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The growing consensus is that Facebook’s power needs checking. Fewer agree on what its greatest harms are—and still fewer on what to do about them.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/10/25/facebook-autocracy-app/?fbclid=IwAR2ojWRv4n30pzjpem4oKjjLpPdTz4LY-oQjrwKhmbURX1EstjRvBKw7jrQ

The Autocracy App Facebook is a company that has lost control—not of its business, which has suffered remarkably little from its series of unfortunate events since the 2016 election, but of its consequences. Its old slogan, “Move fast and break things,” was changed a few years ago to the less memorable “Move ...

What’s your carbon footprint?

The devious fossil fuel propaganda we all use “This is one of the most successful, deceptive PR campaigns maybe ever.”

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/02/25/waste-stench-american-neglect/?fbclid=IwAR2pTAuw_eKP5iFTeJtbSmwiE4ygH4_dLLMq7aAlQ_F9xh8L_lBPXE78gwQ

The Stench of American Neglect In 1941 Walker Evans, a photographer, and James Agee, a journalist for Time and Fortune magazines, published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, their

‘Comrade’ is the most common form of address in China but is used only among ‘revolutionary’ people. so that, nobody forgets what freedom is.

Zheng Peidi · My Days in the Cowshed · LRB 4 November 1982 Vol. 4 No. 20 · 4 November 1982My Days in the CowshedZheng Peidi remembers the part she played in China’s Cultural RevolutionShare on TwitterShare on FacebookShare on WhatsAppEmailPrint 3818 words It was a gloomy afternoon in early spring, 1968, Peking, China. I was taking a nap with my new-bo...

What Is College Worth?

What Is College Worth? We like to imagine college as an egalitarian force, which reduces the gap between rich and poor. But over the past four decades it has mostly served to reinforce or even to widen that gap. During these years—and for the first time in American history—a college degree became the sine qua non of m...

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n11/edward-said/diary

Edward Said · Diary: an encounter with J-P Sartre · LRB 1 June 2000 Your customer number is the 18-digit number, starting with 20801, between the ' #' marks, and is located above your name on the address label.

‘Since I Became Symptomatic’ Leslie Jamison on single parenting during coronavirus.

"The problem with Hi**er was that he was “not violent enough,” his violence was not “essential” enough. Hi**er did not really act, all his actions were fundamentally reactions, for he acted so that nothing would really change, staging a gigantic spectacle of pseudo-Revolution so that the capitalist order would survive…. The true problem of Na**sm is not that it “went too far” in its subjectivist-nihilist hubris of exercising total power, but that it did not go far enough, that its violence was an impotent acting-out which, ultimately, remained in the service of the very order it despised." Our Guru, Zizek Ji Maharaj, Sloveniawale

The Violent Visions of Slavoj Žižek Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek. The financial and economic crisis has demonstrated the fragility of the free market system that its defenders believed had triumphed in the cold war; but ...

Los ochenta en España: La movida madrileña - ppt descargar MINISTERIO DE EDUCACIÓN, CULTURA Los ochenta en España: La movida madrileña Unidades de secundaria y A-level Unidades didácticas sobre aspectos lingüísticos y culturales para estudiantes de español de enseñanza secundaria en los sistemas educativos británicos e irlandés, elaboradas por gru...

Shoes by Daniel Kehlmann - BOMB Magazine From the book Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann, to be published on February 11.

The Oldest Company in Almost Every Country (That is Still in Business) - BusinessFinancing.co.uk To survive in the big bad world of business, you need staying power. We wanted to know which businesses around the world have stood the test of time and were th

Riding in Cars with Jacques Lacan Read anything about Lacan’s life and you will find it punctuated by stories about cars and driving. Both Lacan’s son-in-law, Jacques-Alain Miller, and his patient and lover Catherine Millot considered Lacan’s way of driving as part of his ethical stance: one had to follow one’s desire and no...