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Intellectuals, Rhyming Professionals

John Protevi
Michael Hardt
Frederic Jameson
Janell Watson
Ken Surin
Gregg Flaxman
Larry Grossberg
Alenka Zupancic
Hassan Melehy
Arkady Plotnitsky

Meme

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llsidiZpAd1qz7lxdo1_500.png

“Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.”

- Albert Camus

via revolvver

"Gunshots in Asheville"

via paulomarginal

Photo book concept: The Dogwoods of Watts-Hillandale

Game Ain't Based On Sympathy

One in a Million

Broken Toys

"You're perfect, and I don't mean that as a compliment. The only good machines are those that can be broken."

Blockages or Precipitations, Explosions, Disconnections, and Indurations

from GD, Logic of Sense

"You're not a clinician, you're not an academic, and you're not a director of operations. You're an investment banker."

Inside-Out!

the next level

but what will mark the essence of time? (nothing?)

what is impromptu professionalism?

when is beauty formalism?

is everything irrelevant but the will to power (nietzsche)?

Is Comic Sans only a slightly worse font than Cooper?

Energy Inflation / Economic Chain Reaction

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2011/04/jim_grant_talks.html
(Start at minute 15:00. via ACP)

gas went up 15% last 6 months.

energy is 10% of cpi.

cpi goes up 1.5%

this brings the inflation rate from 2.50% to ~4.00%.

the last time we saw 4% inflation was around 2006, when the Fed had raised rates to cool the housing market, but instead triggered a recession.

instead, this time, the inflation may come prior to the interest rate adjustment. nevertheless, the interest rate movement (to 4-6%) could trigger all the horrible things jim grant talked about above in the link.

see:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Federal_Funds_Rate_1954_thru_2009_effective.svg

http://www.inflationdata.com/inflation/inflation_rate/currentinflation.asp

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t01.htm

The Blender

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SkpTRrAliA&feature=player_embedded

Does the phrase "on point" derive from the person on the basketball team who takes the position point guard, directing the play, the little general (e.g. Sherman Douglas), etc.? As in, "I'm on point?"

Sharing

so at one point i tried to build a site kind of like voyurl. i called it sendreader. looking at voyurl now (and not using it), i see how difficult it is for people to share stuff. we read the blogs we read because in most cases, they are highly specialized to our tastes. we follow the people we do on facebook because we appreciate their interests and perspectives. this is not a universal.

In Another World

The Empty Sky

"Divination is, in the most general sense, the art of surfaces, lines, and singular points appearing on the surface."

- Gilles Deleuze, Logic of Sense