BLURB OF THE MONTH: Zizek however critiqes Hardt and Negri, somewhat unfairly contending that "Negri himself, the guru of the postmodern left, praises digital capitalism as containing in nuce all the elements of communism - one only has to drop the capitalist form and the revolutionary goal is acheived."
A JUNKIE'S LIFE FOR ME: "...Again and again and again a hotel room catches fire, sometimes just after one of Richards's houses burns - don't you just hate it when that happens? - and it's always a mouse eating through the insulation or faulty wiring...." Greil Marcus on Keith Richards' Life in the
Sunday Times Supplement.
DEPT OF THE INVISIBLE LEDE: "Somehow nobody asked the most obvious question: If NPR were truly slanted toward the liberal side, why would a phony tape of a private conversation be needed as proof?"
Joe Conason in TruthDig
Published on March 21, 2011 12:30