The Friday Poem: “Monica”, by Hera Lindsay Bird
And to be able to maintain a friendship
Through the various complications of heterosexual monogamy
Is enormously difficult
Especially when you take into consideration
What cunts they all were
“Monica”, by Hera Lindsay Bird
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
A nightmare of the future
Saturday, August 6, 2016
[Almost a year since i’ve used this. Facebook is too comfortable.]
Priced out of rental market, Simon Fraser students sleeping on campus – The Globe and Mail
“There is a lot more going on, with people who just want to keep their kids in school. We’ve all lowered our expectations. I don’t know anybody who wants a house. These parents aren’t bad parents. There’s just no end in sight, and it pisses me off when people say this is a first-world problem.”
postcapitalism
Monday, August 24, 2015
The end of capitalism has begun | Books | The Guardian
New forms of ownership, new forms of lending, new legal contracts: a whole business subculture has emerged over the past 10 years, which the media has dubbed the “sharing economy”. Buzzwords such as the “commons” and “peer-production” are thrown around, but few have bothered to ask what this development means for capitalism itself.
I believe it offers an escape route – but only if these micro-level projects are nurtured, promoted and protected by a fundamental change in what governments do. And this must be driven by a change in our thinking – about technology, ownership and work. So that, when we create the elements of the new system, we can say to ourselves, and to others: “This is no longer simply my survival mechanism, my bolt hole from the neoliberal world; this is a new way of living in the process of formation.”
Social science as sin
Monday, August 10, 2015
The ideological roots of Stephen Harper’s vendetta against sociology
So what does Harper have against sociology? First, Harper is clearly trumpeting a standard component of neo-liberal ideology: that there are no social phenomena, only individual incidents.
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But there’s yet another reason this ideology is so hostile toward the kind of sociological analysis done by Statistics Canada, public inquiries and the like. And that has to do with the type of injustices we can even conceive of, or consider tackling, as a society.
Happiness is not so simple
Friday, August 7, 2015
“Positive Attitude” Bullshit: On the dangers of “radical self-love”
Radical self-love gurus do not tend to promote or even really engage in discussions on privilege or the disadvantages people are born into; that shit would undermine the cause of “changing yourself, not the system.”
The third Red Noise album
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
mostly done on the night of February 28, 2015.
https://soundcloud.com/red_noise/sets/apropos-of-nothing
Austerity in the UK, featuring somewhere i’ve been
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Is saving Newcastle a mission impossible?
The bins were overflowing. A few passersby suggested that newly arrived Roma people from Slovakia were to blame; others said that was unfair, and pointed out that the city council had lately halved its bin collections, and reduced street cleaning.
Therefore, life is unfair
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Believing that life is fair might make you a terrible person
Confronted with an atrocity they otherwise can’t explain, people become slightly more likely, on average, to believe that the victims must have brought it on themselves.
