March 2010
59 posts
Atwood in the Twittersphere
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood, tweeting aboard the Queen Mary 2, August 2009
A long time ago—less than a year ago in fact, but time goes all stretchy in the Twittersphere, just as it does in those folksongs in which the hero spends a night with the Queen of Faerie and then returns to find that a hundred years have passed and all his friends are dead…. Where was I?
Oh yes. A long time...
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6 Ways We’re Already Geoengineering Earth →
azspot:
Scientists and policymakers are meeting this week to discuss whether geoengineering to fight climate change can be safe in the future, but make no mistake about it: We’re already geoengineering Earth on a massive scale.
From diverting a third of Earth’s available fresh water to planting and grazing two-fifths of its land surface, humankind has fiddled with the knobs of the Holocene,...
Suggested Reading for Pop Life 007: April 4, 2010
poplifereadings:
Please complete Wendy Brown’s discussion of Neoliberalism (download here) and any additional material you find interesting below.
Session 007 will take place from 5 to 6pm, Sunday April 4 at Hidmo Eritrean Cuisine, 20th & Jackson, Seattle. Pop Life invites all participants to purchase a beverage or meal with the session in respect of Hidmo’s generous gift of space for...
Suggested reading for Pop Life 006: March 21
poplifereadings:
Wendy Brown, “Neoliberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy” (7 MB pdf file).
Recommended Sources: Podcasts
poplifereadings:
Professor David Harvey has offered a 14-week reading of Karl Marx’s CAPITAL, v. 1 every year for the last 40 years. Find a set of his lectures offered as podcasts here: Reading Capital.
Lecture #8 is particularly relevant to the POP LIFE conversations.
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The Brain Science podcast series hosted by Ginger Campbell, MD is another excellent source of current inquiry...
Suggested Reading for Pop Life 005: March 14
poplifereadings:
Freeman Dyson’s “Our Biotech Future”, a review of Carl Woese’s essay (find a link below in Session 004 notes).
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“Electronic music has changed everything for me and for dance. Until now, the...”
– Merce Cunningham, interview with Libération. Quoted in Virilio, The Art of the Motor. (via marxistsinspace)
Worldchanging: Pushing Back Against the Methane... →
Methane is 20 times more greenhousy than carbon-dioxide.
When the permafrost melts in the artic: uh oh!
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