“Every festival poster one notices these days features a litany of band’s names rendered as logos. This seep of branding into the music industry has been subtle to the degree of invisibility. The overwhelming temptation is to view it as a wholly unwelcome intrusion of corporate advertising tactics—and there is certainly an element of that, but thankfully the history is more nuanced”.
Matthew Ingram@stylusmagazine

“Welcome to Consumer Consequences, our interactive game designed to illustrate the impact of our lifestyles on the Earth. It’s part of American Public Media’s special series, “Consumed,” which explores whether the modern American lifestyle is sustainable in the long run. Consumer Consequences will ask you a series of questions about your lifestyle, and as you play, it will show you how many “Earths” of natural resources it would take to sustain all 6.6 billion humans… if everyone lived like you.”

Consumer Consequences@publicradio.org

“Sixties enthusiasts can appreciate where the Inspirals were coming from when they first burst onto the scene. The swirling organ sound, the fuzz guitars, the soaring harmonies and bowl haircuts were a throwback to 60s garage punk bands. They turned into a fine singles band, chalking hit after hit, outlasting many of the more critically acclaimed contemporaries.” Clint Boon Interview@Ready-Steady-Go!

Inspiral Carpets – She Comes In The Fall (12″ version)
Life
Mute Records – 1990
Cómprenlo@amazon.com

“THE UK is preparing a “land grab” of tens of thousands of square miles of ocean floor off the Islas Malvinas to annex potentially lucrative gas, mineral and oil fields. The claims, which are set to be lodged at the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, exploit a novel legal approach that is transforming the international politics of underwater prospecting.” From Scotsman.com

Las islas Malvinas, Georgias del Sur y Sandwich del Sur son argentinas.

“Please, please, I tell myself, leave Orwell out of it. Find some other, fresher way to explain why “Operation Iraqi Freedom” is dependent upon killer mercenaries. Or why the “democratically elected government” of “liberated” Iraq does not explicitly have the legal power to expel Blackwater USA from its land or hold any of the 50,000 private contractor troops that the US government has brought to Iraq accountable for their deadly actions.”

Robert Scheer@The Nation

“In a bilingual culture, Sommer explained, languages cross-pollinate each other, with words, grammar, and assumptions. This enriches each language and helps those living near both gain an appreciation of the others’ culture. Often, both cultures and languages coexist within a single person, creating what Sommer terms fascinating aesthetic effects. Everyone knows Kafka was an innovator in German. Where does he get his inspiration? It turns out his Yiddish and Hebrew echoed in his head while writing German”

Doris Sommer@Harvard Gazette
Two Languages Are Better Than One@The Guardian
New Reaserch@BBC News

“Seemingly different diseases can sometimes share a common cause. Tumours of all sorts, for example, are clusters of cells run out of control, dividing incessantly. Over the past decade, another unifying medical principle has emerged. It holds that many diseases of the central nervous system—including Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s and Parkinson’s diseases—also share a mechanism. Instead of non-stop proliferation, the theme in this case is rubbish-disposal gone wrong.” Link@economist

Prions: On The Trail Of Killer Proteins@University of Utah
About Prion Diseases@CDC
Prion Pictures@Mad Cow

“On the surface the Situationists appear as extremely cynical fatalists. They began by condemning as redundant and articulately destroying anything that came before them. Everything from the Surrealists and the Beat Generation fell in their wake. Yet they had a fundamental, utopian belief that the bad days will end. Their criteria was basically, “if we explain how the nightmare works, everyone will wake up!”. An inevitable optimism absent, by the very fact of their existence, from traditional political groups: who always operate on the premise that people are too thick to decide for themselves.” Guide@nothingness.org

More@Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination