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: Cuando hillbillies y rednecks se aliaron con los Panteras Negras : Parecían hillbillies y rednecks revolucionarios, soñaron con una comunidad utópica llamada Hank Williams Village y lograron lo que parecía imposible: hacer ondear la bandera sureña junto al puño negro. «Hubo un tiempo en que creí que solo los negros estaban colonizados», afirmó Huey P. Newton en 1969, ya investido como líder de los Panteras Negras. Se refería a la idea que había planeado desde la creación del Partido unos años antes, y que afirmaba que los negros debían luchar exclusivamente junto a su gente. Quizás pesó mucho la política de exterminio parapolicial del gobierno, que había puesto precio a sus cabezas, dinamitaba sus sedes y tiroteaba a esta su misma gente. Parecía una guerra abierta, y quizás lo fuese. Iban armados, pero sabían que un combate cara a cara supondría una guerra incierta y perdida. En 1969, en medio de un clima de levantamiento armado, se dio un paso adelante en la unión con otra...

Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Zizek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes (The Pervert's Guide to Cinema) for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Zizek literally goes inside some truly epochal movies to explore and expose how they reinforce prevailing ideologies. As the ideology that undergirds our cinematic fantasies is revealed, striking associations emerge: What hidden Catholic teachings lurk at the heart of The Sound of Music? What are the fascist political dimensions of Jaws? Taxi Driver, Zabriskie Point, The Searchers, The Dark Knight, John Carpenter's They Live (one of the forgotten masterpieces of the Hollywood Left), Titanic, Kinder Eggs, verité news footage, Beethoven's Ode to Joy and propaganda epics from Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia all inform Zizek's stimulating, provocative and often hilarious psychoanalytic-cinematic rant. ...

CINEMA IS THE ULTIMATE PERVERT ART. IT DOESN'T GIVE YOU WHAT TO DESIRE - IT TELLS YOU HOW TO DESIRE - SLAVOJ ZIZEK THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA  takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves.  THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA offers an introduction into some of Zizek's most exciting ideas on fantasy, reality, sexuality, subjectivity, desire, materiality and cinematic form. Whether he is untangling the famously baffling films of David Lynch, or overturning everything you thought you knew about Hitchcock, Zizek illuminates the screen with his passion, intellect, and unfailing sense of humour. THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA applies Zizek's ideas to the c...

As Chief Economist at a major international consulting firm, John Perkins advised the World Bank, United Nations, IMF, U.S. Treasury Department, Fortune 500 corporations, and countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He worked directly with heads of state and CEOs of major companies. His books on economics and geo-politics have sold more than 1 million copies, spent many months on the  New York Times  and other bestseller lists, and are published in over 30 languages. John’s  Confessions of an Economic Hit Man  (70 weeks on the  New York Times  bestseller list) is a startling exposé of international corruption. His  The Secret History of the American Empire , also a  New York Times bestseller, details the clandestine operations that created the world’s first truly global empire. His Hoodwinked  is a blueprint for a new form of global economics. The solutions are not “return to normal” ones. Instead, John challenges...

When artist Mica Angela Hendricks got a new sketch book a while back, her 4-year-old daughter was insistent upon being able to try it out herself. Hendricks tried to say no, but her daughter used a phrase on her mom that she must have heard a few times herself… If you can’t share, we might have to take it away… Well, that did the trick and Hendricks her little girl finish one of the characters she’d started in the new sketchbook. This turned out to be an accidental stroke of genius. Hendricks now regularly draws faces for her daughter to finish. After the younger artist completes her confident pen strokes, the older then fills them in with color and and their collaborative work is done. Read more about this project or buy some of the mother-daughter duo’s prints .

Paxahau Event Productions and Management Company Overview The Paxahau project was conceived and inspired from the underground electronic music scene in Detroit and a constant curiosity into the heightened awareness triggered through sound. Description Paxahau has grown into globally recognized events, one of the internets largest electronic music resources and friendships reaching far across the world. This adventure has been fueled by you, the audience, the global electronic network. We will continue to work hard in our attempts to share the soundtrack of this adventure with our events, our archives, our labels and our broadcast programming. Thank you for helping the Paxahau project come this far, and we look forward to a long future together.

Thorium is readily available and can be turned into energy without generating transuranic wastes. Thorium’s capacity as nuclear fuel was discovered during WW II, but ignored because it was unsuitable for making bombs. A liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) is the optimal approach for harvesting energy from Thorium, and has the potential to solve today’s energy/climate crisis. LFTR is a type of Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (Th-MSR). This video summarizes over 6 hours worth of thorium talks given by Kirk Sorensen and other thorium technologists. Thorium is a naturally-occurring mineral that holds large amounts of releasable nuclear energy, similar to uranium. This nuclear energy can be released in a special nuclear reactor designed to use thorium. Thorium is special because it is easier to extract this energy completely than uranium due to some of the chemical and nuclear properties of thorium.

Stunning works of hybrid taxidermy by Enrique Gomez De Molina … ( via )

Originally published in 2008 by Taschen, SOUL i-D is a compilation of several earlier projects that had been put together over the previous ten years. The best of i-D's special projects including contributions from artists and designers such as David LaChapelle, John Galliano, Sam Taylor-Wood, Juergen Teller, and Terry Richardson Soul i-D is a 600-page visual anthology of ideas and images featuring personal insights and contributions from some of the most creative names in contemporary fashion, music, art, and design. Looking at issues that affect all of our lives, from family values to global responsibility and personal lessons learned to inspirational survival stories, all of the best special projects are here and with the mix of quirky irreverence that has been part of the i-D vocabulary since its launch by Terry Jones in 1980.    Contributors include: Ron Arad, Giorgio Armani, Christopher Bailey, David Bailey, Bono, Neville Brody, Hussei...

Gordon Spencer of WBAI in New York presents a program about Louis Hardin, more popularly known as Moondog . From the 1940s up until 1974 Moondog made his living as a street musician and poet in New York City and was typically found near the jazz clubs on 52nd Street. Blind since an accident when he was 16 years old, Moondog was always recognizable in his Viking helmet playing a variety of instruments, some of his own design. In this program Moondog talks about his interests, his influences and his experiences. Recorded 1971-07-03. (there are two parts, click next for the second part)   Shout to J.Neversleeps for the hat tip!