“Extreme rainfall in southern India has killed nearly 270 people and displaced about a million more, as flooding causes major problems in the state of Tamil Nadu. Chennai, the capital […]

need I mention that Zizek gets off on tangents? http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/archive/audio/2015_12_03/2015_12_03_Slavoj_Zizek_talk.mp3 in this first talk he is mostly talking about current affairs http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2015/12/slavoj-zizek-against-recognition-a-critique-of-the-liberal-reading-of-hegel-pippin-brandom/ here (and mp3 above) he finally gets corralled […]

when a cash infusion of over a trillion euros isn’t enough… http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-low/proto/http/vpid/p03b1f29.mp3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r-KkXhaahs http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/scott-weiland-dead-at-48-20151204

http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/broggi-heidegger-lecture-21102015 http://www.academia.edu/17623548/Heidegger_in_Plain_English_The_Phenomenology_in_Being_and_Time  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXBxgB0Fvx0 “When napalm is burning, it is too late to extinguish it. You have to fight napalm where it is produced: in the factories” — Harun Farock via @ethel_baraona

“The pirate book is an impeccably curated collection of essays and photos by artists, researchers, militants and bootleggers who share their experiences and anecdotes of piracy and anti-piracy practices through […]

New books, old books, the leaves all piled together. A paper blanket is better than no blanket. You who sleep like princes, sheltered from the cold, Do you know how […]

see also http://wire.novaramedia.com/2015/11/coping-out-what-will-it-take-to-overcome-the-environmental-movements-impasse/

While politics and ethics get debated someone somewhere is going ahead with gene editing. Personally, re-reading Huxley’s dystopia recently- it seemed better than this dystopia. From the Washington Post:   […]

Originally posted on womensphere:
Article by Gloria Steinem from the April 4, 1969 issue of New York Magazine which they have reprinted this month. Once upon a time—say, ten or…

http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2015/12/paris-climate-summit-survey-reveals.html

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/ideas_20151130_63676.mp3 “In one part of his 2009 IDEAS series about France, Gilbert Reid explored the riots in 2005 that spread from the high rise suburbs outside Paris across the country, leaving thousands […]

“In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is […]