thanks for the Sunday Reading nod (“Fact and Fetish”)!
sincerely,
TMR
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“Fear of the Collective”: Liz McArthur for The Media Res
These icons of capitalism stood in stark contrast to the reality for many Hondurans. Who can afford to eat at fast food outlets in Honduras? The majority of the population is too poor. We visited homes that were clean, but almost devoid of material possessions. We were met with warm hospitality, but never extravagance. We made a stop at the “rich people’s mall” while one of the delegates was looking for a shirt to buy. It was the equivalent of a regular North American mall, complete with designer outlets. People milled about: just hanging out or trying on clothes. Some of my group commented that it was a good place to go whether or not you were buying anything. The air conditioning worked well and security was tight.
http://www.themediares.com/pages/civitas/fear-of-the-collective.html
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It’s a partttaaayyyy #hbdzizek
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This Thursday, March 21st, the most dangerous philosopher in the west turns 64. Help us make Žižek’s birthday one for the archives of history (or Twitter). TMR will be celebrating by throwing him a digital birthday party - to join the festivities, starting at 12am on March 21st we are asking that you tweet @themediares your favorite 140 character Žižek quotes, the most shocking, scandalous, or hilarious Žižek video footage you can find, images, homemade photomontages, or anything else that strikes your Žižek-fancy (“and so on and so on”) with the hashtag #hbdzizek.
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Issues of Scale
“Viewers of maps remain very much on the outside of the process of exploration, disconnected from the sense of walking along lakeshores, sailing up coastlines, or experiencing anything at an on-ground level. It is as if viewers of maps are spectators from space, disconnected from a sense of their own locatedness within the map they are viewing.”
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A Whale of a Tale
Emily Smith reviews ‘Rust and Bone’ for TMR:
“While the relationships in the film are implicated in a game of who is who and what is what, the film’s depiction of human dependency on animals, humans as animals, animals as more humane than humans themselves—suggests categories that are neither solved by the film nor ignored. Animals are the object of sympathy and abuse, the source of terror and inspiration, with the notion of “the animal” in the film operating both pejoratively but also as a mysterious category that is consistently dismantled as characters struggle to maintain it, if only to resist descending into their own brutish behavior.”
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The one door that seems to be open to us is the field of resource-extraction/environment destruction. Hurray.
“In this standing in, in the affirmation of their tradition and denial of the colonial state model, Idle No More may well provide for us, as citizens of Canada, the means to have a conversation about the present State model we’re working within. And it is a conversation that my generation desperately needs to have! My generation, recently described by Maclean’s magazine as “the most cultivated underclass in history,” is a generation that has been well groomed for an economy that doesn’t exist. Well schooled in theory, we lack access to either property or capital. The one door that seems to be open to us is the field of resource-extraction/environment destruction. Hurray.”
Matthew Cook for TMR
