February 2012
27 posts
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To...”
– Arundhati Roy (via solitaryforager)
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion....”
– Harlan Ellison (via sirmitchell)
“For anarchists who do know something about anthropology, the arguments are all...”
– David Graeber (via slamdanceonyourgrave)
I actually consider David Graeber one of the foremost contemporary anarchist theorists, which is weird because he is primarily and unapologetically an anthropologist. This quotation is from “Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology” (pdf), which is short and...
“The famous ‘going beyond’ Marxism in an idealistic and humanitarian direction is...”
– Albert Camus, The Self-Deception of the Socialist (via fuckyeahemergence)
January 2012
69 posts
Brazil Drafts An 'Anti-ACTA': A Civil Rights-Based... →
solitaryforager:
One of the striking features of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is that it is mainly being signed by Western/“developed” countries – with a few token players from other parts of the world to provide a fig-leaf of nominal inclusiveness. That’s no accident: ACTA is the last-gasp attempt of the US and the EU to preserve their intellectual monopolies – copyright and patents,...
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“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
– Dr. Suess (via sirmitchell)
The next SOPA →
The MPAA studios hate us. They hate us with region locks and unskippable screens and encryption and criminalization of fair use. They see us as stupid eyeballs with wallets, and they are entitled to a constant stream of our money. They despise us, and they certainly don’t respect us.
Yet when we watch their movies, we support them.
Even if we don’t watch their movies in a theater or buy their...
Under ACTA, airport officials would be allowed to... →
cultureofresistance:
Michael Geist sez, “The leak of the full consolidated ACTA [ed: the secrete global copyright treaty] text will provide anyone interested in the treaty with plenty to work with for the next few weeks. While several chapters have already been leaked and discussed, the consolidated chapter provides a clear indication of how the negotiations have altered earlier proposals as...
