Odd that in this age of immediate accessibility of everything, Bruce Conner’s film for Brian Eno and David Byrne’s “America Is Waiting,” from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, is not currently available on-line in a full length and…
Monthly Archives: August 2014
America is Waiting 3x
Posted in Culture & Entertainment, Neo-Imperialism Tagged with: Brian Eno, Bruce Conner, David Byrne
13 Tweets Instead of a Syria Strategy
IN THE SHADOW OF INSTEAD RT @rmslim: By far this is one of z best, if not z best analysis, of unfolding devepts in the Arab region penned by Yezid Sayigh http://t.co/zMW7oGUsKZ 09:52:10, 2014-08-29 #prt among most interesting aspects the…
IS/ISIS/ISIL/QSIS/Daesh-related links 2014.8.20-9
…plus a few observations as tweeted. I’m sure I missed a few good pieces (possibly while I was busy yesterday, for instance). Please feel free to link anything interesting or useful in the comments.
Posted in International Relations, Neo-Imperialism, Twitterei, War Tagged with: Daesh, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, neo-imperialism, QSIS, Syria
untable of non-forthcoming contents and discontents
…busy today selling movie posters.
Posted in Meta
Having your tweet and embedding it, too
If Twitter changes its API or, as also occurs, a quoted tweep’s account disappears, the embedded content may disappear along with it.
It’s easy, as I just discovered today, to have your tweet and embed it, too, and in a way that should, as we say, “degrade gracefully.”
Global Fight Club
What exists now is domestic & international momentum to finally address the larger Syrian conflict, and not just the limited problem of ISIL — Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) August 27, 2014 The Caliphate is an image or idea, expressed in a dogmatic…
preliminary to a consideration of “agapasticism” and “logicality”
Says Vikram Bath: Moral rights exist to give the intellectual proletariat a way to participate in debates. Thought through carefully, the above statement, which is I think intended to deflate, provides a basis for understanding what we (cannot help but)…
“What we would expect…” – terrorism and poverty
bank-robbing is unrelated to economic motivation, since most banks are located in nice buildings.
Essential Threat
In light of the ritualized sacrifice of a single man, on the altar of what we cannot help but believe – no possible justification – the many may be revealed to us as allies, as “with us,” perhaps first symbolically, but now also practically. Put simply, Foley’s death marks if it does not itself restore American re-engagement on behalf of those we had all but abandoned in the region.
Posted in Featured, Neo-Imperialism, The Exception, War Tagged with: Daesh, Iraq, Islamic State, Syria
ultranatural (2)
“God” would be in addition to whatever else or not a name that returns us to that never fully displaced, or as-only-displaced, “my” in its universal quasi-adjacency to any all and all particularity or “the any”: the pure or originary natural, the natural itself or ultranatural.
Posted in Anismism, Philology, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Untimely Tagged with: atheism, metaphysics, neo-Judaic, ontology, ultranatural