When I was younger it was plain to me I must make something of myself. Older now I walk back streets admiring the houses of the very poor: roof out […]

http://podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/to/KCRW-the_organist-episode_68_the_metaphysics_of_dub.mp3 “Louis Chude-Sokei is a Nigerian-Jamaican- American writer and scholar at the University of Seattle, Washington. In this episode, he discusses the music culture surrounding Nigeria’s internet scammers (known as […]

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2016/jul/06/trash-treasure-brazil-joquei-landfill-in-pictures

audio and list of titles @  https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter/bundles/222883 Click to access BrautiganPoems.pdf

Garner sold loose cigarettes; Alton Sterling hawked CDs — and they both died at the hands of police… “Simply arguing that there is more inequality is not enough,” emails Saskia […]

more from Sascha @ http://www.madnessradio.net/madness-radio-icarus-project-sascha-dubrul/

via http://tohumagazine.com/article/afrofuturism-and-arabfuturism-reflections-present-day-diasporic-reader

http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/archive/audio/2012_09_05/2012_09_06_SEP-FEP%20conference_Alphonso%20Lingis_talk.mp3 reading Coupland on Marshall McLuhan this is MM’s (and the usual but wrong) view “media as man-made environment…these active environments have the inclusive character of mythic forms and perform […]

http://bombmagazine.org/article/7323329/portfolio

http://time.com/4398196/dallas-shooting-bomb-robot/

http://ophen.org/

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
http://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2016/04/AP_16120294280909.jpg “In the future – which, somehow, increasingly looks like our feudalist past – to be truly free, we’ll first have to pledge allegiance to…

http://www.pdf-archive.com/2014/10/19/alex-rosenberg-the-atheist-s-guide-to-reality/alex-rosenberg-the-atheist-s-guide-to-reality.pdf                http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-162-sean-carroll-on-poetic-naturalism.html

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
This afternoon I came across an Atlantic article entitled “Why Do So Many Graduate Students Quit?”  The first hypothesis, offered as the “standard rationale” (!), suggested mental…