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Anarchy

Anarchy and information

Friday, July 4th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I first came across Siva Vaidhyanathan’s excellent and wonderfully lucid book, The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System, via Wes Unruh’s recommendation on Alterati.com.
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Review: Fallen Nation, by James Curcio

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning, by James Curcio
Mythos Media, 9781419672651, 271 pp., 2007
Fallen Nation, James Curcio’s second book, takes up where Join My Cult! left off. Agent 139 and Jesus are in a maximum security mental institution held as suspected terrorists after a restaurant was blown up in the previous novel. Agent 139 wryly comments:
“Bottom [...]

Chaos, by Hakim Bey

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

CHAOS NEVER DIED. Primordial uncarved block, sole worshipful monster, inert & spontaneous, more ultraviolet than any mythology (like the shadows before Babylon), the original undifferentiated oneness-of-being still radiates serene as the black pennants of Assassins, random & perpetually intoxicated.