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  • Politics of the Very Worst

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    In this lengthy interview with Philippe Petit, Virilio articulates his ideas around technology, politics, accidents and warfare, developing an analysis of a technological culture in which accidents are no longer specific and local, but global and simultaneous.

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  • Phantasm and Simulacra: The Drawings of Pierre Klossowski

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  • Poverty of Student Life

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    First published in 1966 at University of Strasbourg by students of the University and members of the Internationale Situationiste. This newly revised translation in the year 2000 by Lorraine Perlman follows previous English translations by Black & Red in 1973 and Ken Knabb in 1999. It follows the Champ Libre edition published in Paris in 1976.

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  • Skyscrapers, Taxis & Tampons

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    A review of Skyscrapers, Taxis and Tampons Cynthia AndrewsIn one of the last episodes of “Murphy Brown” Candace Bergen is invited to her alma mater to accept an award as one of the foremost feminists of her generation. While there, she attends a “Women’s Studies” class where issues of equal rights-equal pay, birth control and abortion are replaced by an intensity of hatred for the opposite sex that even she could not anticipate or explain. Murphy was humiliated, demeaned and scorned for not understanding that the problems facing the women of today have much more to do with male domination than ever before, and that her hair-do, make-up and Ralph Lauren mini-skirt are symbols of a female bondage that should be replaced with basic black and flats. By the end of the episode Murphy Brown was not really sure what she accomplished after all. However disturbing that may seem to some, theresult is an aggressive new generation where flirtation and perfume are a thing of the past andhomosexuality is embraced with a fervor;...

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  • World Government Wall Map

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  • This is What Democracy Looks Like

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    A co-production of the Seattle Independent Media Center and Big Noise Films, THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE is a 70 minute documentary capturing the events of the 1999 anti-WTO protests in Seattle. “The documentary, like the protests, turns art into action…” – Village Voice Cut from the footage of over 100 media activists, the film marks a turning point in collaborative filmmaking and achieves a scope and vision possible only through the lenses of over 100 cameras. “One of the most important films of the year. A must-see… if you can handle the truth” – Willamette Week With a driving soundtrack including Rage Against the Machine, DJ Shadow, and Anne Feeney, as well as narration by Susan Sarandon and Michael Franti, THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE delivers an intensely political and emotional account of a week that changed the world. “Dynamic… hip… packs a wallop. ‘Democracy’ exemplifies creative professionalism within verite bounds.” – Variety More than a film,...

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