January 2010
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“The taking of imaginative forms of collateral has a history which predates...”
– Andrew G Haldane: Banking on the state (BIS Review), November 11th, 2009 (pdf)
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Cyberpunk 2.0: Fiction and Contemporary
By Herlander Elias, 2009
Synopsis:
“I first published this book in 1999, a few months before the The Matrix motion picture was released. This was my first book, and there’s no other like our first one. So in the past decade I have been updating this Cyberpunk 2.0: Fiction And Contemporary. And instead of seeing it turning obsolete I witnessed it become very real, present and obvious.
This...
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Facebook: The role of the human agent in a...
by Dr. Thomas Giagkoglou:
(Image: From “Lifetracing: The Traces of a Networked Life” by Anne Helmond)
Abstract:
It is hard to dispute the popularity of online social networking especially amongst the young generation. Yet there is little consent about the moral dimension of social network sites, such as Facebook, Bebo and Friendster. For social critics they are merely a means of...
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Knowledge and History
Article in PhilosophyNow. The footnote also includes a link to a the author’s book offering entitled The Metarevolution offered as a free ebook. I’ve not yet read it, but looks interesting.
“On an evening out Grant Bartley realises the importance of perspective and hears George Soros talk about markets, ignorance and the Open Society.”
Below are selected paragraphs from...
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Life in a Dead Culture →
Interesting article. Something to chew on, certainly, but only if up for a little “realist” masochism. To my knowledge, first that I’d read anything from ZNet which sports “The Spirit of Resistance Lives” as a tagline.
Being incendiary can undermine people’s ability to form objective opinions, unfortunately, and in many cases leads to a self-defeating result,...
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[11 The Holy Moment] (transcript from "Waking...
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(We enter a movie theatre where, on the screen, we see a film of two men who are talking with one another. The first speaker is filmmaker Caveh Zahedi - to the right in the image below - and the second is poet David Jewell.)
THE HOLY MOMENT
Cinema, in its essence, is, well it’s about an introduction to reality, which is that, like, reality is actually reproduced. And for him, it...
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“History finds Camus on the right side of so many of the great moral issues of...”
– Prince of the Absurd, Albert Camus, 50 years on. The Economist Books & Arts (source)
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CC and Lit Hum "lite"
From WikiCU:
Contemporary Civilization http://www.wikicu.com/Contemporary_Civilization
“CC - first semester lite
God created man, twice.
God gave the ten commandments, twice.
Make kings philosophers or philosophers kings.
Man is a political animal.
Jesus is a socialist.
Jihad isn’t what you think it is.
The end is nigh! Oops, it’s not. Better recast Christianity as a...
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