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Wacht Auf!

By Anton Steinpilz ⋅ March 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Looks like the first of the G-20 protests are underway. EuroNews 24 reports that the G20 march, which signals the beginning of a week of protests, started today: Thousands of demonstrators gathered to march through London on Saturday to demand action on poverty, jobs and climate change at the start of a week of protests [...]

Annexing Bohemia

By Anton Steinpilz ⋅ March 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Whither away the American intellectual? The American public intellectual didn’t so much disappear as was transformed, or was perhaps transmogrified, under an increasingly puissant regime of Capital in its post-industrial iteration, where emphasis shifted from production to consumption. Consequence: the expanding hegemony of consumerism gradually eroded the public intellectual’s function to such an extent that [...]

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