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Magazine Roundup (14/12/2010) – signandsight

The Nation | El Espectador | Outlook India | Eurozine | London Review of Books | Magyar Narancs | Salon.com | Polityka | The Economist | Lettre International | openDemocracy | La regle du jeu | The New Yorker | … Continue reading

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How to get ahead as a Republican in 2010 – War Room

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Guide to Reality: Meillassoux: A Foundation of Absolute Contingency

gtreality I liked this provocative paper discussing the implications of nonlocality from Nicolas Gisin http://arxiv.org/abs/101… 5 days ago reply via guidetoreality.blogspot.com

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After Finitude (2008) « Refracted input

Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An essay on the necessity of contingency. Trans. Ray Brassier. London: Continuum, 2008 After Finitude by Quentin Meillassoux This book written by a young French philosopher has been taken up with great enthusiasm by a small … Continue reading

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LENIN’S TOMB: Stop the presses… for good.

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The Crisis of the American Intellectual

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/12/08/the-crisis-of-the-american-intellectual/ If you read this long article By Walter Russell Mead you must read the devastating reply by Frank, listed as reply #8. It is masterful. Frank is on his game, and takes the space that he needs to really … Continue reading

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Funding illegal Israeli settlements? Priceless. | Crikey

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My hero Cy Twombly by Edmund de Waal | Books | The Guardian

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On Nixon Tapes, Disparaging Remarks About Ethnic Groups

  via nytimes.com Here is the utterly abhorrent Richard Nixon, showing the prejudices of a certain generation of American males, and their obsessive stereotyping of all others who were not them. Nixon’s policies almost look ‘progressive’ compared to the Republican … Continue reading

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Keeping Secrets WikiSafe

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