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How Should We Think About Economics Today ?

Note that the scientific approach (like the aristocratic one) is a quest for power for its own sake; in other words, it is the practice of black magic. Science transforms white magic into black when it turns the young childa€™s paranoid fantasy for total control into the real world. The bounds of the expanse of total power (and of black magic) is the economic requirement of performing a valuable service for others. This is the humility that the capitalist market expects of us so that the white magic of economics might deploy its beneficial effects.

Contrary to customary opinion, money is not an idol, it is instead the tempest that upsets idols. Unpredictable and uncontrollable, money is on the side of liberty because it does not recognise borders and it threatens all governments. It is spiritual because it tears us away from materialism.

To sum up, the subject matter of economy is simply the Soul of the world.

read the complete analysis at liberalia

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BOOCOO: be the change

A new cultural center has just sprung up around the corner from stomping grounds of years past- should be awesome! Offering space, classes in movement, music, words and nutrition, as well as a farming initiative and a new breath of air for the 5th Ward in Evanston.

Boocooa€™s diverse and multi-cultural programming addresses different aspects of human health, creativity and intellect. Boocoo has physical activity classes ranging from dance to martial arts, a recording studio with affordable rates, a music school, music production workshops, a digital lab, a performance space and a healthy cafA©. Each component of Boocoo is part of sustaining the center and creating a surplus that allows for content affordability. Sustainability at Boocoo means ensuring staff continuity and decent wages, program and center longevity, content accessibility for local residents and youth, minimal environmental footprint and ensuring participating artists, musicians and instructors, a solid student presence.

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knitting

Striking workers picket. Anti-war protesters rally and march. But lately, activists are turning to a new mantra-a€oeknit, purl and cast off.a€A

Once the preserve of little old grannies, knitting is re-emerging as a hip hobby. Fresh recruits are collaborating with experienced knitters to find a new function for this centuries-old craft: using knitted accessories to make political statements about everything from sweatshop labor and abortion to the Iraq war.

These protest organizers say knitting is a natural outlet for expressing political views.

a€oeKnitting has opened up activism for a lot of people,a€A said Gary Neufeld, founder of the Revolutionary Knitting Circle in Calgary, Canada. The circle started in 2002, when members staged a a€oeknit-ina€A in front of Calgarya€™s financial office buildings during the summit of G-8 industrialized nations.

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Posted: April 8th, 2007
at 2:10pm by Koookiecrumbles


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Tanzania: A Second-Hand Economy?

Used clothing is by far America’s largest export to Tanzania. Tanzanian cities are full of clothing markets selling Mitumba a€" used clothing from Americans and Europeans a€" which fetches a tidy profit for local vendors. Pietra Rivoli, international business professor at Georgetown University, explores how small Tanzanian entrepreneurs clothe the country with cast-off Western garments.

The most stunning scenery in Tanzania is not the savannah landscape, but the African women. They stand taller and prouder than women anywhere, perhaps from years of carrying bananas and flour on the tops of their heads, perhaps from years of holding the country together.

The white women a€" European backpackers, lunching diplomatic wives, missionary aid workers a€" fade away in comparison, graceless and silly in the shadow of the African queens.

Many of the African women in Dar Es Salaam are draped in the brilliantly colored native cloth, graceful folds wrapping their strong bodies and stronger spirits. They are brilliantly colored splashes across the poverty and grief of Tanzania.

The men are a muted background to this scenery. They work, or they sit under shade trees a€" not as proud, not as strong, not as busy. There are some men in Muslim skullcaps and a few in Indian dhotis, but none at all in traditional African dress.

Almost all of the men and boys in Dar Es Salaam wear mitumba-clothing thrown away by Americans and Europeans, and many are in T-shirts.

excerpt from theglobalist

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Posted: March 18th, 2007
at 10:16pm by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: myninjaplease,bling,web,clothes

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a€oeThe Monkey’s Pawa€A

Y2K plugs into the fears that have haunted Science Fiction since its inception, confirming anxieties that, as technological integration increases, human control lessens, and the possibility of something crashing the entire system grows. Here, SF disintegrates into cyberpunk. Where Science Fiction can be defined as the implementation of the project of Progressive Technology a€" a vision of uninhibited technological growth spreading out into a far future that has been speculatively planned a€" cyberpunk lurks in the near future, building itself out of the unanticipated consequences of technical development. It is essentially improvisational, feeding on glitches, interference and coincidences: as the runaway AI Wintermute tells Case in Gibson’s Neuromancer, a€oeplanning’s not my thing.a€A

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"convergence culture"

a€oeConvergence does not depend on any specific delivery mechanism. Rather, convergence represents a paradigm shift a€" a move from medium-specific content toward content that flows across multiple media channels, toward the increased interdependence of communications systems, toward multiple ways of accessing media content, and toward ever more complex relations between top-down corporate media and bottom-up participatory culture.a€A (243) thesis statement

a€oeWe are in a critical moment of transition during which old rules are open to change and companies may be forced to renegotiate their relationship to consumers.a€A (243)

a€oeRather than talking about personal media, perhaps we should be talking about communal mediaa€A (245)

a€oeJust as studying fan culture helped us to understand the innovations that occur on the fringes of the media industry, we may also want to look at the structures of fan communities as showing us new ways of thinking about citizenship and collaboration.a€A (246) BIG THESIS

a€oeThat is why it is so important to fight against the corporate copyright regime, to argue against censorship and moral panic that would pathologize these emerging forms of participation, to publicize the best practices of these online communities, to expand access and participation to groups that are otherwise being left behind, and to promote forms of media literacy education that help all children to develop the skills needed to become full participants in their culture.a€A (248) ADVOCACY THESIS

a€oeA politics of confrontation must give way to one focused on tactical collaboration.a€A (250)

a€oeConcentrated power is apt to remain concentrated. But we will see adhocracy principles applied to more and more different kinds of projectsa€A (256-7). Yes, but what about sabotage?

a€oeparticipation becomes an important political right.a€A (257). Yes. Why isna€™t there more of this in the book?

a€oeThe ideal of the informed citizen is breaking down because there is simply too much for any individual to know. The idea of monitorial citizenship depends on developing new skills in collaboration and a new ethic of knowledge sharing that will allow us to deliberate together.a€A (259). ok

a€oeOne of the ways we can shape the future of media culture is by resisting such disempowering approaches to media literacy education. We need to rethink the goals of media education so that young people can come to think of themselves as cultural producers and participants and not simply as consumers, critical or otherwise.a€A (259). Call to rethink media literacy

MESSAGE: rules redrawn. Negotiation. Resurgence of communal culture. Political implications. Key prescriptions = advocacy. Not sure how his corporate readers would react. Focus on negotiation, but doesna€™t jive with hardline advocacy. Convergence will save us all. We just need to help it happen.

too much information for one post at aramsinnreich.typepad

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jihad watch

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Posted: March 4th, 2007
at 12:03am by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: myninjaplease,clothes,design

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traditiona


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Posted: March 3rd, 2007
at 11:03pm by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: art,clothes

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we sold out

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Posted: February 25th, 2007
at 7:04pm by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: clothes

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