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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary

Books of Interest: News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media by Juan González, and Joseph Torres

Posted on January 14, 2012 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.versobooks.com/books/949 “A landmark narrative history of American media that puts race at the center of the story. News for All the People is a sweeping account of the class and racial conflicts in American news media, from the first colonial … Continue reading →

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Books of Interest: News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media by Juan González, and Joseph Torres

Posted on January 14, 2012 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.versobooks.com/books/949 “A landmark narrative history of American media that puts race at the center of the story. News for All the People is a sweeping account of the class and racial conflicts in American news media, from the first colonial … Continue reading →

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Books of Interest:Wittgenstein’s Anti-Philosophy by Alain Badiou Translated by Bruno Bosteels

Posted on January 14, 2012 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.versobooks.com/books/961-wittgensteins-anti-philosophy “The leading continental philosopher takes on the standard bearer of analytical philosophy. Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the “linguistic turn” in modern philosophy, and anatomizes the “anti-philosophy” of Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Addressing the … Continue reading →

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Books of Interest:Wittgenstein’s Anti-Philosophy by Alain Badiou Translated by Bruno Bosteels

Posted on January 14, 2012 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.versobooks.com/books/961-wittgensteins-anti-philosophy “The leading continental philosopher takes on the standard bearer of analytical philosophy. Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the “linguistic turn” in modern philosophy, and anatomizes the “anti-philosophy” of Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Addressing the … Continue reading →

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Books of Interest: Wittgenstein in Exile by James C. Klagge

Posted on January 14, 2012 by stephenkmacksd

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12582 “Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) and Philosophical Investigations (1953) are among the most influential philosophical books of the twentieth century, and also among the most perplexing. Wittgenstein warned again and again that he was not and would not be … Continue reading →

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On the Significance of Bain Capital by Almost Marx

Posted on January 13, 2012 by stephenkmacksd

Bain Capital is an expression of a capitalism without a root in any community and most especially with no investment in the central notion of citizenship, of the cultivation of civic republican virtue, as basic, foundational to their endeavor. That … Continue reading →

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Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan

Posted on January 12, 2012 by stephenkmacksd
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David Brooks: Where Are the Liberals? by Political Observer

Posted on January 11, 2012 by stephenkmacksd

If the reader of David Brooks latest essay at The New York Times is looking for intelligent,cogently argued rejoinders to his conservative opinionating, that reader need only look at the comments section posted below his column on the Times website. … Continue reading →

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The Abandoned House series by Leggo

Posted on January 9, 2012 by stephenkmacksd

http://koikoikoi.com/2012/01/the-abandoned-house-series-made-of-lego/  

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Gil Scott-Heron in 2010. Photograph: Anthony Barboza

Posted on January 8, 2012 by stephenkmacksd

A great American artist!

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