Tidbits
Instead of perplexing you with my theory on why reading about Bush family scandals gives me the same queasy thrill as reading about Hitler, I offer instead:
– The Guardian’s always entertaining Notes & Queries rubric – wherein you will learn, among other things, why lion tamers give orders in German, how to become a member of the UN security council and the plural of “overbearing pedant.”
– You think you’ve experienced deadline stress? Ha! Read this and weep (then go have a nap).
– A history of media hoaxes.
– Umberto Eco on the signs of ur-Facism to watch for.
And…
I’m just saying that something happened twenty or twenty five years ago, with the collapse of socialism, and, at the same time, the Western social democratic worker state losing its power of sustaining political imagination. What disappeared at that point was the belief that humanity, as a collective subject, can actively intervene and somehow steer social development. In the last thirty years, we are again accepting the notion of history as fate…
– Slovenia’s (and everyone’s) favourite Lacanian-Marxist, Slovoj Zizek.
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