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- Preoccupation: Notes on Anne Boyer and Stephanie Young
- Top 40 Countdown 2011: The Riot Girls
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- A Report on Occupy Oakland: Part 2
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Preoccupation: Notes on Anne Boyer and Stephanie Young
[Books]
Lauren Levin
‘Empty’ space is crowded – with ideology, deference, hierarchy, and fear, as well as with love and perseverance. In that crowd, we’re searching for forms that allow action with others – forms that are self-reproducing, allow life-dense accrual, like a coral reef – but haven’t hardened into script.
Top 40 Countdown 2011: The Riot Girls
[Music]
jclo
Saluton! — and welcome to the year-end essay, capping the countdown of 2011's Top 40 songs from the Council on Five Paragraph Essays. The full list is at the bottom, but for the purposes of this summary, it's worth looking at the Top 12.
2011: The Riot Girls.
12) Till The World Ends, Britney Spears.
11) Bumpin Bumpin, Kreayshawn.
10) My Kinda Party, Jason Aldean.
9) Automatik, Livvi Franc.
8) You Lie, The Band Perry.
7) Cheers (Drink To That), Rihanna.
6) Blow, Ke$ha.
5) Storm Warning, Hunter Hayes.
4) Yoü and I, Lady GaGa.
3) Stay Away, Charli XCX.
2) We Found Love, Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris.
1) Gucci Gucci, Kreayshawn.
4 from Occupy: reports on Occupy Santa Cruz, Occupy Portland, Occupy Detroit, and Occupy Oakland
[General]
Pat Cabell, Bryan Coffelt, Benjamin Bourlier, and Casey McAlduff
Four takes on the movement
A Note from Oakland on the Events of 10/25
[General]
Gillian O. B. Hamel
Progressing into night, downtown Oakland took on a weak apocalyptic appearance.
A Report on Occupy Oakland: Part 2
[General]
Brian Ang
Tomorrow is the general strike and no one knows exactly what will happen. People will improvise consciously and instinctively.
Notes From an Occupied New York City, After October 14th
[General]
Josef Kaplan, Aaron Winslow, Erika Marquez
In Denver, Boston, Oakland, Kansas City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, elsewhere—each occupation has chosen struggle.
From Occupied Kansas City
[General]
Anne Boyer
I learn that since 1967 six people are a riot. I tell this to my friend, and, she says, of this Kansas City, “We’re chill until we’re not.”
History Lessons from Elsinore: A Review of Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba
[Books]
Mario Diaz-Perez
It is not just the state of Denmark that is rotten, but every state.
A Report on the Durruti Free Skool
[General]
Brian Ang
The Durruti Free Skool project, conceived by Joshua Clover and Juliana Spahr, had its meet up this past weekend with participants from the San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Philadelphia, Hawaii, and Vancouver
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