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You're confusing two separate things here. It's not critics of Badiou in general who are "hysterical, malicious, unworthy of engagement." It's you, specifically.

No shit. Who one earth is suggesting otherwise?

I think some reclaim the streets type people have put on events with low-powered transmitters and lots of people with portable radios, although I can't remember any details. There's also the leplacard headphone festival, which sounds much more interesting than this flash club bollocks (although...

Possibly even worse than Bono's article itself (though you'ld think the fucker's rich enough he could afford a competent ghostwriter), are his defenders in the comments thread. They're all some variant of this one, from some arse called Telemachiad: "Go on guys, joke about Bono being a rich...

You could try Write To Them which lets you fax your MP, councillors, etc, for free.

I'm sure I'm not alone among people on Dissensus in finding the idea that the captains of industry are the "prime movers" just unbearably silly. Hell, I wish they would go on strike. Actually, it would be interesting to compare Atlas Shrugged with the recent "strike" of company owners in...

Have you seen "The Passion of Ayn Rand"? It's a hillariously awful TV movie with Rand and her coterie sitting about making supposedly deep pronouncements, like Rand's response to someone suggesting Objectivism is a cult: "how can you have a cult of individuality?"

There's a torrent of it up at UKNova, although they only allow a limited number of people to be signed up, so you may or may not be able to download it easily from there.

Sausage fest Not super recent, probably (we're isolated out here in California), but I kind of like the trend for incredibly childish filth. Various lines in Bruza/Bearman's "Bangers," and there's a track that Discarda guests on (a Narstie track, maybe?) which I'm thinking may be the first time...

Who gives a fuck? Obviously, capitalism/imperialism are capable of killing a couple of thousand people to promote their interests ('capable' in both the sense of having the requisite lack of morality and having the technical means). What no-one's yet explained to me is why anyone should be...

The Morning Star is the best newspaper. Communism and a sports page.

And it's interesting how a number of right-wingers have responded to a perceived lack of outrage against the Muslim "attack on free speech." The problem, according to the right, is that the Western left are immoral and decadent for not opposing those who call them immoral and decadent. I, for...

Here's one possibility. In particular:

Surprised no-one's mentioned Shampoo (who the new GA album sounds a lot like in places). Though I suppose this is a thread on the worst pop raps, rather than the really great ones, and Shampoo obviously fall into the latter category.

One possibility, which I think is worth looking at, is that the wealth that Europe extracted from the New World is one of the things which allowed the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Marx talks about this a little in the Grundrisse, particulalry how the increased availability of gold...

Capital is not to be questioned Well, that's certainly a fine example of capitalist inevitabilism. Not only, "capitalism exists, therefore everything that happens is a result of capitalism," the article gives us the full blown article with the next step to, "therefore you must be thankful to...

No you aren't; it's really fucking dumb. Scroll down the right-hand column, and it's kind of racist, too. And, what a surprise: a right-wing islamaphobic site that combines anti-anti-Zionism with the propogation of what are traditionally anti-semitic ideas - specifically "communism is a...

I agree that that's the substance (such as it is) of his position. But that increasingly just serves as something on which to hang his fucking awful writing. The smirking coyness (e.g. the recent post on Afghanistan entitled "Women representatives in... certain countries"), the prissy word...

Speaking of which, I've just discovered this, from The Idea of Prose

Not exactly related to any of the (very interesting) discussions people have been having here, but you might be interested in this discussion of the economics of the porn industry. Also, k-punk's recent discussion of glamor photography in his post on Kate Moss seems relevant. The 'duped...