Joe Bageant's Blog, page 5

Algorithms and Red Wine

Life is lived anecdotally, not algorithmically. And anecdotal evidence is not allowed in the new digital corpocracy. As one poster on Democratic Underground put it, "Anecdotal now has this enforced meaning such that no one is supposed to believe what they experience, what they see, hear, taste, smell, etc.

Video of Joe at Brisbane Writers Festival

On his recent tour of Australia, Joe Bageant was interviewed the Australian Broadcasting Company's Steve Austin at the Brisbane Writers Festival. One-hour video.

Tea Party is just a media spectacle

"The Tea Party is a media spectacle to make working people believe they have power," Joe Bageant said during an interview on RT, a global television network based in Moscow, Russia.

Down Under radio interviews with Joe

Joe Bageant is on a two-week tour of Australia and New Zealand where he is talking about his new book, Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir, a new release by Scribe Publications.

Understanding America's Class System

You do not need to see an egg-sucking dog in action to know what to expect -- or not to expect. The track record of the political class is an open book. As the layer of millionaires buffering the elites who pay for their campaigns, they've done their jobs. They approved the Bush administration's massive tax cut for the rich.

Joe's Australia, New Zealand book tour

Joe Bageant will be on a two-week tour of Australia and New Zealand, starting 27 August 2010. He will talk about his new book, Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir, to be released by Scribe Publications in Australia and New Zealand during his tour. At two writers' festivals, Joe will also discuss his first book, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War.

Here's one of the early reviews of Rainbow Pie: "An amazing read. What Harper Lee had to hide behind fiction to write, Joe Bage...

Bageant, Chomsky featured in film

Joe Bageant is featured in a documentary film now in production, titled "The Kingdom of Survival", scheduled for release in November. Others in the film are Noam Chomsky, Mark Mirabello, Ramsey Kanaan,, Sasha Lilley, Mike Oehler, Bob Meisenbach, and Will "The Bull" Taylor.

Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball

As an Anglo European white guy from a very long line of white guys, I want to thank all the brown, black, yellow and red people for a marvelous three-century joy ride. During the past 300 years of the industrial age, as Europeans, and later as Americans, we have managed to consume infinitely more than we ever produced.

Live from Planet Norte

We can be sure however, that it has to do with consuming. Everything in America has to do with consuming. So much so that we find not the slightest embarrassment in calling ourselves "the consumer society." Which is probably just as well, since calling ourselves something such as "the just society" might have been aiming too high?

Lost on the Fearless Plain

Safely in the American national illusion, where all the world's a shopping expedition. Or a terrorist threat. No matter, as long as it is colorful and wiggles on the theater state's 400 million screens. Plug in and be lit up by the American Hologram.