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Review: The Final Freedoms ©free

On the horizon is an approaching religious, cultural and scientific furore so contentious, any clash of civilizations may have to wait. On one side, a manuscript titled: The Final Freedoms, against all the gravitas religious tradition can bring to bear.

Reconstructing Mayakovsky is a new hybrid media novel inspired by Vladimir Mayakovsky, the Russian Futurist poet who killed himself in 1930 at the age of 36. The novel imagines a dystopia where uncertainty and tragedy have been eliminated through technology.  As readers discover Mayakovsky’s biography (prison at age 15, lifelong affair with his editor’s wife, fame, revolution, suicide, posthumous resurrection by Joseph Stalin), they explore their own fears and fantasies about the future.

Mute's Feeding Frenzy

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(reposting from the new Gasworks Pipeline commentary & materials site - very contemporary counter-Green polemic from 1970)

The French Group, which has been invited to this conference, has decided not to bring a positive contribution.

The group believes that too many matters, and essential ones, have not been voiced here as regards the social and political status of Design, as regards the ideological functions and the mythology of environment.

The industrial and mining towns on the Eastern outskirts of Johannesburg are unlovely places. They’re set on flat windswept plains amidst the dumps of sterile sand left over from old mines. In winter the wind bites, the sky is a very pale blue and it seems to be all coal braziers, starved dogs, faded strip malls, gun shops and rusting factories and mine headgear. All that seems new are the police cars and, round the corner from the Harry Gwala shack settlement, a double story facebrick strip club.

But even here the battle for land continues.

¡Fuera Ulises!, is a new graphic interpretation of the events in Oaxaca from an antiauthoritarian and anarchist perspective.
The booklet is 6 pages in length, full color, and is a run down of the events of last year. The booklet is also very critical of the actions of ‘politicos’ within APPO to hijack the popular movement for it’s own ends.

From: http://www.collectivereinventions.org/