Tag: politics

• Net Neutrality and Hip Hop

  Davey D An Open Letter to Hip Hop About Some Real Important Shyt Dear Folks who say they Love Hip Hop, I wish there was a way to make this issue of Net Neutrality more interesting. I wish there was a way to spice it up and make it compelling like some sort of beef […]

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  June 16, 2006

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  activism, Black Panther, CNN, Congress, corporation, Davey D, Fox News, Hip-hop, Ice Cube, internet, iTunes, Jay-Z, KRS-One, MySpace, net neutrality, Oakland, Oprah, politics, RIAA, Senate, Steve Jobs, telcos, Verizon

• The Haditha Massacre, Media and Patterns of Warfare

  With the massacre of Haditha already drawing comparisons to the My Lai massacre — where up to 500 unarmed Vietnamese men, women and children were killed in cold blood by American forces — proponents of this war are holding fast against this incident becoming the tipping point of complete anti-war sentiment. Local blogger, Joe Guarino: […]

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  June 4, 2006

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  9-11, advertising, Afghanistan, America, capitalism, Esquire, government, Haditha, Iraq War, Islam, Israel, Jihad, journalism, massacre, Muslim, My Lai, New World Order, Palestine, politics, Propaganda Model, Richard Nixon, terrorism, Ummah, video, Vietnam War, William Calley

• Tree Is Not Arbol (Unless You Add Silly String)

  Bill Readings introduced me to semiotics in my undergraduate days at Syracuse University. His class was Contemporary Literary Theory, a 200 level course, so nowhere near enough knowledge to rest a proper degree upon, which was fine—Bill held space for us to focus for a few hours a week, learning how to both listen and […]

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  May 17, 2006

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  Bill Readings, Blade Runner, deconstruction, Ferdinand de Saussure, information architecture, internet, knowledge, linguistics, philosophy, politics, postmodernism, Roland Barthes, tagging

• Charles Mingus: The Art Of Composed Politics

  Last September, I happened upon Michal Levy’s brilliant computer animation of the Coltrane classic, Giant Steps. After reading John Amato’s latest musical post on John Coltrane, I figured John and his audience would dig it. Thanks for the h/t, John. Now, if you’re truly a political head, yet only a casual a fan of jazz, […]

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  May 7, 2006

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  animation, Charles Mingus, Giant Steps, Jazz, John Coltrane, music, politics

• The Life Span Of A Perspective

  SOHH.com, Jane Bolden Ecko Responds to Vegas Mayor’s Thumb Chopping Suggestion… […] Last week, (Marc) Ecko, chairman and founder of Ecko Unltd., approached Mayor Goodman about his comments via a letter titled “Re: Taggers, Thumbs and Graffiti Art.” “You recently suggested chopping off tagger’s thumbs and subjecting them to public canings and whippings,” Ecko wrote […]

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  May 6, 2006

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  community, expression, graffiti, Malcolm Gladwell, Marc Ecko, politics, tagging