Criticism

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• A Call for Copyright Rebellion

  
  NEWSgrist - where spin is art — Authority: 129
    Image Via via Inside HigherEd : A Call for Copyright Rebellion November 6, 2009 — Steve Kolowich DENVER-- The manner in which copyright law is being applied to academe in thedigital age is destructive to the advancement of human knowledge andculture, and higher ...
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• Initial public offering

  
  Going against the current — Authority: 125
  http://salin.wordpress.comI once accompanied my friend, Chi Le, to one of the many ‘street bookstores’ in Hanoi. And there I was amazed at my first site of books, piled on top of each other beside a busy highway, by the world’s greatest writers: Borges, Sinclair Lewis, Camus, Flaubert, Hemingway, Buck in Tieng ...
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• hoodwinked

  
  bourgie, interrupted — Authority: 112
  I’m pretty disgusted right about now. I was asleep, knocked out due to my sickness and woke up at midnight to find that the House had passed a health care reform bill (HR 3962). Sounds good at first, especially since we have been trying to get SOME form of legislation moving through the process. Unfortunately, this ...
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• Barred Ronald

  
  Ian Bogost — Authority: 459
  — Is there a Lacanian matheme for this?... ( read more )
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• Blogger says Cuban agents beat her

  
  EndrTimes — Authority: 444
  November 7, 2009 10:14 a.m. EST Havana resident Yoani Sanchezs blog, "Generation Y," draws about 1 million hits a month. Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- A Cuban woman known for writing critical blogs about life in the communist nation said she was briefly detained by government agents Friday in the ...
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• Selling Out In Spades

  
  Feed THIS, Pal! — Authority: 124
  These commercials are cool. Theyre well done. Theyre clever. And that they would include Tommy Boy in that company, I thought was very flattering To be honest, I hadnt planned on discussing this commercial - having seen Tommy Boy once, and not being impressed, it seemed like an issue that could do without my ...
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• Twenty Years After The Fall

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 146
  Continued apologists for the communist monsters, particularly on the left and in academia. Imagine the uproar if Anita Dunn had said “…Hitler, one of my favorite personal philosophers.” And yet Mao murdered many more people, an order of magnitude more, than Hitler ever dreamed of killing.And unfortunately, the ...
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• Self Immolation And The Fort Hood Massacre

  
  INTANGIBLE MATERIALITY — Authority: 487
  The Name of War Is Legion "We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour, ...
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• ‘Utopianism for the powerful’

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 129
  The Atlantic blogger Ta-Nahisi Coates reacts to cries of “bigotry” after the election results in Maine: Conservatives pride themselves on their skepticism, and generally dismiss liberals as soft-headed Utopians. But in so many ways, political conservatism is Utopianism for the powerful. It isn’t broadly ...
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• The Mysterious Identity of Professor Layton

  
  Experience Points — Authority: 416
  Logic puzzles and mathematical word problems have long assumed an irritating role in my life: In grade school, they were the odious bits of the classroom I had to take home with me. If I was unfortunate enough for my Mom to decide that I was "wasting" my summer in front of the TV playing video games, I was greeted by ...
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• Controversial email blocklist SORBS sold

  
  Windows 2008 Security — Authority: 149
  GFI confirms purchase of reputation service GFI Software has confirmed the purchase of sometimes controversial spam blocklist provider SORBS for a reported $451,000. Spam and Open Relay Blocking System (SORBS) has maintained a list of email servers suspected of sending or relaying spam since 2002 Read the original ...
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• NewsBusted: Is George W. Bush Becoming More Popular?

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 814
  [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] – In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: Republicans, George W. Bush, CNN, Latino Employees, John Podesta, Marijuana, Snoop Dogg, Babies, Soul Train Awards, and Natalie Portman.
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• Cohabiting couple help criticised

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 461
  Plans to give millions of cohabiting couples better inheritance rights are coming in for criticism. View original here:  Cohabiting couple help criticised
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• Dudamel tackles Verdis Requiem

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 743
    Gustavo Dudamel is back in town, and Thursday night he conducted a magnificently theatrical performance of Verdi’s Requiem that felt like his first real concert as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic . All Los Angeles, of course, knows that last month Dudamel began his tenure with a free event at ...
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• Satire as Journalism

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 737
  Satire has long been part of discourse, with written records going back to the Ramesside Period of Ancient Egypt , and two primary classifications of satire originate with the Roman satirists Horace and Juvenal . Other notable historic figures have also been authors of significant satire, but not always with much ...
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• Featured: Sufjan Stevens’ film THE BQE [Vol. 2, #43]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 431
  “To See the Fissures and Hear the Rumblings” A Review of The BQE . a film by Sufjan Stevens. Reviewed by Chris Smith . The BQE . A film by Sufjan Stevens. Copyright 2009, Asthmatic Kitty Records. Buy now: [ Amazon ] “Listening ...
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• On the Universality of Art

  
  Precious Bodily Fluids — Authority: 414
  That unfortunately lofty title implies that there’s a lot more below it than there can reasonably or realistically be. However, after hundreds of consecutive posts of particular films (interspersed with little news items or trailers and the occasional comparative study), larger concerns keep getting caught in the ...
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• Best of lists take a beating – but what about critical honesty?

  
  Quill & Quire — Authority: 535
  On Salon.com, Laura Miller talks about the controversy over PW’s best ten books of 2009 being 100% male: What’s at issue isn’t sales or even access to readers; this is an argument about prestige and critical recognition, an argument best articulated by the novelist and critic Francine Prose in a 1998 ...
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• “Friends Of The Moon”

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 146
  Leonard David has the story of the budding lunar environmental movement.Is this stupid? Why yes, yes it is.
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• Primitive and Icy

  
  Deeper in the Game — Authority: 118
  Ganakagok is, “a quasi-Inuit Silmarillion as seen from the inside looking out”. A bunch of folks had recommended it as a great game. It uses a sort of tarot-system to set up the situation, the characters, and play out the game. I picked up a copy yesterday, as I’ve been meaning to check it out for sometime. ...
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