May 2011
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dagNotes: On the Perverted Foreigner in Capitalist...
[I posted this on my blog blog, dagSeoul. It’s the place I post everything about teaching and living in Korea. I’m cross-posting it here because I think some of my readers might like the discussion of capitalism within it. If you want to know more about what’s going on with Korean education and foreign teachers and hagwon culture, ask and I’ll do what I can to explain...
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dagNotes: Kristeva, Celine, Welles
I do still like Kristeva’s work on abjection and all that about the semiotic opposed to the symbolic. Think I might have to do some re-reading. Notes to come, I suppose.
Powers of Horror
Revolution in Poetic Language
revisit Celine’s Journey to the End of Night.
that said, Orson Welles’ The Trial.
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Politics is Killing US
It’s really very simple. As long as we’re talking about Republicans, Libertarians, Obama, Democrats, et al., we’re not addressing people. In a society cultivated from a principle that insists working together achieves greater freedom and happiness, it behooves us to act on behalf of people who have little or no representation.
Whenever we talk about free markets, we’re actually talking about...
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dagSounds: The Forgotten Rebels in "HEY, Who's...
The Forgotten Rebels “Tell Me You Love Me” The Forgotten Rebels are from late 70s Ontario, Hamilton to be exact. This track is from their 1981 LP This Ain’t Hollywood. One of my favorite singles from 1982 b/w “Rhona Barrett”. “Tell Me You Love Me” is the perfect mixture of punk and power pop. Super catchy. It deserves its status. It’s on...
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dagSounds: Seoul Needs Garage Rock
The Lyres “Help You Ann” Lyres have been playing around since 1979. They’re from Boston. This is their most popular track, I think, as it seems to be the one most anthologized, probably to best effect on Rhino’s great DIY series. Lyres formed after DMZ broke up. You should listen to DMZ, too. This track is from 1984 as a single and on the album, Lyres on Fire.
The...
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dagSounds: A Little Power Pop from England, Wales...
The Telegents “Seen it Before” Great power pop/punk track. The Telegents were a power pop act from London, 1979. This single is from 1982.
Ail Symudiad “Dylun y Sebon” This is one of those legendary power-pop singles everyone wanted back in the days before mp3s were being shared. Now it’s everywhere a hipster douchebag is dropping names to get laid by his fave...
Hauntologies/Personisms: But there's no... →
digitalpidgin:
digitalpidgin:
“More than a hundred and fifty years after Marx urged us to change rather than contemplate the world, Deleuze, like so many of his philosophical contemporaries, effectively recommends instead that we settle for the alternative choice.”
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Peter Hallward, Out of This World:…
please read the book. i am tired of seeing the banal apologetics for the cult of Deleuze....
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Seongnam Ilwha 2 - FC Seoul 0
I took this photo at the end of the great game today at Tancheon in Seongnam. We finally won. As you can see, our supporter’s club was deservedly happy. This season has been frustrating with so many draws, a couple the result of Seongnam giving up a hard-earned lead. All our fault, I’d say.
Today, we played well for the entire game. Had our attempts on goal been more accurate, just...
Watchoccidentaledge:
I hope everyone knows why I have to go back.
Or, why we don’t want to leave. ^^
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Joe Scarborough, Scumbag
So glad Sam and Cliff talked about this on The Majority Report. When I heard Scarborough’s rant comparing Medicare users to hedonists who want to eat steak and chocolate cake everyday, I too wondered what he could possibly think about defense contractors and all the billions in corporate welfare we apparently can afford. I seem to remember Oil executives recently whining to Congress that...
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Gil Scott Heron, RIP
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Your stupid Tumblr thread about race is not...
Much silly shit by people who should know better on the Internet. We know this. Right now, the most idiotic Tumblr debate is about how only white people can be racist. I suppose it’s fun to bait racists. But the claim is not true. And what if it were? It’s a horrible way to conduct discourse about oppression.
The problem with this debate is the self-proclaimed feminists and activists...
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All you need to know about the Ryan "shared-costs"...
Well … and that Ryan is a liar who apparently lies all the time about things he claims to know and understand. Folks, austerity measures do not work.
(Source: Peter Orszag, Bloomberg News)
There are a few facts about progressive politics right now that I don’t like. I’m talking progressive conservative and liberal political action, like Paul Ryan’s budget proposal and...
“I - love - you has no usages. Like a child’s word, it enters into no social...”
– Roland Barthes - A Lover’s Discourse
(Translated by Richard Howard)
I need a PDF of this book. One of my favorite Barthes.
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Silly Republicans
When you’re arguing with conservatives and they’re bitching about Paul Ryan. That’s what they’ll be doing for the next 6 months while his plan dies and Democrats make a lot of capital from it slowly dying—they’ll want to complain that the left hasn’t been fair to their hero and his brave ideas.
You should remind them that they were idiotic enough to...
“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human...”
– Former US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bowman, in Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States (via rethinksocialism)
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I can no longer afford the printed word
I moved to Seoul three years ago. Many things were difficult about the move, but I found that I liked living here and took to it rather quickly. Most difficult was leaving thousands of LPs and 45s and hundreds of books and all the gadgets that go with both collecting habits in a PODs unit. My brother- and father-in-law are taking possession of my stuff next month. I’m happy about the chance...
Verbal Resistance: Meet Rae Abileah →
abudai:
Your badass woman of the week. Rae is the now infamous CODEPINK activist who interrupted Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress this morning — she was subsequently “assaulted and tackled to the ground” by AIPAC members, escorted to the hospital by police where they later arrested her.
As this 28-year-old Jewish American woman spoke out for the human rights of...
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Ponderous
What’s up with conservative men talking about Bradley Manning’s sexuality?
It’s not the first time reading right wing reaction to Manning’s situation like this: did Wikileaks and a gay guy really bring down the government? Something like that. Of course, Google “Bradley Manning” and the second most popular suggestion to complete a search is “Bradley...
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
– Maya Angelou (via apevision)
I’m sorry, but this trite expression is almost as bad as her poetry.
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Have you ever broke a Puerto Rican's arm for...
Anonymous asked: Fuck you you racist asshole.
“Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning...”
– Howard Zinn (via gravewisdom)
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Meritocracy = Welfare Program For The Wealthy
The libertarian ideal about earning your status is a coercive political and social tool that promotes the notion that wealthy citizens (already) earned their status and poorer citizens have yet to earn their desired status. Wealthiest people receive benefits both from the government and their communities while the poorest people are oppressed by poverty, lack of access to resources and punished by...
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tumblr problms
I can’t seem to access tumblr from home and only off and on from school this week. Could be a Korea(n) thing. I’ll figure it out and get back to posting soon.
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The Low-Hanging Fruit: Herman Cain is "the real...
Bryan Fischer uncovers why Herman Cain will not win the Republican nomination for the 2012 presidential election. Fischer also confused about how Obama could be Irish.
White Power 101: On Constructing Authenticity
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They are jerking you around. Keep the faith!
sisypheanabsurdity:
Fuck you. I have ADD and organizational as well as tangential problems when I write—which I have the balls to admit. Intellectual conversation is supposed to inform us and not turn into ad hominem dick measuring contests. I apologize for trying to be civil, but fuck you and your pretentious bullshit.
I don’t want to be a scold, but you can’t “win” a...
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Alexander Ryking: Republican's Mental Shangri-La →
liberalsarecool:
Jacob Weisberg tackles one of my favorite subjects in his latest column, asking, “Are Republicans losing their grip on reality?” As Weisberg sees it, “the current state of the national Republican Party” is burdened by a disturbing dynamic: “magical thinking trumps…
Ryking and liberalsarecool might want to take a look at what Jacob Weisberg had to say only six weeks ago...
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A Coercive Dick
Freedom Works’ Tea Party sponsor and all around happy, healthy and satisfied rich man, Dick Armey, wants you to know he supports dismantling Medicare because “[he’s] perfectly capable of having my own health insurance, that which [he’s] had all [his] life.”
Go figure! Right? Another rich, white guy on a TV show proclaiming “I’m Satisfied! What’s all...
industrialcracks asked: well i don't support Nazism..and is what he said about being tortured true?
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Scottish Cup Goals
Ki’s goal was tremendous. I can watch it over and over. It’s a goal he’ll always remember. The winning goal at the Scottish Cup final. Instant hero. Classic goal.
The unfortunate own goal.
McGrew’s brilliant set kick to the far post. If the wall hadn’t fragmented, Craigan would have deflected the shot. I think McGrew recognized the weakness, saw the small...
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The Poor or The Middle Class?
If you’re talking about The Middle Class you’re a politician or a mainstream liberal.
The haters on the right and their American Libertarian intellectuals don’t focus on people. They focus on institutions, ideologies and the market. They are always, by definition opposed to people and ideas about people.
If you’re talking about the poor, you’re a progressive, likely...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-15) →
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Robyn Hitchcock (10)
Sister Nancy (9)
Ray Charles (6)
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