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alt="spaceplace" width="500" height="364" /></p> <p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="500" height="350" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oNNzBh4LS8I&feature" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oNNzBh4LS8I&feature"></embed></object></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>Here’s a clip from Sun-Ra’s 1972 film <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Is_The_Place" target="_blank"><strong>Space is the Place</strong></a>. The plot of the film is as follows: After becoming lost in space through his musical astro-travels, Sun-Ra discovers a new planet, which he deems fit for African-American colonization. He then returns to a strip-club in Chicago, where he used to play piano, in order to confront “The Overseer”, an archetypal pimp-type character. The two agree to play a hand of cards in order to decide the fate of “The Black Race” for all eternity. Then a bunch of nonsensical hijinx occur featuring strippers, hookers, evil FBI agents, impotent NASA engineers and so forth. In the end, Earth is destroyed just as Sun-Ra and his chosen disciples speed off into outer-space.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>Unsurprisingly, the film is a mess, but a good sort of mess. It appropriates the premise of Bergman’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Seal" target="_blank"><strong>The Seventh Seal</strong></a>, tosses it in a bubbling pot full of blaxploitation clichés and then douses it with a thick swath of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrofuturism" target="_blank"><strong>afrofuturistic</strong></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism" target="_blank"><strong>heliocentricism</strong></a>. Or maybe it’s afrocentric heliofuturism. Either way, check it out.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><strong>BONUS</strong>: Sun-Ra’s version of <em>Pink Elephants</em></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em><br /> <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="500" height="350" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bfLpnXQpjvw" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bfLpnXQpjvw"></embed></object><em> </em></p> <p></span></div> <div class="sociable"> <div class="sociable_tagline"> <strong>Share:</strong> </div> <ul> <li class="sociablefirst"><a rel="nofollow" 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That’s right, a mainstream media company – you know, the ones that should admit the game’s up because they are so irrelevant and don’t know what they are doing in this new media landscape – has grown its audience by 40% in a year. More Americans are now reading the Guardian than read the Los Angeles Times. This readership has found us, rather than the other way round. Our total marketing spend in America in the past 10 years has been $34,000.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/359634207" class="tumblr_link">01/29/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Wired | Danger Room</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/01/pentagon-master-plan-super-size-my-drone-fleet/"><b>Super-Size My Drone Fleet</b></a>: <i>The U.S. military already has plans in the works to grow its fleet of Predators and Reapers, the long-loitering, armed surveillance drones that have become a defining feature of the air war over Central Asia and the Middle East. Now, according to a draft version of the Pentagon’s new master strategy plan, the military wants to dramatically up the number of “orbits,” or air patrols, of the unmanned aircraft.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/359602909" class="tumblr_link">01/29/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>The Baffler</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thebaffler.com/viewArticle/121/0/1/">Serfing the Net</a>: <i>And so we have our conversation about the enormous cultural restructuring that is going on, but we are having it in a senseless vocabulary where “content” takes the place of “art” and “information” substitutes for “culture,” “knowledge,” “literature,” “music,” “cinema” and “meaning.” All the mysteries of the creative process are flattened: the fickle nature of the muse, the idiosyncrasies of scholarship, and the tenacity required to compose a novel. All are reduced to nothing by analogies derived from the logic of computer code, data processing and high-tech business models. </i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/356773977" class="tumblr_link">01/27/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>The Nation</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100201/hayes/single"><b>System Failure</b></a>: <i>There’s a word for a governing philosophy that fuses the power of government and large corporations as a means of providing services and keeping the wheels of industry greased, and it’s a word that has begun to pop up among critics of everything from the TARP bailout to healthcare to cap and trade: corporatism. Since corporatism often merges the worst parts of Big Government and Big Business, it’s an ideal target for both the left and right. The ultimate corporatist moment, the bailout, was initially voted down in the House by an odd-bedfellows coalition of Progressive Caucus members and right-wingers.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/351513720" class="tumblr_link">01/24/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>David Harvey</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://davidharvey.org/2009/12/organizing-for-the-anti-capitalist-transition/"><b>Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition</b></a>: <i>Communists are all those who work incessantly to produce a different future to that which capitalism portends. This is an interesting definition. While traditional institutionalized communism is as good as dead and buried, there are by this definition millions of <i>de facto</i> communists active among us, willing to act upon their understandings, ready to creatively pursue anti-capitalist imperatives. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Enigma-Capital-David-Harvey/dp/1846683084/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260895752&sr=8-1"><i></i></a>If, as the alternative globalization movement of the late 1990s declared, ‘another world is possible’ then why not also say ‘another communism is possible’? The current circumstances of capitalist development demand something of this sort, if fundamental change is to be achieved.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/344845167" class="tumblr_link">01/20/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>BLDG BLOG</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/they-will-build-clouds-for-us.html"><b>They Will Build Clouds For Us</b></a>: <i>A cloud of metal dust released by U.S. military airplanes in the skies 100 miles west of Los Angeles caused a temporary blackout in the city and “interfer[ed] with radar at airports in southern California” when it began to blow back toward land. What exactly was the purpose of this inadvertently weaponized offshore atmospheric event? “The Navy says it spread several thousand pounds of the particles of chaff in an operation 100 to 300 miles offshore designed to test its ability to jam radar,” the New York Times reported. </i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/344575842" class="tumblr_link">01/20/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>The Guardian | Charlie Brooker</h3><p><p><b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/18/augmented-reality-on-its-way">Batten down the hatches. Augmented reality is on its way</a>: </b><i>Years ago, I had an idea for a futuristic pair of goggles that visually transformed homeless people into lovable animated cartoon characters. Instead of being confronted by the conscience-pricking sight of an abandoned heroin addict shivering themselves to sleep in a shop doorway, the rich city-dweller wearing the goggles would see Daffy Duck snoozing dreamily in a hammock. London would be transformed into something out of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/342849486" class="tumblr_link">01/19/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>New Statesman | Slavoj Zizek</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/08/haiti-aristide-lavalas"><b>Democracy versus the people:</b></a> <i>Denounced by Talleyrand as “a horrible spectacle for all white nations”, the “mere existence of an independent Haiti” was itself an intolerable threat to the slave-owning status quo. Haiti thus had to be made an exemplary case of economic failure, to dissuade other countries from taking the same path. The price - the literal price - for the “premature” independence was truly extortionate: after two decades of embargo, France, the old colonial master, established trade and diplomatic relations only in 1825, after forcing the Haitian government to pay 150 million francs as “compensation” for the loss of its slaves. <br/></i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/341834674" class="tumblr_link">01/18/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Financial Times</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/628a8500-ff1c-11de-a677-00144feab49a.html"><b>Moscow’s Stray Dogs</b></a>: <i>The stray dogs of Moscow are mentioned for the first time in the reports of the journalist and writer Vladimir Gilyarovsky in the latter half of the 19th century. But Poyarkov says they have been there as long as the city itself. They remain different from wolves, in particular because they exhibit pronounced “polymorphism” – a range of behavioural traits shaped in part by the “ecological niche” they occupy. And it is this ability to adapt that explains why the population density of strays is so much greater than that of wolves. “With several niches there are more resources and more opportunities.”</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/339147224" class="tumblr_link">01/17/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>BBC | Adam Curtis</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2010/01/yemen_the_return_of_old_ghosts.html"><b>Yemen - The Return of Old Ghosts</b></a>: <i>What I find so fascinating about the reporting of the War on Terror is the way almost all of it ignores history - as if it is a conflict happening outside time. The Yemen is a case in point. In the wake of the underpants bomber we have been deluged by a wave of terror journalism about this dark mediaeval country that harbours incomprehensible fanatics who want to destroy the west. None of it has explained that only forty years ago the British government fought a vicious secret war in the Yemen against republican revolutionaries who used terror, including bombing airliners.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/337692386" class="tumblr_link">01/16/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Maisonneuve</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://maisonneuve.org/pressroom/article/2010/jan/14/nakba-olives/"><b>A Nakba of Olives: </b></a><i>There is supposed to be a demonstration against the Wall today, but earlier this week, the IDF raided Jayyous. Soldiers entered the village at night, seized about a hundred young men and penned them in the school gymnasium. The troops also occupied several village houses and spray-painted a Star of David over a pro-freedom mural on a school wall. The IDF took about a dozen men with them when they left, and the men are still in custody somewhere in Israel. I wonder if the night action by the IDF will intimidate the young men out of their weekly protest and I ask Mohammed if anything is going to happen today. He says he doesn’t know. He says that the “street will decide.” I don’t believe him. His cell-phone has been ringing all morning. If anyone knows, it is Mohammed.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/334213165" class="tumblr_link">01/14/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Der Spiegel</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,670600,00.html"><b>Who Has the Right to Shape the City?</b></a> <i>Hamburg has been trying to woo the much-coveted “creative class” for years in a bid to secure its future. Now the city has become the front line in a bitter conflict over gentrification, with artists squatting buildings in protest against investment plans and members of the far-left scene attacking private property — and even police.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/325479800" class="tumblr_link">01/09/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Guernica</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.guernicamag.com/spotlight/1476/bubble_city/"><b>Sin City:</b></a> <i>The first time I saw the Burj, in 2006, was in the days following our pre-dawn meeting with Marilyn. It was still in the early stages of construction and was hard to make out exactly what was what in the dark. Excavation had commenced more than two years before, and now the first few levels of steel framing had begun to emerge from ground level. My friend, Darren, pointed it out to me from where we stood on the balcony of an old, soot-covered high rise, just opposite the site, off Sheikh Zayed Road—an anomaly on the luxurious thoroughfare, flanked by the Fairmont hotel and the two Emirates towers. It was nighttime, and we could see a constellation of lighted cranes and the steel frames of the construction sites in nearby Business Bay—a sixty-four-million-square-foot development that planners say will comprise 240 towers and house 191,000 people, originally slated for completion by 2015.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/325077511" class="tumblr_link">01/09/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>The Infrastructuralist</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.infrastructurist.com/2010/01/07/could-abandoned-strip-malls-be-a-boon-for-solar-energy/"><b>Could Abandoned Strip Malls Be a Boon for Solar Energy?</b></a> <i>The roof space of a strip mall or supermarket is often empty black space. Converting that space to a power plant maximizes its use, generating revenue from otherwise worthless space. And panels can shade a heat-retaining black roof, reducing the air conditioning load and increasing net energy efficiency.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/322829207" class="tumblr_link">01/07/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>k-punk</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/011437.html"><b>“They killed their mother”: <i>Avatar</i> as ideological symptom</b></a>: <i>What we have in Avatar is another instance of corporate anti-capitalism such as I discussed in </i><i>Capitalist Realism in relation to </i><i>Wall-E. Cameron has always been a proponent of Hollywood anti-capitalism: stupid corporate interests were the villains in </i><i>Aliens and </i><i>Terminator 2 as they are in </i><i>Avatar. </i><i>Avatar is Le Guin-lite, a degraded version of the scenario that Le Guin developed in novels such as </i><i>The Word For World Is Forest, </i><i>The Dispossessed and </i><i>City Of Illusions, but stripped of all Le Guin’s ambivalence and intelligence. What is foreclosed in the opposition between a predatory technologised capitalism and a primitive organicism, evidently, is the possibility of a modern, technologised anti-capitalism. It is in presenting this pseudo-opposition that </i><i>Avatar functions as an ideological symptom. </i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/320235489" class="tumblr_link">01/06/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Eye</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.eyemagazine.com/review.php?id=170&rid=888&set=947"><b>Studio Scrutiny</b></a>:<i> Web 2.0 has done strange things to graphic design. It has rapidly popularised the discipline but it has also radically altered the boundaries of who and what is a designer. Many believe that anyone with a cracked copy of CS4 can design, while others cringe at the very notion of graphic design in the hands of non-professionals. And as cliché-ridden, press-release dependent blogs continue to increase their market share, quality analysis is often lost amidst the hype-cycle.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/319532709" class="tumblr_link">01/06/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>New York Times</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/americas/04havana.html?hp"><b>A Black Market Finds a Home in the Web’s Back Alleys</b></a>: <i>The offerings on this online bazaar run the gamut, although it is impossible to tell which sellers are legitimate, which are scam artists and which might even be government agents setting a trap. A recent posting offered illegal satellite dishes, which the authorities occasionally seize from rooftops to prevent outlawed foreign broadcasts from finding their way into Cuban homes. Also for sale were English classes, old typewriters, sex toys, purebred dogs and tooth whitening chemicals. People with permission to travel were sought out to buy clothing, electronics and other goods to bring back in their luggage.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/315826545" class="tumblr_link">01/03/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Mute</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.metamute.org/en/questioning_capitalist_realism"><b>Questioning Capitalist Realism</b></a>: <i>But with the collapse of neoliberalism - and make no mistake about it, neoliberalism has collapsed, even though it continues to dominate political culture because of undead inertia - I expect to see capitalist realism under increasing pressure. A thirty year old reality system has just collapsed, and we’re in a kind of reality interregnum. It took a few years after the 1929 crash for new political forces to emerge, and just because nothing much has happened yet doesn’t mean it won’t ever happen. The terrain is strewn of ideological rubble, and it’s there to be fought over.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/314470419" class="tumblr_link">01/03/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>The National</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091231/REVIEW/701019830/1008/review"><b>Techno-utopian fail</b></a>: <i>Techno-utopianism is usually rooted in rigid and obsolete views about the relationship between authoritarianism and information. Most techno-utopians interpret the fact that authoritarian governments resort to censorship as a sign of their weakness. Hence, whenever authoritarian governments cede control over information, they are believed to become weaker. Thus, every time Chinese bloggers use proxy servers to access banned content, they are slowly eroding the Great Firewall of China. And where the firewalls fall, dictators soon follow. This view is fatally flawed, as it understates the sophistication and flexibility of modern authoritarian states and overstates the democratic aspirations of their citizens.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/310499200" class="tumblr_link">12/31/09</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>The Guardian</h3><p><p><b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/29/trouble-twitter-social-networking-banality">The trouble with Twitter:</a> </b>Thankfully, there are now the first stirrings of a backlash against the cult of social media. In his forthcoming book, <a title="You Are Not A Gadget" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/You-are-Not-Gadget-Manifesto/dp/1846143411">You Are Not a Gadget</a>, the American computer scientist and pioneer of virtual reality <a title="Jaron Lanier" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2001/dec/29/games.academicexperts">Jaron Lanier</a> will defend authorship and individual creativity against the deafening banality of the online crowd. For some time now, the Belarussian blogger <a title="Evgeny Morozov" href="http://evgenymorozov.com/blog/">Evgeny Morozov</a> has been hammering away at the myth that social media is necessarily a good thing for political activism.</p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/310415821" class="tumblr_link">12/31/09</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Generation Bubble</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://generationbubble.com/2009/12/21/me-tv-let-a-thousand-broadcasters-bloom/"><b>Let a Thousand Broadcasters Bloom</b></a>: <i>Online media forms do nothing to change the ideology built into the older mass media. Instead, they extend that ideology and form of the mass media into personal relations, into more intimate spheres, so that the private is turned inside out and made vulnerable to the consumerist ideology. They turn our everyday lives into the “code” so that our practices are always signifying something in that one dimension, in that language of social practices and objects that denotes status hierarchies. Once personal relations stood in opposition to the “generality of media messages,” and the opposition helped define the private/public dichotomy. Now, Web 2.0 applications and the like have allowed media to assimilate personal relations.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/310332380" class="tumblr_link">12/31/09</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Marginal Utility</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/avatar-and-invisible-republic/"><b>Avatar and the Invisible Republic</b></a>: <i>We generally want someone else to be living by that pure code of acceptance of “authentic identity”; we are always tempted to try to reserve for ourselves the power to shape our own destiny and be anything we want. No one seems to volunteer to become the folk if the condition of that is disappearing into holistic anonymity. Instead we impose our notion of authenticity on others, and let their being trapped in it serve to limn the terms of our own private freedom.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/310286035" class="tumblr_link">12/31/09</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>The Wall Street Journal</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704254604574614230731506644.html"><b> </b></a><a target="_blank" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704254604574614230731506644.html"><b>Save Mexico, Legalize Marijuana</b></a>: <i>In many ways, illegal drugs are the most successful Mexican multinational enterprise, employing some 450,000 Mexicans and generating about $20 billion in sales, second only behind the country’s oil industry and automotive industry exports. This year, Forbes magazine put Mexican drug lord Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman as No. 401 on the world’s list of billionaires.</i></p> <p><i><br/></i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/308532900" class="tumblr_link">12/30/09</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>A Photo Student</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.aphotostudent.com/2009/12/15/the-future-of-photography-popular-photography-1944/"><b>The Future of Photography (Popular Photography 1944)</b></a>: <i>I feel that the camera finds its main importance as a recording and communicating mechanism, and I should like to see it develop until it takes its place with the pencil and the typewriter as an instrument of our everyday language. Photography should be taught in the schools along with penmanship as part of postwar education’s expansion.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/308499893" class="tumblr_link">12/30/09</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Mute</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.metamute.org/en/content/invisible_politics_an_introduction_to_contemporary_communisation"><b>Invisible Politics - An Introduction to Contemporary Communisation</b></a>: <i>What is communisation? The term immediately evokes various social experiments and revolutionary endeavours from the Paris Commune and utopian socialist communities in the 19th century through to various counter-cultural attempts to reconstitute social relations on a more communitarian basis such as the squatting scene in the 1970s and ’80s.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/304401345" class="tumblr_link">12/28/09</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Foreign Policy</h3><p><p><b><a target="_blank" href="http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/12/27/whether_its_aq_or_not_nobody_in_arab_media_cares">Whether it’s AQ or not, nobody in Arab media cares</a>: </b><i>The Arab media’s indifference to the story speaks to a vitally important trend. Al-Qaeda’s attempted acts of terrorism simply no longer carry the kind of persuasive political force with mass Arab or Muslim publics which they may have commanded in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Even as the microscopically small radicalized and mobilized base continues to plot and even to thrive in its isolated pockets, it has largely lost its ability to break out into mainstream public appeal. </i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/304396485" class="tumblr_link">12/28/09</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>The Atlantic | Andrew Sullivan</h3><p><p><b><a target="_blank" href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/if-youre-just-now-tuning-in.html">If You’re Just Now Tuning In</a>: </b><i>Today has been a momentous one in Iran, as expected. </i>This is not an unplanned, mindless resistance to dictatorship - <i>This is an organized, grass-root uprising, with leaders and centers of command. Just considering the networks of information and organization, like the design, production and dissemination of fliers and notices, shows that this is not a random movement. I have heard this statement so many times, not just since the June election, but long before and these are primarily the words of those interested in re-establishing the pre-1979 leadership structure, i.e. monarchists, mojahedeen, toodeh, chapi, etc. </i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/304123260" class="tumblr_link">12/28/09</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Experimental Jetset</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.experimentaljetset.nl/archive/lostformats.html"><b>Lost Formats Preservation Society</b></a>: <i>We’re really interested in this continuous interaction between form and content: Form determining content determining form determining content etc. It’s a continues flow, and in the ideal situation, you can’t really distinguish between form and content; they constantly change place.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/302374255" class="tumblr_link">12/26/09</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Slate</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2236703/"><b>China is a Communist country, but I have yet to meet an actual Communist: </b></a><i>On several occasions during my 10 days in China, I’ve been told that there are 70 million members of the Chinese Communist Party. And yet it’s nearly impossible to find an orthodox Marxist in Beijing.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/302363255" class="tumblr_link">12/26/09</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Wired | Underwire</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/12/decade-movies/"><b>Mind-Game Movies Mark ’00s Cinema of Paranoia</b></a>:<i> The decade defined first and foremost by 9/11 yielded a bitter, brilliant Cinema of Paranoia. A new breed of brooding, believable superheroes inhabited worlds ripped from the pages of comic books — worlds that seemed more believable on the strength of exponential advances in increasingly photorealistic CGI.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/302339868" class="tumblr_link">12/26/09</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>New York Times</h3><p><p><b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/world/middleeast/27iran.html?_r=1&hp">Tehran Protesters Defy Ban and Clash With Police</a>: </b><i>A <a title="Video on YouTube" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmys8KK2k8Q&feature=youtube_gdata">video</a> posted on an opposition Web site showed protesters on a public bus on Saturday chanting, “This is the month of blood, Yazid will fall.” The chant was a reference to the villain in Shiite Islam, Yazid, the caliph who killed Imam Hussein in a battle in the year 680. Some protesters have been referring to the Iranian authorities as Yazid.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/302302136" class="tumblr_link">12/26/09</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Spiked</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7868/"><b>Ten years of fear:</b></a> <i>What the various science-fiction scenarios, pandemic fears and conspiracy theories over the past 10 years have had in common is that they have all been informed by, crystallised and propelled a profound sense of vulnerability. We are increasingly told that we are powerless in the face of invisible forces over which we have little control. 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