She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
YouTube - She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
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Badiou on the financial crisis
As it is presented to us, the planetary financial crisis resembles one of those bad films concocted by that factory for the production of pre-packaged blockbusters that today we call the “cinema”. Nothing is missing, the spectacle of mounting disaster, the feeling of being suspended from enormous puppet-strings, the exoticism of the identical – the Bourse of Jakarta placed under the same spectacular rubric as New York, the diagonal from Moscow to Sao Paulo, everywhere the same fire ravaging the same banks – not to mention terrifying plotlines: it is impossible to avert Black Friday, everything is collapsing, everything will collapse…
infinite thØught: badiou on the financial crisis
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Judith Butler on the Election
And the thought of Obama, a thoughtful and progressive black candidate, shifts the historical ground, and we feel that cataclysm as it produces a new terrain. But let us try to think carefully about the shifted terrain, although we cannot fully know its contours at this time. The election of Barack Obama is historically significant in ways that are yet to be gauged, but it is not, and cannot be, a redemption, and if we subscribe to the heightened modes of identification that he proposes (”we are all united”) or that we propose (”he is one of us”), we risk believing that this political moment can overcome the antagonisms that are constitutive of political life, especially political life in these times. There have always been good reasons not to embrace “national unity” as an ideal, and to nurse suspicions toward absolute and seamless identification with any political leader. After all, fascism relied in part on that seamless identification with the leader, and Republicans engage this same effort to organize political affect when, for instance, Elizabeth Dole looks out on her audience and says, “I love each and every one of you.”
Uncritical Exuberance? : Indybay
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330 - From Pickin’ Cotton to Pickin’ Presidents « Strange Maps
The link between these two maps is not causal, but correlational, and the correlation is African-Americans. Once they were the slaves on whom the cotton economy had to rely for harvesting. Despite an outward migration towards the Northern cities, their settlement pattern now still closely corresponds to that of those days.
During the Democratic primary, many African-American voters supported Hillary Clinton, thinking it unlikely Barack Obama would win the nomination, let alone the presidency. When it became apparent that Obama had a good shot at the nomination (and thereafter at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue itself), their support for Obama became near monolithic. As it turns out, president-elect Obama won with the an overall support of 53%, but that includes over 90% of black voters (1).
330 - From Pickin’ Cotton to Pickin’ Presidents « Strange Maps
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Amelie, Jr. - Boing Boing
Once upon a time… from Capucha on Vimeo.
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Obama’s Dressed-Down Look: ‘The Dorky Dad’? (SLIDESHOW)
Unless BHO is headed to work at Target, there is no reason to wear a red shirt with khakis.
More on Barack Obama
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Patrick Moberg Obama Tribute
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Ten Ways the World Will End
The universe is trying to kill us. In Death From the Skies! our own Bad Astronomer, Phil Plait, counts the ways the world will end. Start worrying in a few million years about a cosmic dust collision, when the sun hits the closest spiral arm of our galaxy. Take your chances with an exploding star. Or manage to escape these threats, and you just get an extra 1035 years before all matter decays anyway.
Ten Ways the World Will End | Natural Disasters | DISCOVER Magazine
- Asteroid Impact
- Solar Flare
- Supernova
- Gamma-Ray Burst
- Black Hole
- Alien Attack
- Death of the Sun
- Galactic Doom
- Death of the Universe
Click on the link to see explanations.
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J Humphrey Design Video
Little J’s video from last week’s GG:
YouTube - Gossip Girl - Music Video
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Obamas’ SS Codenames
Rosebud?
Barack Obama (President-elect) - Renegade
Michelle Obama - Renaissance
Malia Obama - Radiance
Sasha Obama - Rosebud
Secret Service codename - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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