
	




	The Daily Mail&#8217;s decidedly more sensationalist take.

	Also.

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		<link>http://recordingsurface.blogsome.com/2009/09/25/calais/</link>
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