Why does Montreal smell like shit in the spring?
"The truth is I am escaping discussions,
because I no longer believe Marxism is a solution to the miseries of the world.
Because it does not cure man of violence. And it is only a solution to material
needs. In the process, as in the process of American pragmatism, all other
values are destroyed. Both countries exclude spiritual needs. America is in even
greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and
someday it may have to pay a terrible price for this, because atrophy of feeling
creates criminals."- Anais Nin, April
1940, New York City (The Diary of Anais Nin Volume Three,
1939-1944:28)
Quebec has spring in the air. Prague Spring, late
April '68 Spring in Paris. 180, 000 students on strike. Charest's
Provincial Liberals are trying to push through a neoliberal agenda of
privatization and tax cuts in education, transportation, health, services.
Union-breaking, poor-bashing, student thumping. The Francophone students are
fighting back. Even
McGill is getting into the action . [PGSS
strike] [SSMU strike] [Quebec Indymedia]
.When in doubt, burn the opposition
."Yes, Quebec students have it good in
an age where higher education is being gutted. That is why it is so important
for them to defend what they've got. [...] ... the protests also show that
bodies in the streets are still one of the most effective ways to register mass
outrage against outrageous government policies and to get issues back on the
table."[Jonathan Sterne, Professor in Communication Studies,
McGill, @ Bad
Subjects]Quebec student strikes in the '60s
."We both belong to
that generation whose political consciousness awoke during the Liberation, in
the enthusiasm and naivete and the conspiracy myths of fascism that came with
it. Also, the questions left unanswered by the aborted revolution of May '68
developed in a counter-point we found troubling: we were worried, like many
others, about the future being prepared for us by those singing the hymns of a
newly made-over fascism that would make you wish for the Nazis of the old
days."Felix Guattari with Gilles Deleuze
explaining the basis of ATP in an interview with Maurice Naudeau and others,
"Deleuze and Guattari Fight Back..." in _Desert Islands and Other Texts:
1953-1974_, Semiotext(e) 2004:
216-229.---- which is
why we play catch-up to the world's pollution of
history:I write for
MinLove.net
.Alain Badiou 57mg mp3
lecture of
"The Subject of Art" ///
=================================="What the fuck is/was that?
"Mat Jonson's brother and Daniel
Tate doing a "dress rehearsal" for their gig at Mint Restaurant in Victoria,
tonight (April 6- check it out
Andy!).Mat's brother's
tunes .
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.Burning Man from
space .I'm moving to
sweden. I'm gonna find me a gamer babe. After she kicks my ass at CS, we're
gonna make sweet sweet lovin' on sensible modern furniture I put together
myself. [from RASTA-BBQ
FOUNDER]PON ORCHESTRA
.Sarah :-)
.The Rough Guide to Baghdad. [The Nation].
by CHRISTIAN PARENTI
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posted. Thu - April 7, 2005 @ 07:42 PM
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