January 2012
Ballerinas Dance with Machine Guns: PRISONS AND... →
loneberry:
If you are from Baltimore, you probably know that there has been a 5 day occupation of the site where a $104 million youth jail is planned to be built. On Monday 6 people were arrested for trespassing state property when they entered the site to construct a schoolhouse in protest…
Ballerinas Dance with Machine Guns: PRISONS AND... →
loneberry:
Loïc Wacquant article “From Slavery to Mass Incarceration” gives a good historical/theoretical overview of the “peculiar” institutions that have operated to “define, confine, and control” black Americans in the United States.
The trajectory of these institutions might look something like this:
the first fifteen days » anneboyer →
bindrah: Article I wrote for the Daily: Jerson Ballena loses his job. You get a cheap laptop. Welcome to globalization, Philippines style.
“The Summer’s Eve “Hail to the V” commercial caught my attention from the initial...”
– The Most Powerful Thing on Earth | In Media Res
“It would be strange to rely on a party or state apparatus for the liberation of desire. To want better justice is like wanting better judges, better cops, better bosses, a cleaner France, etc. And then we are told: how would you unify isolated struggles without a party? How do you make the machine work without a state apparatus? It is evident that a revolution requires a war machine, but this is...
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7.Buenas Noches, España (Raya Martin)
The nuances of history hide in the flickering colors of Buenas Noches, España. Its seemingly endless loop of images exacts the inherent difficulties of our past, forcing us to grapple along with its shifts and meanderings. Owel Alvero and Pat Sarabia’s skittering soundscape serves as the film’s ignition point, using a map where teleportation and...
Baguio on the Brain - Center for Art and Thought →
I have contended that a hidden agenda of the Occupy Movement’s tent cities, now mostly gone, is to remove oneself from a normal, domesticated environment, with its attendant, nonstop media brainwashing via television, computer and other electronic gadgets. Freed from these insidious and poisonous mediators, one could discover other human beings, one’s neighbors, and oneself, at last. It wasn’t...
