BLURB OF THE MONTH: Zizek however critiqes Hardt and Negri, somewhat unfairly contending that "Negri himself, the guru of the postmodern left, praises digital capitalism as containing in nuce all the elements of communism - one only has to drop the capitalist form and the revolutionary goal is acheived."A JUNKIE'S LIFE FOR ME: "...Again and again and again a hotel room catches fire, sometimes just after one of Richards's houses burns - don't you just hate it when that happens? - and it's always a mouse eating through the … [Read more...]
ALMOST LOST DETROIT
March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
--from David Hajdu's The Famous Door blog on New Republic's site. … [Read more...]
HATE TO AGREE WITH ROBERT GATES BUT
March 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Image via WikipediaLate last week, at a talk he gave at West Point, Secretary of Defense Gates made the most remarkable statement. After underlining "the strategic rationale for swift-moving expeditionary forces" in the future, he added, "But in my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as General MacArthur so delicately put it." Now, if we were out of Afghanistan - win, lose, or draw - and Gates had been … [Read more...]
