Posadas...with a vengence

My current roommate being interviewed about his announcement that his publishing house is moving toward free online access to texts...

Quoted: Forum : Les nouvelles voies de l'édition. Mardi 25 septembre 2007 de 16h00 à 17h30, avec Grégoire Chamayou, Editeur, responsable de Zones (groupe La Découverte)

listening to this now. he makes a few decent brief points about prospects for the 2008 elections, the notion of the collective act, the emergence of new evental sites, and so on...the second part of the interview was aired on may 12.

edit: oh damn...i just read this from the transcript while the audio's downloading:

Quoted: Today’s legacy of that ’68 is alive. And, you know, they have in California, and now it’s spreading to Europe, a terrible thing called masturbation. People gather, you masturbate publicly, you’re not allowed to touch the other, and, of course, each one has to pay some money, which goes to politically correct causes and so on. And the idea, it’s like self-expression: you are alone, but in a crowd. This kind of—this is what I don’t like.

Quoted: Slavoj Žižek, the renowned philosopher, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist, joins us in our firehouse studio for a wide-ranging discussion. Žižek has been called "the Elvis of cultural theory" and is widely considered to be one of Europe's leading intellectuals. He has written more than fifty books and speaks to sold-out audiences around the world. [includes rush transcript]

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design savvy kindergarten teachers need this. now.

If the stars align correctly, Jesse Ventura will run an independent ticket in 2012 and schwarzenegger will run as a republican. cage fight, anyone?

Quoted: Amazon.com: Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!: Jesse Ventura,Dick Russell: Books

looking for bike repair books on amazon, i came across this and laughed my ass off at the reviews, which seem to be written by eight year olds....

Quoted: Amazon.com: Bicycle Mystery (Boxcar Children): Gertrude Chandler Warner,David Cunningham: Books

fucking awesome contemporary continental e-text resource....

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I just finished reading the Watchmen. If you liked Heroes in any way whatsoever or ever liked comic books or like the idea of a comic book that reads with the nuance of Proust--read the Watchmen....now in hardcover

just fucking read it!