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class="comments"><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/10/2133/#comments" title="Comment on 48hrs in Antwerp">1</a></span> </p> </div> <h2><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/10/2133/" title="48hrs in Antwerp">48hrs in Antwerp</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2132" title="breakfast" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/breakfast.jpg" alt="breakfast" width="500" height="608" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2136" title="inte1" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/inte1.png" alt="inte1" width="500" height="338" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2138" title="int4" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/int4-500x373.png" alt="int4" width="500" height="373" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2143" title="petrol" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/petrol.png" alt="petrol" width="500" height="316" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2137" title="int3" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/int3.png" alt="int3" width="500" height="304" /></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>This past weekend I gave a presentation (alongside <a href="http://www.adbusters.org/" target="_blank">Will Brown</a> and <a href="http://www.highculturelowclass.com/" target="_blank">Easton West</a>) at <a href="http://www.integrated2009.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Integrated 2009</strong></a>, a biannual design conference that took place at <a href="http://www.desingel.be/" target="_blank">deSingel Antwerpen</a>. Integrated boasted some truly prolific personalities, including the likes of <a href="http://www.sagmeister.com" target="_blank">Stefan Sagmeister</a>, <a href="http://www.stormthorgerson.com/" target="_blank">Storm Thorgerson</a>,<a href="http://www.vanillusaft.com/" target="_blank"> Siggi Eggertsson</a>, <a href="http://www.eyemagazine.com/home.php" target="_blank">John L. Walters</a>, <a href="http://www.annelysdevet.nl/" target="_blank">Annelys de Vet</a>, and many more.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>My flight from Vancouver to Brussels got stretched out to 14 hours due to delays and Lufthansa’s seating didn’t allow for anything I would call “sleep”, so I was a wee bit haggered upon arrival. The following day, I was able to pop in and catch a few bits from different presenters, but due to the hectic nature of my schedule was only able to watch Erik Kessels’ presentation in its entirety. Kessels, co-founder of the Amsterdam-based agency <a href="http://www.kesselskramer.com/" target="_blank"><strong>KesselsKramer</strong></a>, was hilarious as always, check out their work for the <a href="http://www.hans-brinker.com/" target="_blank">The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel</a> if you’re not familiar.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>After the conference concluded there was an after-party at <a href="http://www.petrolclub.be/" target="_blank">Petrol</a>, a club located in the docklands on the outskirts of Antwerp. A mile’s walk from the closest tram station, Petrol seems like a sick joke at first glance, until you find the entrance, and then it’s all gravy. We partied until 5am, then had some chicken and waffles on the way back to the hotel, at which point I was at last able to catch up on some much-needed shut eye. Apart from drinking way too many vodka-tonics at the after-party, my only regret was not being able to attend more of the presentations. I’ll be looking forward to see what deSingel/<a href="http://www.sintlucasantwerpen.be/" target="_blank">Sint Lucas Antwerpen</a> have planned for 2010.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><em>-DH</em></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-1795" class="post"> <div class="postMeta"> <p class="container"> <span class="date">Sep 6, 2009</span> <span class="comments"><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/09/critical-contours/#respond" title="Comment on Critical Contours">0</a></span> </p> </div> <h2><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/09/critical-contours/" title="Critical Contours">Critical Contours</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1847" title="cover" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/cover.jpg" alt="cover" width="500" height="426" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-1830" title="Picture 48" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Picture-48-500x143.png" alt="Picture 48" width="500" height="143" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1849" title="tumblr_kpmn4sWqyf1qzpt5vo1_500" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/tumblr_kpmn4sWqyf1qzpt5vo1_500.png" alt="tumblr_kpmn4sWqyf1qzpt5vo1_500" width="500" height="336" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-1805" title="Picture 38" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Picture-38-500x160.png" alt="Picture 38" width="500" height="160" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-1803" title="Picture 33" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Picture-33-500x310.png" alt="Picture 33" width="500" height="310" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-1797" title="Picture 31" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Picture-31-500x178.png" alt="Picture 31" width="500" height="178" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-1798" title="Picture 28" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Picture-28-500x426.png" alt="Picture 28" width="500" height="426" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-1804" title="Picture 37" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Picture-37-500x190.png" alt="Picture 37" width="500" height="190" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-1823" title="Picture 34" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Picture-34-500x301.png" alt="Picture 34" width="500" height="301" /></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-1799" title="Picture 29" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Picture-29-500x147.png" alt="Picture 29" width="500" height="147" /></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>In his essay <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n06/zize01_.html" target="_blank"><strong>You May</strong></a>, in reference to the relative perceptions of where the Balkans begin and end, Slavoj Zizek states:</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><em>“We are dealing with an imaginary cartography, which projects onto the real landscape its own shadowy ideological antagonisms, in the same way that the conversion-symptoms of the hysterical subject in Freud project onto the physical body the map of another, imaginary anatomy.”</em></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>Nowhere is Zizek’s imaginary cartography more relevant than in the lives of those who live within the plastic borders of Serbia and Palestine, two of the most problematically defined nations on the planet. In these circumstances, where external pressure and internal conflict come together to create a seemingly impossible situation, individual perception is more relevant than political status. Inspired by a need for a more expressive understanding of the Palestinian and Serbian experiences, Dutch designer <a href="http://www.annelysdevet.nl/" target="_blank"><strong>Annelys de Vet</strong></a> invited artists, photographers and designers from both countries to re-map and personalize the contours of their respective landscapes.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p>The end product was <a href="http://www.010.nl/catalogue/book.php?id=648" target="_blank"><em><strong>A Subjective Atlas of Palestine</strong></em></a> and <a href="http://subjectiveatlas.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><strong><em>A Subjective Atlas of Serbia</em></strong></a> – two intimate, engaging, and often hilarious books that explore Serbia and Palestine from each contributor’s individual perspective.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><strong>PBLKS:</strong> Did you have any intentions when working on these two projects?</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><strong>de Vet</strong>: <em>To be honest; many intentions. The publications are ‘mapping’ a country, region or political entity in a personal way by the inhabitants themselves. They are invited to map their country in their own way; be it political, critical, culinary, romantic, negative or positive. Personal involvement is always a starting point, with the aim to produce human, unconventional and honest images. With the tools of graphic design and the stories of the contributors – alternative views are developed towards political entities that lack a nuanced representation in the media.</em></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <div><strong>PBLKS</strong>: What interests you about subjective cartography?</div> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><strong>de Vet: </strong><em>If you look at cartography critically one can say that all cartography is subjective, even though it seems to represent objectivity. By stating directly that the atlas is subjective, one can come closer to the context of everyday life in a certain region. A story is never complete and always more layered than at first glance, especially when dealing with the notion of identity. With the kind of mapping that is done in these subjective atlases you can experience the presence of the bigger story, without explanation. Personal maps also make it easier to identify yourself with the contributors. In the case of the Palestinian atlas that was of utmost importance. Palestinians are often shown in the western media as aggressors and in that role they are a ‘them’ and never a ‘we’. Looking at their subjective atlas, you can see the contributors are just like you and me but living in a terribly complicated society.</em></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <div><strong>PBLKS</strong>: Now that Google has made the whole earth instantly accessible for anyone with a laptop, what is the future of the atlas?</div> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><strong>de Vet: </strong><em>It’s a great future for the notion of the atlas (in any form, not printed per se). There is a general growing interest in graphs, charts and mapping data, also because there is so much more (and new) data available at the moment (partly thanks to Google). By visualizing data one can discover (or manipulate) new patterns that provide new information. Those graphs need to be ‘mapped’ again. Not by a search-engine, but by an editor – which brings us back to the atlas.</em></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <div><strong>PBLKS</strong>: Why do you think areas like Serbia and Palestine are so often misrepresented in western media?</div> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><strong>de Vet: </strong><em>You could write many books answering this question. And for both countries it’s an individual answer. But in general I would say that the press-agencies with the most capital (and the best educated staff) can influence the news the best and these agencies aren’t located in Palestine nor Serbia.</em></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <div><strong>PBLKS</strong>: Are there any interesting developments occurring right now in media at large that inspire/depress/provoke you?</div> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span></div> <p><strong>de Vet: </strong><em>Many many many. In Dutch politics for instance: I cannot understand how populism is so powerful in terms of placing irrelevant topics on the agenda, and in doing so killing the nuance and curiosity out of public debate. Mass media feeds this tendency at full speed, unable to avoid it by following the principles of journalism. We cannot stay objective anymore, but have to speak out and doubt at the same time.</em></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-1037" class="post"> <div class="postMeta"> <p class="container"> <span class="date">Jul 8, 2009</span> <span class="comments"><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/07/the-worlds-smallest-mania/#comments" title="Comment on The World’s Smallest Mania">4</a></span> </p> </div> <h2><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/07/the-worlds-smallest-mania/" title="The World’s Smallest Mania">The World’s Smallest Mania</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1038" title="nua0cdkdqp8qiswnswjf28boo1_400" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/nua0cdkdqp8qiswnswjf28boo1_400.jpg" alt="nua0cdkdqp8qiswnswjf28boo1_400" width="500" height="331" /></p> <p>As media journalists <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2222085/" target="_blank">rush to interpret</a> the recent wave of <a href="http://www.tumblr.com" target="_blank">Tumblr</a>-related hype, thousands of would-be internet auteurs are scrambling for a bankable gimmick in hopes of securing the mother of all meme payoffs: the <a href="http://gawker.com/5305024/exploiting-the-blog+to+book-bubble-a-guide" target="_blank">blog-to-book jackpot</a>. However, much like the livejournals and blogger sites of yesteryear, the average tumblelog is ultimately doomed to obscurity. Here’s a brief interview with the author of one that isn’t: <a href="http://kleinmania.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Kleinmania</a>.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1051" title="picture-1" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/picture-1.png" alt="picture-1" width="500" height="128" /></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>What is Kleinmania?</strong></span></p> <p>Kleinmania is the world’s smallest mania, the iPod shuffle of manias. It’s an outlet for ideas and observations – quite often it’s silly or banal which are two of my favourite commodities. It’s my contribution to the war on sincerity.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1040" title="nua0cdkdqo6dj4nycstxhkgu" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/nua0cdkdqo6dj4nycstxhkgu.jpg" alt="nua0cdkdqo6dj4nycstxhkgu" width="500" height="375" /><br /> </span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><br /> <strong>Who is “Klein” ?</strong><br /> </span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">I’m a graphic designer in Sydney, although I don’t consider Kleinmania a design project by any means – it’s not always pleasing to the eye. People who know me get the irony that I would profess to any kind of mania because I’m pretty quiet and mellow but hopefully my work speaks louder than me.</span></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div> <p><strong>I get an ‘office humour’ vibe from Kleinmania.<br /> </strong></p> <p>That’s an interesting observation because it evolves day to day without any real agenda. I try to make at least one thing new every day which often means that I have no idea what will be on there tomorrow.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div> <p><strong>Do you work in a cubicle?</strong></p> <p>I work in a noisy open plan studio with some very funny and creative people to bounce ideas off.<span style="color: #000000;"> I think I drive them a bit nuts sometimes. We don’t have cubicles, but maybe it would be nice to have a little privacy – especially on those occasions when you need to deep etch assorted Steven Seagal images without arousing suspicion.</span></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>If you were to work in a cubicle, what would your fantasy cubicle look like?</strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><br style="color: #000099;" />My dream cubicle would be a Rubik’s cubicle and it would hover…and have a cheesy laugh track for every time I posted something.</span></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1052" title="predator-1" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/predator-1.gif" alt="predator-1" width="480" height="480" /><br /> </span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>There are a few reoccurring topics on your site that I’ve noticed (Seinfeld, Hulk Hogan, Star Wars), is there a common thread here? A theme, perhaps a zeitgeist you are attempting to capture?</strong></span></p> <p>If only it were something so profound. I grew up with all three at various stages but there are many influences I have yet to exploit. The eighties in particular offered so much in that respect and I’m interested to see what becomes of more contemporary figures in popular culture.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div> <p>We burn through memes so quickly now that things seem to have a much shorter shelf life. It’s not entirely a bad thing, but I wonder if we’ll be amused by references to keyboard cat in twenty years.<br style="color: #000099;" /></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1046" title="nua0cdkdqo8v168fg6fjgrrfo1_r1_400" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/nua0cdkdqo8v168fg6fjgrrfo1_r1_400.gif" alt="nua0cdkdqo8v168fg6fjgrrfo1_r1_400" width="500" height="334" /></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div> <p><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flubber">Flubber</a> seems to be one of your aesthetic obsessions, what about the film do you find so captivating?</strong><br /> <strong> </strong><br style="color: #000099;" /><br style="color: #000099;" />The film is widely regarded as flop, so to me it represents a product not living up to its hype and the banality of advertising in general. Take a slogan, replace the product name with fictitious slime, and it still makes much (or as little) sense as the original message did.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1047" title="nua0cdkdqke4eb37oaylkt1yo1_400" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/nua0cdkdqke4eb37oaylkt1yo1_400.jpg" alt="nua0cdkdqke4eb37oaylkt1yo1_400" width="500" height="500" /></p> <p><strong>This is interesting, it definitely speaks to the art director in me and the range of emotions I experience when working with text, what was the inspiration for this?</strong></p> <p>I’m a type nerd, and a Kubrick fan (the Full Metal Jacket movie poster originally read “Born to Kill”) so that one came together quite naturally. Kerning is an interesting process because it can be very time consuming and it’s usually invisible, as in you only notice it when it’s bad.</p> <p>Some of the things I’ve done to type on Kleinmania are almost criminal, but that’s usually intentional…and fun. Typographers can take it all way too seriously sometimes so it’s good to stir the pot a little bit. To my knowledge nobody has ever died from poor kerning.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1048" title="nua0cdkdql5k529wlno8zmeao1_400" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/nua0cdkdql5k529wlno8zmeao1_400.jpg" alt="nua0cdkdql5k529wlno8zmeao1_400" width="500" height="750" /></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div> <p><strong>Now, this blew my mind when I first saw it, I was like “shit, what the fuck am I looking at?” and then I realized you had perfectly expressed the dream-like temporality of growing up in the 80s. Can you tell us about the creative process behind Mr. ET?</strong></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">When I was about seven years old I wanted to be Mr T, but there were obstacles to overcome, being </span><span style="color: #000000;">Australian, </span><span style="color: #000000;">white, and seven to name a few. Although</span><span style="color: #000000;"> oddly enough I did have a stunning beard (jokes). I also wanted a glowing index finger, but since none of those goals were immediately attainable I resorted to drawing both characters, often together.</span></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1049" title="nua0cdkdqn68es5cxpc6gnr1o1_400" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/nua0cdkdqn68es5cxpc6gnr1o1_400.jpg" alt="nua0cdkdqn68es5cxpc6gnr1o1_400" width="500" height="396" /></span><span style="color: #000000;"><br style="color: #000099;" /></span></p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div> <p><strong>This is great. I would love to have a poster of this hanging above my desk as a painful reminder of the ultimate redundancy of our actions. </strong></p> <p>You got it in one, and I’d be honored for it to hang above your desk but hopefully it’s not too painful a reminder – it should also be viewed with a just a tiny amount of triumph. By recontextualising something like that you can render it benign, so that it becomes an object to amuse you. You might not even think about the grazed elbows with the sand and the stinging when you look at it.</p> <div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Do you believe in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_doomsday_prediction">2012</a>?</strong></span></p> <p>2012…I don’t really believe in the doomsday predictions but I do believe that a cultural shift is on its way, where people will become less materialistic and therefore less at the mercy of giant corporations. I think there are small signs this is already starting to happen…but I’d better stop now because I’m teatering on the edge of sincerity.</p> </div> </div> <div id="post-510" class="post"> <div class="postMeta"> <p class="container"> <span class="date">May 19, 2009</span> <span class="comments"><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/05/tokyo-design-festa/#respond" title="Comment on Tokyo Design Festa!">0</a></span> </p> </div> <h2><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/05/tokyo-design-festa/" title="Tokyo Design Festa!">Tokyo Design Festa!</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-511" title="cimg1287" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/cimg1287-550x412.jpg" alt="cimg1287" width="550" height="412" /></p> <p>Design Festa is a biannual event held at Tokyo Big Sight in Odaiba. It began in 1994 and just finished it’s 29th run – with over 2,600 booths this weekend. I was only able to go for one day but I made sure to see everything. It took me a full 7 hours to cover it all but my sense of accomplishment at the end was pretty rewarding…and I was just a viewer – the artists must be exhausted. I talked with hundreds of people (as much as I could, with my limited Japanese), took pictures, collected dozens of business cards and brochures, and now after much deliberation present to you my top picks (in no particular order):</p> <p> <a href="http://pblks.com/2009/05/tokyo-design-festa/#more-510" class="more-link">Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <div id="post-121" class="post"> <div class="postMeta"> <p class="container"> <span class="date">Mar 23, 2009</span> <span class="comments"><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/03/art-city-limits/#comments" title="Comment on Art City Limits: Geoff McFetridge">3</a></span> </p> </div> <h2><a href="http://pblks.com/2009/03/art-city-limits/" title="Art City Limits: Geoff McFetridge">Art City Limits: Geoff McFetridge</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-170" title="picture-13" src="http://pblks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/picture-13.png" alt="picture-13" width="530" height="262" /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">We live in the age of the “creative,” a label that can be applied to anyone even marginally interested in anything inventive. If you’re familiar with the term, you’re probably one of us. You might be a designer, a photographer pulling espresso for rent, or maybe a writer “sourcing” the service industry for inspiration. It doesn’t really matter. Anyone can self-publish on the internet and blow up globally, blurring the line between fact/content and fiction/hype. What does matter, it seems, is where one resides.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://pblks.com/2009/03/art-city-limits/#more-121" class="more-link">Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <div id="paginateIndex" class="fix"> <p><span class="left"></span> <span class="right"></span></p> </div> </div> <div class="secondaryColumn"> <div id="tumblr-widget-12" class="widgetContainer Tumblr"><h3 class="widgetTitle">the wire:</h3><ul><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Der Spiegel</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,682852,00.html#ref=rss"><strong>The Soldiers Call It War Porn</strong></a>: <em>War used to be a very serious decision. Now we don’t even declare war anymore. We don’t pay war taxes, we don’t buy war bonds. Now we can carry it out without having to deal with some of the consequences of sending our sons and daughters into harm’s way. It also changes the way politicians think about war. You already have society’s barriers against war dropping, and now you have a technology that takes the barriers to the ground.</em></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/458645159" class="tumblr_link">03/19/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Foreign Policy</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/03/16/gazas_tragically_peculiar_economy"><strong>Gaza’s tragically peculiar economy</strong></a>: <em>When I was in Gaza in January I had an opportunity to both speak with tunnel operators and view the tunnels themselves. One can’t help but be struck by how ubiquitous the tunnel trade has become. Most of what one buys in Gaza seems to have come through a tunnel: shoes, clothing, chocolate bars, utensils, appliances. Even fiancés, livestock, automobiles, and a lion have been brought into Gaza this way. (The drugged but uncaged lion, it seems, woke up part way across. After puzzling how to recapture it, smugglers built two halves of a makeshift cage, which were then separately lowered into the tunnel from the Gaza and Egyptian ends, and very, very carefully pushed together.)</em></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/458644000" class="tumblr_link">03/19/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>The Nation</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://Coalition%20of%20the%20Shilling%20"><strong>Coalition of the Shilling</strong></a>:<em> As newspapers close foreign bureaus and shrink newsrooms—threatening independent national security reporting at a time when the United States is involved in two wars—think tanks like CNAS have moved to fill the void in new and old media. And while tightfisted newspaper publishers may be less than generous with book leave, think tanks like CNAS and ISW offer a place to work on long-form journalism free of daily deadline pressure. </em></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/448460949" class="tumblr_link">03/14/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Robert D. Kaplan</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/04/man-versus-afghanistan/7983"><strong>Man VS Afghanistan</strong></a>: <em>“Doubt,” T. E. Lawrence wrote in Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926), is “our modern crown of thorns.” The Special Operations forces that McChrystal led in Iraq were not so afflicted, despite a home front—especially a policy nomenklatura in Washington—that by 2006 had given up on the war. McChrystal, whom Williams called “the singularly most impressive military officer I ever served with,” has never submitted to fate. His oft-documented physical regimen—running eight miles a day, eating one meal a day, and sleeping four hours a night—itself expresses an unyielding, almost cultic determination.</em></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/448301016" class="tumblr_link">03/14/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Washington Post</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031103653.html"><strong>CIA drone attacks produce America’s own unlawful combatants</strong></a>: <em>CIA civilian personnel who repeatedly and directly participate in hostilities may have what recent <a href="http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/direct-participation-ihl-faq-020609">guidance from the International Committee of the Red Cross</a> terms “a continuous combat function.” That status, the ICRC guidance says, makes them legitimate targets whenever and wherever they may be found, including Langley. While the guidance speaks in terms of non-state actors, there is no reason why the same is not true of civilian agents of state actors such as the United States. </em></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/448297488" class="tumblr_link">03/14/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Immanuel Wallerstein</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.iwallerstein.com/greek-mess-euromess-western-nations-mess-world-mess/"><b>Greek Mess, Euromess, Western Nations Mess, World Mess?</b></a> <i>Greece’s problems are indeed Germany’s problems. Germany’s problems are indeed the United States’ problems. And the United States’ problems are indeed the world’s problems. Analyzing who did what in the last ten years is far less useful than discussing what, if anything, can be done in the next ten years. What is going on is a world-wide game of chicken. Everyone seems to be waiting for who will flinch first. Someone is going to make a mistake. And then we’ll have what Barry Eichengreen has called “the mother of all financial crises.” Even China will be affected by that one.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/436874310" class="tumblr_link">03/09/10</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/20100322/hari/single"><b>The Wrong Kind of Green</b></a>: <i>It has taken two decades for this corrupting relationship to become the norm among the big green organizations. Imagine this happening in any other sphere, and it becomes clear how surreal it is. It is as though Amnesty International’s human rights reports came sponsored by a coalition of the Burmese junta, Dick Cheney and Robert Mugabe. For environmental groups to take funding from the very people who are destroying the environment is preposterous—yet it is now taken for granted. </i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/436873263" class="tumblr_link">03/09/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Arts Technica</h3><p><p><b><a target="_blank" href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/how-nokia-helped-iran-persecute-and-arrest-dissidents.ars">How Nokia helped Iran “persecute and arrest” dissidents</a>:</b> <i>Journalist Hanna Nikkanen quotes Nokia’s Lauri Kivinen saying that “there’s been this perception internationally that we’ve supplied them [Iran] with internet surveillance equipment, but this is not true. The statement was made on February 20, 2010, but Nikkanen obtained leaked manuals to the equipment in question and concluded, ” The surveillance made possible by the Nokia Lawful Interception Gateway (LIG) extends to mobile internet usage. Either Kivinen was lying or his knowledge of his company’s core competence field isn’t quite adequate.”</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/428335015" class="tumblr_link">03/05/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Vanity Fair | Hitchens</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/04/hitchens-201004?currentPage=1"><b>The New Commandments</b></a>:<span class="dc"> <i>W</i></span><i>hat do we say when we want to revisit a long-standing policy or scheme that no longer seems to be serving us or has ceased to produce useful results? We begin by saying tentatively, “Well, it’s not exactly written in stone.” (Sometimes this comes out as “not set in stone.” By that, people mean that it’s not one of the immutable Tablets of the Law. Thus, more recent fetishes such as the gold standard, or the supposedly holy laws of the free market, can be discarded as not being incised on granite or marble. But what if it is the original stone version that badly needs a re-write? Who will take up the revisionist chisel?</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/428317449" class="tumblr_link">03/05/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Salon</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2010/02/23/counterculture/index.html"><b>Glenn Beck is the new Abbie Hoffman</b></a>: <i>Just as the New Left claimed that the New Deal era wasn’t really liberal, so the countercultural right claims that the Republican Party from Nixon to George W. Bush wasn’t really conservative. ’60s radicals like Carl Oglesby denounced John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson as sinister “corporate liberals” in the same way that the radicals of the right claim that the two Bushes, if not the sainted Reagan, were inauthentic “big government conservatives.” The radical left had Ralph Nader. The radical right has Ron Paul.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/421868982" class="tumblr_link">03/02/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Granta</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Borges-and-Me-and-Me"><b>Borges and Me, and Me</b></a>: <i>Was this the most significant moment of my life so far? Who knew if this collision with great literature would be the trigger of other stories, or the Fukuyama-esque end of my history as a writer – because what would be the point of writing anything if I went down in history as the person who killed Borges? Luckily for me, Borges was alive. I saw Borges, on his back, the stick across his chest, opening and closing his mouth like one of those canaries sent down into the bowels of coal mines to detect a lack of oxygen. It was poetic justice, I think: the plot that brought together two invisible men who managed to meet, and, upon not seeing each other, collide.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/413072559" class="tumblr_link">02/26/10</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/20100301/alperowitz_et_al?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ArticlesFromTheNation+(The+Nation%3A+All+Articles)&utm_content=Google+Reader"><b>The Cleveland Model</b></a>: <i>Something important is happening in Cleveland: a new model of large-scale worker- and community-benefiting enterprises is beginning to build serious momentum in one of the cities most dramatically impacted by the nation’s decaying economy. The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (ECL)—a worker-owned, industrial-size, thoroughly “green” operation—opened its doors late last fall in Glenville, a neighborhood with a median income hovering around $18,000. It’s the first of ten major enterprises in the works in Cleveland, where the poverty rate is more than 30 percent and the population has declined from 900,000 to less than 450,000 since 1950.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/393340217" class="tumblr_link">02/16/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>LA Times</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/14/local/la-me-blacktar14-2010feb14"><b>A lethal business model targets Middle America</b></a>: <i>Immigrants from Xalisco in the Pacific Coast state of Nayarit, Mexico, they have brought an audacious entrepreneurial spirit to the heroin trade. Their success stems from both their product, which is cheaper and more potent than Colombian heroin, and their business model, which places a premium on customer convenience and satisfaction.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/393323955" class="tumblr_link">02/16/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Le Monde</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://mondediplo.com/2010/01/05copenhagen"><b>What apocalypses are you nostalgic for?</b></a> <i>It’s clear now that, from her immoveable titanium bangs to her chaotic approximation of human speech, Sarah Palin is a Terminator cyborg sent from the future to destroy something – but what? It could be the Republican Party she’ll ravage by herding the fundamentalists and extremists into a place where sane fiscal conservatives and swing voters can’t follow. Or maybe she was sent to destroy civilisation at this crucial moment by preaching the gospel of climate-change denial, abetted by tools like the Washington Post, which ran a factually outrageous editorial by her on the subject on 9 December 2009. No one (even her, undoubtedly) knows, but we do know that this month we all hover on the brink.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/380731933" class="tumblr_link">02/09/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>The Guardian</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/23/cctv-sky-police-plan-drones"><b>CCTV in the Sky</b></a>:<a title="More from guardian.co.uk on Police" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/police"> <i>Police</i></a><i> in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the ”routine” monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state <a title="More from guardian.co.uk on Surveillance" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/surveillance">surveillance</a>. The arms manufacturer <a title="More from guardian.co.uk on BAE Systems" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/baesystems">BAE Systems</a>, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is adapting the military-style planes for a consortium of government agencies led by Kent police.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/372637119" class="tumblr_link">02/05/10</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/content/apocalypse_tendency_crisis"><b>Apocalypse, Tendency, Crisis</b></a>: <i>In a time of crisis apocalyptic desires and fantasies become pressing and real. Norman Cohn’s In Pursuit of the Millennium offers a secret history of the periodic emergence of a ‘revolutionary eschatology’ in the Middle Ages in response to a collapsing social order, immiseration, disease and war. Responding to crisis these dreamers dared to imagine an apocalypse that would turn the world upside down, and create a new heaven on earth in which Princes would bow to peasants. Of course the apocalypse that became real was often the apocalypse of repression.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/372634853" class="tumblr_link">02/05/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>The Nation | Lessig</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100222/lessig">How to Get Our Democracy Back</a>:<i> This is corruption. Not the corruption of bribes, or of any other crime known to Title 18 of the US Code. Instead, it is a corruption of the faith Americans have in this core institution of our democracy. The vast majority of Americans believe money buys results in Congress (88 percent in a recent California poll). And whether that belief is true or not, the damage is the same. The democracy is feigned. A feigned democracy breeds cynicism. Cynicism leads to disengagement. Disengagement leaves the fox guarding the henhouse. </i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/372571919" class="tumblr_link">02/05/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Slate | Hitchens</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2243112/"><b>A Nation of Racist Dwarfs</b></a>: <i>The whole idea of communism is dead in North Korea, and its most recent “Constitution,” “ratified” last April, has dropped all mention of the word. The analogies to Confucianism are glib, and such parallels with it as can be drawn are intended by the regime only for the consumption of outsiders. Myers makes a persuasive case that we should instead regard the Kim Jong-il system as a phenomenon of the very extreme and pathological right. It is based on totalitarian “military first” mobilization, is maintained by slave labor, and instills an ideology of the most unapologetic racism and xenophobia.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/366887219" class="tumblr_link">02/02/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>The New Republic</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.tnr.com/article/the-love-culture?page=0,1"><b>For the Love of Culture</b></a>: <i>Books—physical books, and the copyrighted work that gets carried in them—are an extraordinarily robust cultural artifact. We have access to practically every book ever published anywhere. You do not need to be a Harvard professor to enter the rare book room at the law library. You do not need to touch rare books to read the work those books hold. Older works—before 1923, in the United States—are in the public domain, which means that anyone, including any publisher, can copy and reprint that work without any permission from anyone else. There is no Shakespeare estate that reviews requests for new editions of Hamlet. The same is true for every nineteenth-century author in America. These works are freely and widely available, because no law restricts access to these works.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/359670188" class="tumblr_link">01/29/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>Wired</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/ff_newrevolution/all/1"><b>The Next Industrial Revolution</b></a>: <i>With the tools in place, the second part of this new industrial age is how manufacturing has been opened up to individuals, letting them scale prototypes into full production runs. Over the past few years, Chinese manufacturers have evolved to handle small orders more efficiently. This means that one-person enterprises can get things made in a factory the way only big companies could before.</i></p></p><p><a href="http://neojournalismo.tumblr.com/post/359639160" class="tumblr_link">01/29/10</a></p></li><li class="tumblr_post regular" style="padding:8px 0"><h3>The Guardian</h3><p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jan/25/cudlipp-lecture-alan-rusbridger"><b>Does Journalism Exist?</b></a>: <i>In an industry in which we get used to every trend line pointing to the floor, the growth of newspapers’ digital audience should be a beacon of hope. During the last three months of 2009 the Guardian was being read by 40% more people than during the same period in 2008. 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. 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