"The forty-year period on which this book focuses, from 1490 to 1530, saw greater and greater influxes of capital through this framework of economic institutions. Any one of these processes was a major development in its own right: Scholars have spent decades, centuries even, writing and arguing about them. There are good reasons for this. The ( Read more... )

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Nearly 1,800 Americans directly affected by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are opposing President Joe Biden’s participation in any memorial events this year unless he upholds his pledge to declassify U.S. government evidence that they believe may show a link between Saudi Arabian leaders and the attacks ( Read more... )

Originally posted by boingboing_net at Photos of abandoned discotheques

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Source: http://farfuturehorizons.blogspot.com/2014/10/man-conquers-space.html

Originally posted by boingboing_net at Atomic Overlook: a photo series by Clay Lipsky

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Thursday, January 3, 2013

I’ve often asked the question, 'how did we go from a species of relative egalitarianism to one of kings, emperors, serfs and slaves?' This article from Bloomberg about China's "princelings" provides a fascinating real-world insight to how a society of relative egalitarianism and equality, with rulers who lived among the ( Read more... )

From London Review of Books ..stolen while still free..
Vol. 32 No. 24 · 16 December 2010
Adam Shatz

• Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives by François Dosse, translated by Deborah Glassman
  Columbia, 651 pp, £26.00, August 2010, ISBN 978 0 231 14560

The ‘philosophy of desire’ was born in 1969, Serge Gainsbourg’s année érotique, when the ( Read more... )

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