Have we been d

November 6, 2004

I was googling for information on Gwynne Dyer, who I heard on CBC today, and came across an altbuzz essay, posted last July, Remodeling Protest by Jerry George. The article makes several intriguing observations: We have to remodel protest to reflect the grim reality of the present. Corruption is massive and global, as well as […]

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And now you know why…

November 4, 2004

People like to say, “trust your instincts,” and I suppose it’s good enough advice, but I have occasionally acted on principle against mine. My instincts tell me to be a “nice,” accomodating female because that’s the surest way to preserve a sense of safety. As soon as I’m not “nice,” the warning lights start flashing: […]

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Sex and shame and barter

November 3, 2004

What do we have in common? Dutch filmmaker and writer Theo van Gogh was murdered in Amsterdam on Nov.2 by a Muslim fundamentalist who didn’t like how van Gogh depicted the treatment women under Islam in his film Submission. Within days of the film’s August airing on Dutch television, van Gogh received death threats and […]

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A post-election message for progressives

November 3, 2004

John Cavanagh, director of the Institute for Policy Studies, just sent around the following encouraging email to subscribers. I hope he doesn’t mind, but I’m taking the liberty to quote it here in full. (Emphases added by me): Dear IPS friends, My colleagues at IPS and I have been meeting for weeks with allies around […]

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It’s a theocracy

November 3, 2004

I know a Canadian school administrator here in Victoria, very intelligent, who has dual US-Canadian citizenship through his American mother, and who generally supports Bush. (He’s funny that way, I guess.) A few weeks ago he left me dumbstruck when he said that he thought the US was a theocracy like Iran. I’m an atheist […]

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Commenting

October 31, 2004

It is Hallowe’en, and I don’t feel like blogging anything at all. But I did just spend a bit of time responding to Brian‘s comment to my Oct. 27 entry on Heath & Potter’s book The Rebel Sell. Now I’m written out, though. Go read the comment(s).

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Consuming distaste

October 27, 2004

If you live in Canada, you can buy a recently published book, The Rebel Sell, by Torontonians Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter. In the US, it will be published under a different title: Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture. I like the original title better — it makes me feel cleverer, and that’s […]

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One pill makes you larger….

October 25, 2004

Here’s a great article about sex worth reading. It sort of describes the White Rabbit‘s fall * into a third hole… Speaking of drugs: I had my flu shot last week. I usually think of Victoria as an end-point on a rock in the ocean: we’re on an island, and this is not exactly the […]

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I love archives

October 21, 2004

This is the sort of thing that makes my heart beat faster: Adorno’s personal archive — library holdings, papers, letters, even his piano — is moving to its own space in the Institut f

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Customer on strike

October 20, 2004

The following is something I wrote in response to a bunch of posts at Shelley‘s, which I first thought I’d post as a comment here, or maybe here but when it got longer and longer, seemed too overbearing for a comments board. But please, read these entries at Burningbird if you haven’t already. This topic […]

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