By Sasha Ross If you live in Oregon, you are familiar with the spectacle of greenwashing at the highest levels of political theater. As Portland gears up to host the UN’s World Environment Day, the international attention almost obscures the plans for multiple freeway expansions, a Nestle water bottling plant, huge timber sales (whispers...
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The Dictator is a Hipster! Today, there is an interesting Guardian report on the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who has just opened a new twitter account. He bemoans the problem that “if, for people, Instagram is just entertainment, for me it’s an additional burden.” Already we have the dictatorial language of ennui: “everyone...
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The most recent increase of border jingoism and rape in India intimates the political establishment of patriarchy that extends from a certain global coloniality of power. The important thing to do is not simply compare borders with rape, but to recognize how borders can be and are used in the power struggle of bio-politics....
Read more →Another activist has been incarcerated in the ongoing Pacific Northwest grand jury affair that began in the midst of a high point for activists. This time, it is Leah-Lynn Plante, whose name is added to the list of Kteeo Olejnik and Matt Duran It was an otherwise peaceful day, July 25, and activists were anticipating...
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Read more →Bezobrazia: Formless without Image As a teenager, I dressed very strangely. Wearing exceedingly baggy pants, often with holes in unruly places and earth-tone tee shirts that swayed easily around my frail, 6’2, 140 lbs frame, I sometimes sported a red, green, black, and red beanie cap. It was in solidarity with the Third World...
Read more →Toward Values Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly will be going head to head in a debate next month. Before we get too excited, let’s examine the current political economic realities that we face as a society. Here is David Harvey’s seventh lecture on Reading Capital. He gets into the nuances of Capital Vol. 2...
Read more →Sweet Police Sauce Today, as the follow-up posting to the post on bagels, I would like to write in the Heideggerio-Foucaultian vein about being as donuts, and how they pertain to the criminal justice system. The crucial thing to start out with is the bagel’s relationship to the donut. The circular shape of the...
Read more →I thought that, in the tradition of the great philosophers, I would initiate my posting with a Hegelian triad—Schizophrenia, Bagels, and Time. But what do these three things—Schizophrenia, Bagels, Time—have to do with one another? They seem so radically different, but when we (psycho)analyze them, aren’t they virtually the same? The first thing in...
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