May 2012
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Dry winter may mean standpipes in 2013 →
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Returning to El Dorado →
Expect to see controls on African migration increase dramatically any time soon. Oh, and just to clarify: that’s migration TO Africa, not FROM Africa.
May 15th
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Are export processing zones the new sweatshops, or...
Giant export factories like those in Bangladesh are great for foreign firms, but the benefits for local workers are less obvious Where does Nike make its trainers? Or Wrangler its jeans? In the same place Raleigh make its bikes, Philip Morris makes its cigarettes, Korean companies make LED lights, and giant corporations like Walmart, Mothercare, Tesco and Reebok make practically everything from...
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Bennett: MOO (Materialist-Oriented Ontology) →
Bennett: MOO (Materialist-Oriented Ontology), wordpress.com Of all the peo­ple work­ing in the new mate­ri­al­ist and real­ist ori­en­ta­tions with which I am famil­iar (SR broad­ly con­strued), I prob­a­bly feel the great­est affin­i­ty with the thought of Ben­nett and Bogost. And here I has­ten to add th…
May 7th
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“We call our dialectic, materialist, since its roots are neither in heaven nor in...”
– ABC of Materialist Dialectics by Leon Trotsky
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space
“The vast shanty towns of Latin America manifest a social life far more intense that the bourgeois districts of the cities” - Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space
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