On Wednesday Fox New’s Glenn Beck launched into a wonderful tirade against The Coming Insurrectionby the anonymous Invisible Committee, a “dangerous book” about to be published in English by Semiotext(e)/MIT Press. Originally published in French in 2007, it has since been used as a crucial piece of evidence against the so-called Tarnac 9 in a controversial anti-terrorism trial in [...]
Category Archives: Politics
Formulary for a New Urbanism
July 1, 2009 – 7:28 am
SIRE, I AM FROM THE OTHER COUNTRY We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That’s lost. We know how to read every promise in faces — the [...]
Why I’m voting for the Pirate Party by Lars Gustafsson
June 11, 2009 – 11:21 am
This week Sweden’s Pirate Party won a seat in the European Parliament, receiving over 7% of the Swedish vote. The party was created on the first day of 2006 with a platform based on the desire “to fundamentally reform copyright law, get rid of the patent system, and ensure that citizens’ rights to privacy are [...]
