http://notlefttochance.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:51:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am writing at Wordpress.com now. The site is up and running here. http://notlefttochance.blogsome.com/2009/03/15/moved/ Today I read this in Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now : …the very web-like structure of the Web often makes it difficult to determine where texts end – or begin, for that matter. All the cutting and ... http://notlefttochance.blogsome.com/2009/03/13/melts-into-air/ Bill Mayer — He loves his mother!! I thought I’d start with that. Religulous, a film by the same people who made Borat, and Borat, too, was purposefully offensive, and it, too, was funny, but it never, not for a second took itself seriously. Borat showed us into some very ... http://notlefttochance.blogsome.com/2009/03/11/he-loves-his-mother/ Murray Bookchin on the 1960s. In The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy . Almost intuitively, new values of sensuousness, new forms of communal lifestyle, change in dress, language, music, all borne on the wave of a deep sense of impending social change, infused a sizable section of ... http://notlefttochance.blogsome.com/2009/03/01/waves-of-consciousness/ Norm Friesen’s "Heritage of Edupunk" February 2009     Gramsci says everyone: contributes to sustain a conception of the world or to modify it, that is, to bring into being new modes of thought. Benjamin: …the distinction between author and public is about to lose its basic character. Friere: The answer does not ... http://notlefttochance.blogsome.com/2009/02/25/112/ John Gibler presented his work, Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt at SFU, Monday February 16, on his North American book tour. Howard Zinn has this to say about Gibler’s book: Gibler shares the voices, stories, and communal dignity of the ordinary Mexicans who are putting their lives at risk ... http://notlefttochance.blogsome.com/2009/02/18/no-fue-facil-nos-costo/ Richard Stallman spoke on the issue of community and copyright law. After Kate Milberry asked if the practice of software development and sharing he’d been talking about can be applied in the wider world. Stallman replied that his whole talk has been about that very question. Stallman refused to make ... http://notlefttochance.blogsome.com/2009/02/17/ending-the-war-on-sharing/ Here’s Steve Anderson and Kris Krug (sitting) at January’s Net Tuesday. They’re letting Vancouver’s social net scene in on the issue of Net Neutrality. (You can read all about it on humminbird604’s blog.) The two of them are also in ... http://notlefttochance.blogsome.com/2009/02/09/net-neutrality-info/ New illegal signage bylaw may silence free speech. See Changes to … “Add clause 17 that states none of the above applies to protests, demonstrations, political picketing or political theatre,” said Shaw. “Then we will all know where we stand.” http://notlefttochance.blogsome.com/2009/02/07/where-do-we-stand/ Jean-Paul Sartre wrote these bits in 1961: The European elite undertook to manufacture a native elite. They picked out promising adolescents; they branded them, as with a red-hot iron, with the principles of Western Culture; they stuffed their mouths full with high-sounding phrases, grand ... http://notlefttochance.blogsome.com/2009/01/30/preface-to-the-wretched-of-the-earth/