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Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: On the Pleasures of Not Belonging, or Notes on Interstitial Art (Part Two) about 3 hours ago
- Subcultures break down into smaller subcultures, niches become smaller niches in an eternal dance between our desire to differentiate ourselves from and affiliate ourselves with others who share our tastes
- there's enormous anger directed at any writer who asks a reader to read a story that doesn't deliver what was promised and, even worse, gives them something they didn't ask for.
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- - The pleasure, he says, is in toggling between multiple interpretations, not knowing what kind of story we are reading: there was a ghost; the narrator was crazy; or in the Scooby-Doo version, it was all a scheme by the guy who runs the old amusement park.
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: On the Pleasures of Not Belonging, or Notes on Interstitial Art (Part One) about 3 hours ago
- What I love about the folks who have embraced interstitial arts is that some of them do comics, some publish romances, some compose music, some write fantasy or science fiction, but all of them are perfectly comfortable thinking about things other than their areas of specialization.
- They started to write the stories they wanted to be able to read, only to be told by their publisher that their book would sell much more quickly if it could be positioned into this publishing category for this intended audience and to achieve that you just need to cut back on this, expand on that, and add a little more of this other thing.
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- - In the Russian formalist tradition that shaped my own early graduate education, we didn't speak of "rules"; we spoke of "norms," with the understanding that a work only achieved its fullest potential when it, in some way, "defamiliarized" our normal ways of seeing the world and ordering our experience
  - Anderson speaks about the interstitial as "prickly, tricky, ornery," while Stinson sees it as welcoming, "nurturing," joyous, and "receptive." One stresses radical breaks from the genre system, while the other is negotiating a space for singular passions within the system.
Arendt on the Political Lie (Harper's Magazine) about 3 hours ago
- The historian knows how vulnerable is the whole texture of facts in which we spend our daily life; it is always in danger of being perforated by single lies or torn to shreds by the organized lying of groups, nations, or classes, or denied and distorted, often carefully covered up by reams of falsehoods or simply allowed to fall into oblivion.
ISPA slams Mandy's copyright land grab • The Register about 7 hours ago
- Mandelson's bill gives him power to change copyright laws as he sees fit, using a statutory instrument rather than a pesky old debate in Parliament.
- Lansman also said: “Rather than focusing blindly on enforcement, the Government should be asking rights holders to reform the licensing framework so that legal content can be distributed online to consumers in a way that they are clearly demanding.”
Grappling with Contractor Immunity—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) about 22 hours ago
- The contractor got the judgment vacated on the grounds that the court had no in personam jurisdiction to handle the suit. Watching the lawyers for the contractor high-five one another was almost as painful an experience as the first word of his son’s death, Mr. Baragona said.
- The contractor, it turned out, had been completely immunized for its wrongful acts.
LRB · Bernard Porter · Other People’s Mail about 22 hours ago
- MI5 remained officially secret for 80 years
- They certainly did not know when MI5 extended its remit from counter-espionage to counter-‘subversion’ during and after the First World War
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- - MI5, which was staffed mainly by officers, similarly relied very largely on the colonies. Andrew writes that 65 per cent of MI5 officers were recruited directly from ‘the administrative services of newly independent colonies’ between 1955 and 1965; take that back to the beginning, and include the colonial police and military, and you probably come close to 100 per cent.
  - to preserve confidentiality and esprit de corps, MI5 recruited only on the basis of personal recommendation, and consequently from its own class and type.
  - It had two further results. One was to give MI5 a very narrow social base, and the political culture that was almost bound to adhere to that. Andrew calls it ‘introverted’. There is strong evidence that it was pretty right-wing, and suspicious of the Labour Party in the early years: partly because Labour might want to clip its wings, but also because the party’s policies were seen as either intrinsically subversive, or peculiarly subvertible
  - MI5 was bound to be a likely suspect: highly secretive, socially exclusive, largely unaccountable, right-wing, reputedly clever, and with all kinds of tricks up its sleeve, like ‘deniability’ – not to mention subcontracting its dirtier jobs to other agencies
  - The more mistakes Andrew can uncover, the more MI5 can learn from them, and the more important therefore it makes his (and my) discipline; but the less likely it is that his readers will trust the service.
  - The problem is that a concentration on conspirators can blind one to the possibly greater importance of other factors (why is a group so easily ‘subverted’?).
  - Counter-terrorism seems to have made MI5 broadly acceptable again, rather as World War Two briefly did, with everyone now (as then) acknowledging the legitimacy and importance of its targeting, as they had not always done in the case of ‘subversives’ and peacetime spies.
  - I’d have liked more on this: some kind of systematic analysis of the class structure, schooling, previous employment and so on of MI5’s establishment at various times
  - In particular we might want to watch how it interprets the change in its brief in the late 1980s, which extended its duties to the safeguarding of ‘the economic well-being of the United Kingdom’, in case it takes that as code for simply defending capitalism as we know it.
Charlie's Diary: Imbeciles about 22 hours ago
Dissident Voice : Russia-India-China: The Bush Curse about 23 hours ago
- “It is intolerable [for Washington] to see Asians considering their relations among each other in a form that excludes the US.”
Playing politics with women's lives | SocialistWorker.org about 24 hours ago
- Courageous? Sure, if you define "courage" as selling out a woman's right to choose. Very, very courageous.
- If the amendment makes it into the final version of health care legislation, insurers will drop abortion from the procedures they cover in order to be eligible for the exchange--making abortions even less accessible to the women who need them.
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- - while the Democrats say their party stands for preserving a woman's right to choose, their actions show how easily they bargain that right away.
  - So it was a shock, but only for a minute, when I read an e-mail from NARAL on November 9, decrying the threat posed by the Stupak Amendment, yet offering no form of response other than to click on a button and help raise money. For what? To plead with the Democratic politicians who pro-choice organizations have already handed over millions of dollars?
How Limousine Liberals, Oligarch Farmers and Even Sean Hannity Are Hijacking Our Water Supply - By Yasha Levine - The eXiled on 2009-11-20
- Where will the state get that water? Well, it could take it away from small farmers, rural communities and anyone else who is poor and politically unconnected.
- Just look at these profit margins: these days, Central Valley farmers buy water from California’s Department of Water Resources for a heavily-subsidized $100 to $500 per acre-foot, while city slickers in San Francisco pay around $8,500 for the same water.

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