2008

31 Dec 2008

Bedtime Stories

# posted by Bryan

26 Dec 2008

Happy War on Christmas

# posted by Bryan

Goo-goos

# posted by Bryan

24 Dec 2008

The Enigma of Bruno S.

# posted by Bryan

21 Dec 2008

“Greek Syndrome”

# posted by Bryan

20 Dec 2008

On the Right to Food

# posted by Bryan

19 Dec 2008

Christmas Fiends!

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: christmas music, music, original music

17 Dec 2008

Ann Arbor: Public and Private Space

# posted by Bryan

Shaviro on Biopolitics

# posted by Bryan

Capitalism as Religion

# posted by Bryan

In Defense of Irony

# posted by Bryan

Imperfect Freedom

# posted by Bryan

12 Dec 2008

Pride and Hysteria

# posted by Bryan

Downtime

# posted by Bryan

The Auto Bailout

# posted by Bryan

7 Dec 2008

That’s a Hot Mess, Gate!

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen

6 Dec 2008

Ball & Biscuit/Fever to Tell

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: music videos, video, white stripes, YouTube

Obama Campaign is Sitting on $30,000,000 Surplus

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: money, obama

5 Dec 2008

Johnny Depp

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: johnny depp, music videos, video, wesley willis, YouTube

3 Dec 2008

Examined Life

# posted by Bryan

Lou Reed on Songwriting

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: Lou Reed, music, songwriting, video, YouTube

The Last Word: Odetta

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: blues, music, odetta

1 Dec 2008

Žižek the Ironist

# posted by Bryan

30 Nov 2008

The Producers

# posted by Bryan

29 Nov 2008

Terror in Mumbai Leaves 102 Children Dead

# posted by Bryan

The Deadly Jester

# posted by Bryan

28 Nov 2008

The Assault on Mumbai

# posted by Bryan

27 Nov 2008

$7.7 trillion dollars

# posted by Bryan

26 Nov 2008

Criterion Collection Streaming Festival

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: cinema, online videos

Cab Calloway & Betty Boop

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: animation, cab calloway, music videos, video, YouTube

25 Nov 2008

Sean Penn Talks to Chavez and Castro

# posted by Bryan

Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

# posted by Bryan

Frightening Joe the Plumber Video Urges You to Switch to Digital

# posted by Bryan

Paul McCartney Defends Experimentation

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: beatles, experimentation, music, Paul McCartney

Two Adam Green Songs

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: video, YouTube

Hugo Chávez: Stalinist Totalitarian Part IV

# posted by Bryan

24 Nov 2008

Duck Tales

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: video, YouTube

Bourgeoisie

# posted by Bryan

No Cognitive Mapping

# posted by Bryan

22 Nov 2008

The View From Wall Street

# posted by Bryan

Networks vs. Structures

# posted by Bryan

Obama’s Two Constituencies

# posted by Bryan

21 Nov 2008

Teen Commits Suicide with Live Web Audience

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: death, media, suicide

Spectacle with Elvis Costello

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: bill clinton, elvis costello, music, television

20 Nov 2008

@+@ ALWAYS ≠ %

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: music, music videos, radiohead, video, YouTube

19 Nov 2008

DJIA Holiday Savings: Now 44% Off!

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: capitalism, DJIA, mortgage meltdown, stock market

18 Nov 2008

Unions and the Collapse

# posted by Bryan

The Devolution of Mickey Mouse

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: creativity, disney, mickey mouse

17 Nov 2008

$4.28 trillion dollars

# posted by Bryan

A Victory in Defeat

# posted by Bryan

Capital: The Hegelian Subject

# posted by Bryan

16 Nov 2008

Use Your Illusions

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Slavoj Zizek

Song 320: Festering Gospels & Costume Jewelry

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 366songs, guitar, music

15 Nov 2008

“Planet Finance”

# posted by Bryan

Appearances Matter

# posted by Bryan

Dick Cavett Beats a Dead Horse

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: dick cavett, sarah palin

13 Nov 2008

Nostalgia

# posted by Bryan

What’s Left After Obama?

# posted by Bryan

“What Is Wrong With Everyone?”

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: class, quote, royalty

Shrimp Boats is a Comin’

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 1950's, music videos, shrimp, video, YouTube

12 Nov 2008

Auto Industry Bailout is Annoying on All Levels

# posted by Bryan

Rise to the Moment

# posted by Bryan

The End of Wall Street’s Boom

# posted by Bryan

10 Nov 2008

The First 100 Days

# posted by Bryan tags: picture

The Electronic Wasteland

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: capitalism, China, electronics, global capitalism, video, YouTube

Keep On Screaming About Larry Summers

# posted by Bryan

9 Nov 2008

The Failure to Theorize Obama

# posted by Bryan

7 Nov 2008

Corporate America Gears up for Labor Battle

# posted by Bryan

The Office: Customer Survey

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: The Office, tv

6 Nov 2008

Theme Time Blog Post: Elections, Part 3

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen

Jack Bruce on Led Zeppelin

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: beck, cream, eric clapton, guitars, hendrix, jeff, Led Zeppelin

The End of the GOP Ticket

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, GOP, John McCain, republicans, sarah palin

Hope?

# posted by Bryan

5 Nov 2008

Trying to Bury Her

# posted by Bryan

What Next for the Struggle in the Obama Era?

# posted by Bryan

Nina Simone on Freedom

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: freedom, nina simone, video, YouTube

Bob Dylan on The Election

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, Bob Dylan, obama

PUMA’s Damn America, Move to Canada

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, hillaryis44, John McCain, obama

Chickens Coming Home to Roost

# posted by Bryan

“America the Conservative”

# posted by Bryan

Taking It to the Streets

# posted by Bryan

Theme Time Blog Post: Elections, Part 2

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen

The Meaning of an Obama Victory

# posted by Bryan

Obama is the President

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen

4 Nov 2008

Theme Time Blog Post: Elections, Part 1

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, music

3 Nov 2008

Pipe Wrench Fight

# posted by Bryan

This Fucking Election

# posted by Bryan

Fight the Future

# posted by Bryan

2 Nov 2008

Patti Smith in Paris

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: David Lynch, patti smith

From Midwest to M.T.A., Pain From Global Gamble

# posted by Bryan

1 Nov 2008

Jokerman

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: Bob Dylan, music, music videos, rock and roll, video, YouTube

Sarah Palin and The Masked Avengers

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, sarah palin, video, YouTube

NY Times Book Review: “Revolution in Mind”

# posted by Bryan tags: Freud, literature, psychoanalysis

31 Oct 2008

It’s a Springsteen Halloween

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: bruce springsteen, cryptozoology

Flat Stanley

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, obama

30 Oct 2008

The Tallest Man on Earth

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 3ack, music, music videos, video, YouTube

Jokes and Their Relation to Apperception

# posted by Bryan

The Century of Claude Lévi-Strauss

# posted by Bryan

From Beck to Hendrix

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: music, photography, rock and roll

Joe the Plumber Pursued for Record Deal

# posted by Bryan

29 Oct 2008

Russel Brand and Jonathan Ross Ousted from the BBC?

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: BBC, comedy, jonathan ross, russel brand

It’s Time To End “The Office”

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: Ricky Gervais, The Office

Through the Glasses Darkly

# posted by Bryan tags: Slavoj Zizek

Laying the Groundwork for the Backfire

# posted by Bryan

27 Oct 2008

Degenerates

# posted by Bryan tags: Slavoj Zizek, video, YouTube

The Voter Fraud Myth

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, John McCain, voting

26 Oct 2008

A World-Historical Swindle

# posted by Bryan

The Financial Subject Supposed to Know

# posted by Bryan

Germans Embrace Marx

# posted by Bryan tags: Marx

25 Oct 2008

The Reason Obama/Biden is Winning

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, Joe Biden, media, video, YouTube

Sarah Palin “Going Rogue”

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, sarah palin

Distribution is Distribution, Not an Instant Fan-Base

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: distribution, donation, music, music industry

Aww, Fuck.

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 Election, jon mccain, video, YouTube

24 Oct 2008

Police + Face + Cuts = ?

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, picture, Pittsburgh

23 Oct 2008

A Frightening Prospect

# posted by Bryan tags: picture

Larry David on the Election

# posted by Bryan

22 Oct 2008

Sarah Palin is sooo Hollywood

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: money, richard pryor, sarah palin, video, YouTube

A Kinder, Gentler Nazi

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: fashion, nazis

21 Oct 2008

The Apple Keynote to Come

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: apple, nikola tesla, steve jobs

Chomsky on the Economy

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: Chomsky, finance, mortgage crisis, video, YouTube

Spread the Wealth

# posted by Bryan tags: quote

18 Oct 2008

Marx and the Financial Crisis of 2008

# posted by Bryan

Badiou on the Financial Crisis

# posted by Bryan

The Next Big Bubble?

# posted by Bryan tags: picture

Can Psychoanalysis Think Biopolitics?

# posted by Bryan tags: biopolitics, psychoanalysis

17 Oct 2008

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

# posted by Bryan

The Permanent Democratic Majority

# posted by Bryan

A Brief History of the 21st Century

# posted by Bryan

Lacan and Repetition

# posted by Bryan

A Breviary on Socialist Planning

# posted by Bryan

Palin to Appear on SNL

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, snl

Obama is Funny (OK, So’s McCain)

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, Hillary Clinton, jonh mccain, obama, video, YouTube

16 Oct 2008

Gruber v. Riley

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: daring fireball, macs

15 Oct 2008

FUCK JOE! & Obama’s October Suprise

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen

William Jennings Bryan

# posted by Bryan

14 Oct 2008

Prince Show Needs to Be Bootlegged/Released

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: music, prince

12 Oct 2008

There Have Always Been Crises

# posted by Bryan tags: capitalism, crisis

Mack the Knife

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: kurt weill, music videos, nick cave, video, YouTube

10 Oct 2008

Kristol and Palin

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: kristol, mccain, palin

Don’t Just Do Something, Talk

# posted by Bryan tags: economics, politics, Slavoj Zizek

The New Socialism

# posted by Bryan tags: Barack Obama, capitalism, economics, neoliberalism, socialism, U.S. Politics

Cutting Spending

# posted by Bryan tags: economy

The End of Freedom

# posted by Bryan tags: capitalism, federal bail-out, freedom, neoliberalism, socialism, Wall Street

A Quick Fix for the Soul

# posted by Bryan tags: CBTs, Darian Leader, neoliberalism, psychoanalysis

9 Oct 2008

Tips for Recession Fashion

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: consumerism, fashion

7 Oct 2008

AIG Goes On Vacation

# posted by Bryan tags: AIG, capitalism, neoliberalism

The View From Roanoke

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, media, the guardian

Dreamin’ of You

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: Bob Dylan, harry dean stanton, music videos, video, YouTube

6 Oct 2008

New WALNUTS from Salvatore the Intern

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: film, jon mccain, video, walnuts, YouTube

Sweet Dee’s Confession

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: it's always sunny in philadelphia, television, video, YouTube

5 Oct 2008

The Communist Manifesto Turns 160

# posted by Bryan tags: Communism, Karl Marx

3 Oct 2008

Sarah Palin Debate Flow Chart

# posted by Bryan tags: debate, picture, sarah palin, U.S. Politics

2 Oct 2008

Psychoanalytic Therapy Wins Backing

# posted by Bryan tags: CBTs, health, psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapy, science

“Forget it, old people, No more TV.”

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: spike feresten, talk show, television, video, YouTube

AFL-CIO Speech on Obama

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: afl-cio, obama, unions, video, YouTube

1 Oct 2008

Sarah Palin on Roe v. Wade

# posted by Bryan tags: hilarity, Joe Biden, Katie Couric, sarah palin

Returning to the Political Economy

# posted by Bryan tags: crisis, political economy

Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists

# posted by Bryan tags: capitalism, crisis, Marxism, political economy, theory

Global Capitalism and Its Discontents

# posted by Bryan

Keys and White’s Final Product

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: alicia keys, jack white, james bond, music videos, video, YouTube

The Mouse Problem

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: mice, monty python, video, YouTube

30 Sep 2008

Sarah Palin’s Greatest Hits

# posted by Bryan tags: hilarity, sarah palin

Bailout Burnout

# posted by Bryan tags: economy, politics

America: The Gift Shop

# posted by Bryan tags: foreign policy, humor, imperialism, torture, U.S. Politics

“Fleecing Shareholders”

# posted by Bryan tags: economy, market, politics, shareholders, wealth

29 Sep 2008

The Prestige and Kierkegaard

# posted by Bryan tags: Christopher Nolan, film, Kierkegaard, The Prestige

The Economics of Fascism

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: economics, fascism, mortgage crisis

Time Will Crawl Remix

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: chernobyl, david bowie, video, YouTube

Yer Blues

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: eric clapton, john lennon, keith richards, music, music videos, video, YouTube

28 Sep 2008

The Girl From Las Vegas

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: books, covers, picture, trannys

The Heat is On

# posted by Bryan tags: video, YouTube

26 Sep 2008

Fascism: 1975 and 1993

# posted by Bryan tags: corporatism, fascism, ideology, language

The Neoliberal Dominance of the State

# posted by Bryan

25 Sep 2008

Braised Chunks of Karl Popper Served in Heavy Sauce

# posted by Bryan tags: American Left, BHL, liberal defense of murder

Karl Pilkington on Whales

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: Karl Pilkington, whales

24 Sep 2008

I Can Play!

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: music, omnichord, video, YouTube

Letterman Owns McCain

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: david letterman, John McCain, video, YouTube

Why $700 Billion?

# posted by Bryan

Don’t Trust Wikipedia

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: david bowie, music, omnichord

The Transfer of Wealth

# posted by Bryan tags: bailout, capitalism, crisis, neoliberalism, rich, U.S. Politics, wealth transfer

Chris Rock On Letterman

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, barrack obama, bill clinton, chris rock, david letterman, Hillary Clinton, sarah palin, video, YouTube

23 Sep 2008

Fail

# posted by Bryan tags: capitalism, crisis, economy, picture, U.S. Politics

Slavoj Žižek v. Bernard-Henry Lévy

# posted by Bryan tags: Bernard-Henry Levy, capitalism, Slavoj Zizek, violence

Bailout Talking Points

# posted by Bryan tags: economy, U.S. Politics

The Pantheon of Capital

# posted by Bryan tags: capital, economy, finance, market, neoliberalism, U.S. Politics

Well Did You Evah?

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: cole porter, debbie harry, iggy pop, music videos, tom waits, video, YouTube

Top Sample Sources

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen

Youtube is Videodrome

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: videodrome, YouTube

Dammit, George Michael!

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: arrested development, movies

22 Sep 2008

‘All of a Sudden’

# posted by Bryan tags: Bernie Sanders, capitalism, economy, U.S. Politics

21 Sep 2008

Ethnic Cleansing Stops Iraqi Violence

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: genocide, Iraq, war

20 Sep 2008

Jobriath the “Theatrical Event”

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: bowie, glam, jobriath, music, music videos, video, YouTube

I’ll Stand By You

# posted by Bryan tags: Pretenders, video, YouTube

Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle

# posted by Bryan tags: capitalism, crisis, economy, federal reserve, Henry Paulson, neoliberalism, U.S. Politics

Bons Mots and Bêtes Noires

# posted by Bryan tags: BHL, Christopher Hitchens, Communism, Islam, New Left, Sarkozy

19 Sep 2008

The Penguin and Mr. Stewart

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: music, penguins, picture, Rod Stewart

17 Sep 2008

Vote for Obama

# posted by Bryan tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, Barack Obama, John McCain, militarism, neoliberalism, U.S. Politics

The Free Market

# posted by Bryan tags: capitalism, economy, neoliberalism, regulation, U.S. Politics

16 Sep 2008

Toyota Brown

# posted by Bryan tags: Barack Obama, dreams, John McCain, U.S. Politics

The Sound of Raining Bullshit

# posted by Bryan tags: capitalism, class struggle, crisis, economy, neoliberalism, socialism

Change We Can Believe In

# posted by Bryan tags: capitalism, crisis, economy, John McCain, neoliberalism, U.S. Politics

15 Sep 2008

Vote for Change

# posted by Bryan tags: Barack Obama, enfranchisement, U.S. Politics, voting

The Palin-Whatshisname Ticket

# posted by Bryan tags: Frank Rich, John McCain, sarah palin, U.S. Politics

13 Sep 2008

Defective MacBook Fame

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: apple, consumerist, mark

Operation “Castration” or: Castration as Plenitude

# posted by Bryan tags: feminism, gender, Jacques-Alain Miller, phallus, sarah palin, U.S. Politics, woman

12 Sep 2008

The Class Struggle

# posted by Bryan tags: class struggle, U.S. Politics

Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet?

# posted by Bryan tags: global catastrophe, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, science

9 Sep 2008

Dreaming of Palin

# posted by Bryan tags: dreams, sarah palin, U.S. Politics

8 Sep 2008

Russell Brand is America’s Golden Saviour

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: George W. Bush, music videos, Russell Brand, sarah palin, virgins

Fanny, Freddie, and the Case for Social Democracy

# posted by Bryan tags: deprivatization, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage meltdown, social democracy, the state

Historians: Stop Bush/Cheney From Destroying Presidential Records

# posted by Bryan tags: Bush administration, history, presidential records, U.S. Politics

7 Sep 2008

The Art of Shrinking Heads

# posted by Bryan tags: book reviews, capitalism, criticism, Dany-Robert Dufour, Freud, Freudian subject, Jodi Dean, Kant, Kantian subject, Lacan, neoliberalism, postmodernism, The Art of Shrinking Heads, Zizek

5 Sep 2008

Palin

# posted by Bryan tags: GOP, John McCain, RNC, sarah palin, U.S. Politics

3 Sep 2008

The Case for Socialism

# posted by Bryan tags: class struggle, socialism

Klein Responds to Critics of The Shock Doctrine

# posted by Bryan tags: capitalism, imperialism, Libertarianism, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, shock doctrine

2 Sep 2008

The Audacity of Rhetoric

# posted by Bryan tags: Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Slavoj Zizek, U.S. Politics

Amy Goodman Arrested; Released, Tells Story

# posted by Bryan tags: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, journalism, protest, RNC, video, YouTube

1 Sep 2008

Sarah Palin’s Troubles

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: dailykos, Digg, John McCain, sarah palin

31 Aug 2008

Reflections on Seeing Leonard Cohen in Concert

# posted by Bryan tags: Leonard Cohen

Francis Bacon Interview

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: francis bacon, optimism, painting, video, YouTube

30 Aug 2008

Transcendental Revolution

# posted by Bryan tags: Althusser, capitalism, commodity fetishism, Communism, Gilles Deleuze, Marxism, negativity, Slavoj Zizek, transcendental revolution

Nick Cave’s Love Song Lecture

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: music, nick cave, songwriting

‘An insane choice’

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, barrack obama, elections, John McCain, sarah palin

29 Aug 2008

Flat Duo Jets

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: guitar, music, music videos, rockabilly, video, YouTube

28 Aug 2008

Guitar Praise

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: Christianity, guitar, video games

27 Aug 2008

Masao Yamamoto’s Nakazora

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: Japan, Masao Yamamoto, photography, picture

26 Aug 2008

New Census Numbers: Poverty, Income, & Health Insurance

# posted by Bryan tags: health insurance, income, poverty, U.S. Census Bureau

Control: The Fate of Joy Division

# posted by Bryan tags: Control, documentary, film, glam, Ian Curtis, Joy Division, music

25 Aug 2008

… in prison!

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: John McCain, new york times, obama, torture

24 Aug 2008

One Sentence Movie Reviews: The Last King of Scotland

# posted by Rachael Brown

Commemorating the Haitian Revolution

# posted by Bryan tags: blackness, colonialism, freedom, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, racism, slavery, white supremacy

Of course, I love adventure!

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: commercials, sonic the hedgehog, video, YouTube

23 Aug 2008

Joe Biden’s Big Break

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: picture

22 Aug 2008

The Curious World of the Last Stop

# posted by Bryan tags: metro, New York, public transit, urban ennui

Heartbreak Hotel

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen

21 Aug 2008

Strike!

# posted by Bryan tags: Alain Badiou, Communism, quote

Rick Perlstein: “A Liberal Shock Doctrine”

# posted by Bryan tags: progressivism, Rick Perlstein, shock doctrine, U.S. Politics

20 Aug 2008

The Bankruptcy of America, Starring Aquaman

# posted by Bryan tags: Ken Layne, Michael Phelps, U.S. Politics

141 Tiny Terror Combos Stolen

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: amps, guitar, theft

19 Aug 2008

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ Baby, I’m On Fire

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: bad seeds, music, music videos, nick cave, video, YouTube

18 Aug 2008

Banana Bread

# posted by Bryan tags: banana bread, food, recipes

Communism

# posted by Bryan tags: Communism, Frederic Jameson, Jean-Luc Nancy, Lenin, politics, Slavoj Zizek

Violence and its Vicissitudes

# posted by Bryan tags: Slavoj Zizek, violence

Worst Video on YouTube?

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: anime, music, music videos, ramones, video, YouTube

17 Aug 2008

Conclave Obscurum

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: art, painting

Reuters Published Fake Propaganda Photos

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: georgia, photography, Russia, USA, war

James Mollison’s The Disciples

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: concerts, fantasy, music, photography

The Most Trusted Man in America?

# posted by Bryan tags: Jon Stewart, media, The Daily Show

16 Aug 2008

Winehouse takes on Talented Musicians

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: alicia keys, amy winehouse, authenticity, commercialism, jack white, james bond, music

21st Century Hegel

# posted by Bryan tags: G.W.F. Hegel

14 Aug 2008

Zizek on Haiti: Democracy versus the People

# posted by Bryan tags: Bertrand Aristide, democracy, freedom, Haiti, Peter Hallward, populism, revolution, slavery, Slavoj Zizek, socialism

Psychoanalysis as Spirituality

# posted by Bryan tags: Patrick Lee Miller, psychoanalysis, secularism, spirituality

McCain and Obama’s Top 10 Songs

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen

Nerds Play Rock Band at Dylan Concert

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: Bob Dylan, CMU, rock band

13 Aug 2008

Is the Globalization Consensus Dead?

# posted by Bryan tags: capitalism, economy, globalization

The Rich Get Richer

# posted by Bryan tags: economy, neoliberalism, Reaganomics

12 Aug 2008

Psychological Mind Games at Guantanamo

# posted by Bryan tags: Guantanamo, imperialism, torture, U.S. Politics

11 Aug 2008

2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

# posted by Bryan tags: Beijing, China, photography, The Olympics

The La’s

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: Britain, guns, music, music videos, video, YouTube

Iraq Private Sector Falters; Rolls of Government Soar

# posted by Bryan tags: economy, Iraq, Keynesianism, neoliberalism

Morales Victorious in Bolivian Referendum

# posted by Bryan tags: Bolivia, developmentalism, Evo Morales, Latin America, socialism

The Private Lives of Franz K

# posted by Bryan tags: Franz Kafka

Stalinism Meets Global Capitalism

# posted by Bryan tags: Beijing, China, global capitalism, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Stalinism, The Olympics, totalitarianism

10 Aug 2008

Slavoj Zizek Interview in The Guardian

# posted by Bryan tags: interview, Slavoj Zizek

WSJ’s Recording Nonsense

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: albums, music industry, singles, wall street journal

9 Aug 2008

Statist Olympic Problems Are Bigger Than Beijing

# posted by Bryan tags: Beijing, capitalism, corporatism, nationalism, Olympics

8 Aug 2008

Adbusters: Pawn of Capital

# posted by Bryan tags: Adbusters, capitalism, counterculture, hipsterdom

Sambo Apparel

# posted by Bryan tags: American Apparel, blackface, fashion, minstrelsy, picture, racism

Mirrors Don’t Lie. Mislead? Oh, Yes.

# posted by Bryan tags: identity, mirrors, objects, psychoanalysis, science, selfhood, subjectivity

7 Aug 2008

“The Dark Knight” Has It Both Ways

# posted by Bryan tags: Batman, criticism, film, socialism, The Dark Knight

Einstein’s Brain

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: brains, genius

5 Aug 2008

Defending the 1960s

# posted by Bryan tags: 1960s, May 1968, socialism, student riots

Other-than-me, More-than-me, Other-than-mine

# posted by Bryan tags: displacement, found object, psychoanalysis, Winnicott

Iraq as Holiday Destination

# posted by Bryan tags: Basra, capitalism, imperialism, Iraq, propaganda, tourism

The Milton Friedman Institute

# posted by Bryan tags: academe, Milton Friedman, neoliberalism, University of Chicago

4 Aug 2008

The Dissident Solzhenitsyn

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: power, putin, Russia

2 Aug 2008

Obama and the Hecklers

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: obama, protest, video, YouTube

1 Aug 2008

The New York Times Covers 4chan

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: 4chan, humor, new york times

31 Jul 2008

A Suicide Note From The Music Industry

# posted by Bryan tags: Cory Doctorow, file sharing, music, piracy, technology

Who, We?

# posted by Bryan tags: academe, Communism, critical theory, deconstruction, feminism, Jodi Dean, Marxism, neoliberalism, political theory, politics, we

Bob and the Saint

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: Bob Dylan, god, photography, picture

29 Jul 2008

Kate Bush: Cloudbusting

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: cloudbusting, Kate Bush, orgones, video, Wilhelm Reich, YouTube

Jack White and Alicia Keys

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: alicia keys, Bob Dylan, jack white, james bond

What Would Allende Say?

# posted by Bryan tags: Chile, revolution, Salvador Allende, socialism

New Dylan “Bootleg Series”

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: Bob Dylan, free music, fungus

Bukowski on Poetry

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: video, YouTube

28 Jul 2008

Larry Summers is a Jackass

# posted by Bryan tags: capitalism, imperialism, Keynesianism, Larry Summers, neoliberalism, World Bank

The “Politicization” of the DoJ

# posted by Bryan tags: class struggle, corporatism, Department of Justice, depoliticization, George W. Bush, neoliberalism, politicization, sovereignty, the shock doctrine, the state of exception, U.S. Politics

Walnuts! McCain is Really Old

# posted by Bryan tags: John McCain, U.S. Politics

The Logic of the People

# posted by Bryan tags: class struggle, Communism, guerilla warfare, Mao Zedong, Maoism, quote

How To Write With Style

# posted by Bryan tags: Kurt Vonnegut, style, writing

26 Jul 2008

Crimes and Misdemeanors

# posted by Bryan tags: Alberto Gonzalez, crime, Department of Justice, Dick Cheney, domestic wiretapping, fascism, George W. Bush, imperialism, torture

Back to the Futura

# posted by Bryan tags: Barack Obama, Bauhaus, Berlin, Germany, Nazi Germany, typography

Cary Grant’s Suit

# posted by Bryan tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, film, North by Northwest

Conditions of Receptivity

# posted by Bryan tags: Badiou, Channels, Communication, critique, Deleuze, ideology, Individuation, Lacan, Marx, Materialism, politics, psychoanalysis, Slavoj Zizek

25 Jul 2008

John Gruber is a Jerk

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: apple, gruber, lyons, steve jobs

24 Jul 2008

Deflated Protest

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen

New Liner Notes by David Bowie

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen

23 Jul 2008

Has the “Surge” in Iraq Worked?

# posted by Bryan tags: Iraq, John McCain, Middle East, the surge, U.S. Politics

America’s Middle Class Can’t Take Much More Punishment

# posted by Bryan tags: capitalism, neoliberalism

19 Jul 2008

Ridgemont Typologies

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: capitalism, consumerism, photography

17 Jul 2008

Nobody’s A Critic

# posted by Bryan tags: criticism, Immanuel Kant

The “Far Left” is the Main Stream

# posted by Bryan tags: fantasy, political spectrum, populism, the media, U.S. Politics

Fed Raises Specter of Class Struggle

# posted by Bryan tags: capitalism, class struggle, Communism, globalization, Marxism, neoliberalism, socialism, U.S. economy

16 Jul 2008

Russians Vote Stalin as “Face of the Nation”

# posted by Bryan tags: Communism, Joseph Stalin, Russia, totalitarianism

Hundreds of Super Rich Under Investigation

# posted by Bryan tags: banking, capitalism, neoliberalism

Judas!

# posted by Bryan tags: advanced theory, In Defense of Lost Causes, Slavoj Zizek

14 Jul 2008

How Irreverent

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: picture

Bastille Day

# posted by Bryan tags: Bastille Day, democracy, France, Leonard Cohen, monarchy

Boney M’s Daddy Cool

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: video, YouTube

The Big Parallax

# posted by Bryan tags: Alan J. Pakula, film, film noir, parallax, Slavoj Zizek, The Parallax View, Watergate

The Tailor of Ulm

# posted by Bryan tags: Bertolt Brecht, Communism, Lucio Magri, New Left

13 Jul 2008

America: A Nation of Whiners

# posted by Bryan tags: capitalism, crisis, critique, John McCain, Marxism, neoliberalism, Phil Gramm, psychoanalysis, psychology, Stalin, whining

Believing is Seeing

# posted by Bryan tags: Errol Morris, imperialism, Iran, Iraq, photography, propaganda, U.S. Politics, war

Bush Backs Israeli Attack On Iran

# posted by Bryan tags: George W. Bush, Iran, Israel, U.S. Politics, war

A History of Hooch

# posted by Bryan

The Party of Torture

# posted by Bryan tags: Ann Coulter, GOP, imperialism, torture, U.S. Politics, waterboarding

11 Jul 2008

The Iranian Threat

# posted by Bryan tags: Iran, nukes, photoshop, picture

Ah-ah, eh-eh

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: video, YouTube

10 Jul 2008

The Second Gilded Age

# posted by Bryan tags: Bill Moyers, Gilded Age, imperialism, Mark Twain, neoliberalism, U.S. Politics

The Audacity of Listening

# posted by Bryan tags: Barack Obama, FISA, triangulation, U.S. Politics

9 Jul 2008

FISA Passed

# posted by Bryan tags: Barack Obama, domestic spying, FISA, U.S. Politics

Health Care for America NOW!

# posted by Bryan tags: U.S. Politics, universal healthcare

8 Jul 2008

Encounters at the End of the World

# posted by Bryan tags: Werner Herzog

7 Jul 2008

Neobamacon

# posted by Bryan tags: Barack Obama, foreign policy, neoconservatism, U.S. Politics

Moog Guitar is Bait for the Advanced

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen

The Symptom 9: Universalism vs. Globalization

# posted by Bryan tags: Heidegger, Jacques-Alain Miller, Lacan, psychoanalysis, The Symptom, Zizek

Horses & Hey Joe

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: guitar, music, music videos, patti smith, video, YouTube

Do Communists Have Better Sex?

# posted by Bryan tags: Communism, documentary, film, Germany, sex

5 Jul 2008

Disaster Capitalism: State of Extortion

# posted by Bryan tags: capitalism, imperialism, Iraq, Naomi Klein, oil, political economy

4 Jul 2008

Known Unknowns

# posted by Bryan tags: domestic wiretapping, U.S. Politics

Today We Celebrate Our Independence Day!

# posted by Bryan tags: video, YouTube

27 Jun 2008

Devo’s Mongoloid

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: devo, video, YouTube

26 Jun 2008

Get Disappointed By Someone New

# posted by Bryan tags: Barack Obama, disappointment, U.S. Politics

17 Jun 2008

The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner

# posted by Bryan tags: video, Werner Herzog, YouTube

27 May 2008

The Politicization of Disaster

# posted by Bryan

25 May 2008

Indiana Jones and the Family Myth

# posted by Bryan

12 May 2008

Zizek on Democracy Now! (Part II)

# posted by Bryan

10 Apr 2008

The Monks’ Cuckoo

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen tags: video, YouTube

8 Apr 2008

Radiohead’s Bangers and Mash

# posted by Mark Elliot Cullen