Hundreds of UK Climate Activists Blockade Oil Refineries
Today hundreds of climate activists taking part in the Crude Awakening day of action have successfully blockaded the Coryton and Shell Haven oil refineries in Essex, including the UK's busiest oil refinery and distribution centre.
FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back Kim Zetter, wired.com
A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was being targeted in a terrorism investigation and what the authorities would do.
Fractal Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot Dead at 85
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Benoit Mandelbrot, a pioneer in fractal mathematics and the person who coined the term, has died in Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 85.
Aliette Mandelbrot told The New York Times her husband suffered from pancreatic cancer and died Thursday in Cambridge.
A Sanctuary for the Arts: Judson Memorial Church and the Avant-Garde 1954-1977
October 28, 2010 to January 7, 2011 at the Fales Archive in the NYU Library.
Anarchism DemystifiedRalph Shaw
Although the anarchists are unanimous in their detestation of state-sponsored capitalism, they have divergent views on capitalism if state sponsorship is removed. To the individualists, the evil is not capitalism itself, rather it is the collusion between the state and those who own capital.
Musopen Is Freeing Classical Music From the Chains of Copyright David Bollier, On the Commons
Ludwig von Beethoven died 183 years ago. So why is his music still locked behind copyrights and not available for free to everyone? Because even if the music itself is in the public domain, the recordings of his music, or perhaps the sheet music (with special arrangements or notation) can be copyrighted by the orchestras that perform the music or the composers who notate it.
News Outlets Follow NPR's Lead: No Staffers at Stewart and Colbert RalliesNate Freeman, NY Observer
After a memo banning staffers from attending rallies — specifically the two high-profile ones to be orchestrated by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert later this month — made its way around the internet and collected backlash in its swath, NPR is trying to get other news outlets to join its side of the fight.
IMF Considers Replacing the Dollar as Key CurrencyTelepolis
Introduction of a World Currency Could Follow Attacks on the Dollar Ralf Streck
Scott McLemee Reviews Richard Wolin's "Wind From the East"
The National
The Chinese revolution's influence on French thinking
"The Wind from the East" examines the effect on the Chinese Cultural
Revolution on French political and philosophical discourse, writes Scott
McLemee
The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution,
and the Legacy of the 1960s
Richard Wolin, Princeton University Press
During even the coldest years of the Cold War, there were small circles,
far to the left of the communists, who warmed themselves with the
thought of revolutionary socialism. To be sure, they meant by this
something bearing no resemblance to the monstrosity embodied in those
regimes where May Day was celebrated with tanks and choreographed
expressions of obligatory mass cheer. Their egalitarianism was
essentially libertarian, and vice versa. In France, one such group was
led by Cornelius Castoriadis, who had, in the 1940s and 1950s, analysed
the Stalinist system as a form of what he called “bureaucratic
capitalism” – fit only to be abolished by revolts from below.
A Book Burning -- To honor the recent publication of the book Introduction to Civil War by Tiqqun. with your hosts Alexander Galloway and Jason Smith October 20th @ 8:00pm
at ISSUE PROJECT ROOM, 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn http://www.issueprojectroom.org
Free admission
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