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I've made an honest effort to read the literary classics. I even made it a third of the way through Ulysses. But the genre I always end up coming back to is science fiction. Especially "hard sf"; science fiction that allows any leap of the authors imagination within the boundaries of plausible science. What great fun to read about distant corners of the universe, the far future or explorations of the here and now that are not just flights of fancy. They could in some way really happen.
Here are some writers who do it particularly well:
- Larry Niven (Mote in God's Eye is a must)
- Greg Bear ( The Forge of God and especially it's sequel Anvil of Stars are excellent)
- David Brin
- Gregory Benford
- Dave Wolverton (I can hardly believe that On My Way to Paradise was the first novel he wrote)
- Orson Scott Card (not necessarily "hard" but you'll never hear me complain)
- Stanislaw Lem ( you may have read Solaris, but try Fiasco)
- John Brunner ( A Maze of Stars takes an interesting look at where we are and what we're up to a hundred thousand years in the future)
- Vernor Vinge ( A Fire Upon the Deep may be the best space opera you'll ever read)
- Michael Swanwick (Stations of the Tide)
I get a kick out of reading some such then splashing some paint around to make a scene inspired by what I read. The above are a few examples.

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Amnesty International, Avaaz, Center for American Progress, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, National Endowment for Democracy [NED], Social Engineering, USAID, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Amnesty International Avaaz Center for American Progress (CAP) Chad CIA DarfurGenocide.org Democratic Republic of the Congo ENOUGH Project Horn of Africa Human Rights Watch National Endowment for Democracy (NED) northern Uganda Oxfam Pax Americana Regime Change Res Publica Ricken Patel Somalia Sudan Tom Perriello UNHCR USAID "Responsibility to Protect"
Enough of CIA's 'Enough Project' in Africa! [Avaaz, International Crisis Group, Center for American Progress]
Libya360 | Internationalist News Agency
Cross-posted from TeleSUR
October 7, 2016
By Thomas C. Mountain
The "Enough Project" claims it's mission is to prevent genocide in Africa, but has been conspicuously silent when it comes to the genocidal famine in Somalia.
WKOG editor: As people finally become aware of Avaaz – as a key instrument of empire – watch for the Enough Project which could, if embraced by the public, become the new NGO assigned to create acquiescence for the destabilization of targeted countries. The Enough Project was co-founded by the Center for American Progress (see below) and the International Crisis Group in 2007. Key partners include Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam and UNHCR. Enough is a project of the New Venture Fund, and is based in Washington, DC. Its co-founders are John Prendergast (former Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council) and Gayle Smith (current administrator of the United States Agency for International Development).
"ENOUGH operates under the umbrella of the Democratic Party's corporate funded propaganda and influence peddling operation, The Center for American Progress (CAP)." Former Democratic congressman and Avaaz co-founder Tom Perriello served as President and CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund and as a Counselor for Policy at Center for American Progress until July of 2015 when he was appointed Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes and the Congo-Kinshasa by the White House.
"The Enough Project focuses on Africa" – Sudan, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, and the Horn of Africa.
The Enough Project has worked hand-in-hand with Avaaz in the past.
Perriello and Avaaz co-founder Ricken Patel also co-founded and co-directed DarfurGenocide.org which officially launched in 2004. "DarfurGenocide.org is a project of Avaaz co-founder Res Publica, a group of public sector professionals dedicated to promoting good governance and virtuous civic cultures."Today, this organization is now known as "Darfurian Voices": "Darfurian Voices is a project of 24 Hours for Darfur." The U.S. Department of State and the Open Society Institute were just two of the organization's funders and collaborating partners. Other Darfurian Voices partners include Avaaz, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), International Centre for Transitional Justice, Darfur Rehabilitation Project, Humanity United, Darfur People's Association of New York, Genocide Intervention, Witness, Yale Law School, The Sigrid Rausing Trust and the Bridgeway Foundation. Of all the listed partners of DarfurGenocide.org, with the exception of one located in London, England, all of the entities involved are American and based on U.S. soil.
Despite the carefully crafted language and images that tug at your emotions, such NGOs were created for and exist for one primary purpose – to protect and further American policy and interests, under the guise of philanthropy and humanitarianism.
Enough of the CIA's "Enough Project" in Africa!
EP, as it is known, was founded by senior U.S. Intel "spook" Gayle Smith, former Senior Director of the National Security Council under President Obama and now head of the USAID/CIA.
Today EP is headed by Ms. Smith's protégé John Prendergast whose history as head of EP is one of subterfuge and lies in service to Pax Americana.
EP claims it's mission is to prevent genocide in Africa, as in the name "Enough Project", yet has been conspicuously silent when it comes to the genocidal famine in Somalia during the Great Horn of Africa Drought in 2011-12 where 250,000 Somali children starved to death.
Recently George Clooney was enjoying 15 minutes of fame as a humanitarian claiming to have exposed massive corruption in South Sudan when he should have been warning the world of the U.N.'s next genocide in Somalia as in 300,000 starving children. Soon the genocide in Somalia will hit its peak with hundreds, up to 1,000 children a day dying from hunger with only a deafening silence emanating from the CIA's Enough Project.
EP, with support from its big brother the Center for American Progress, only once in its history raised a real genocide, that back in 2007-8 when Gayle Smith was out to political pasture, she being a rabid democrat during the Bush Jr. years in office. Then she was part of the Democrat "opposition" to the Bush regime and oh so briefly raised the food and medical aid blockade in the Ogaden in Ethiopia, where the only instance of both the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders being expelled from a famine stricken region has been allowed.
Once Ms. Smith jumped on the Obama For President bandwagon, no further mention of the genocide in the Ogaden was heard.
Today EP is proving its loyalty to Pax Americana by playing huckster for regime change in South Sudan, as in denying China access to African oil via the invasion of "peacekeepers" in the name of Responsibility To Protect of Libyan infamy. The USA has abandoned former "rebel leader" Riek Machar in favor of direct military intervention by the U.N. and the USA's gendarme in Africa, the African Union.
The Chinese have started to expand their oil production so expect to hear louder cries of outrage from the likes of EP about various crimes and even "genocide" in South Sudan followed by demands for more foreign military intervention in the country.
With all their lies and subterfuge, don't you think that we here in Africa have had enough of the CIA's Enough Project?
[Thomas C. Mountain is an independent journalist in Eritrea living and reporting from here since 2006.]
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Launched in 2010, the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project is an ongoing effort to build a comprehensive public resource to study tissue-specific gene expression and regulation across nearly 1000 individuals. The GTEx data collections include whole genome sequencing for each donor, RNA sequencing from 53 major tissue sites, and computational analyses such as associations between genotype and gene expression (called expression quantitative trait loci, or eQTLs). The GTEx web portal (http://gtexportal.org) has an average of 15,000 users per month, and serves as the main gateway to explore the GTEx resources. The portal facilitates exploration of these multidimensional and highly integrated data with intuitive and rapid visualizations. Here, we present new visual tools available on the portal, including comparative viewers for tissue-specific expression at gene, transcript, and exon levels, as well as a Gene-eQTL Visualizer for exploration of tissue-specific regulatory effects of genetic variations acting on a gene of interest.


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Joining a rare natural warmth with a fierce commitment to the transforming communicative power of music, Dawn Upshaw has achieved worldwide celebrity as a singer of opera and concert repertoire ranging from the sacred works of Bach to the freshest sounds of today. Her ability to reach to the heart of music and text has earned her both the devotion of an exceptionally diverse audience, and the awards and distinctions accorded to only the most distinguished of artists. In 2007, she was named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, the first vocal artist to be awarded the five-year "genius" prize, and in 2008 she was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Her acclaimed performances on the opera stage comprise the great Mozart roles (Susanna, Ilia, Pamina, Despina, and Zerlina) as well as modern works by Stravinsky, Poulenc, and Messiaen. From Salzburg, Paris and Glyndebourne to the Metropolitan Opera, where she began her career in 1984 and has since made nearly 300 appearances, Dawn Upshaw has also championed numerous new works created for her including The Great Gatsby by John Harbison; the Grawemeyer Award-winning opera, L'Amour de Loin and oratorio La Passion de Simone by Kaija Saariaho; John Adams's Nativity oratorio El Niño; and Osvaldo Golijov's chamber opera Ainadamar and song cycle Ayre.
It says much about Dawn Upshaw's sensibilities as an artist and colleague that she is a favored partner of many leading musicians, including Gilbert Kalish, the Kronos Quartet, James Levine, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. In her work as a recitalist, and particularly in her work with composers, Dawn Upshaw has become a generative force in concert music, having premiered more than 25 works in the past decade. From Carnegie Hall to large and small venues throughout the world she regularly presents specially designed programs composed of lieder, contemporary works in many languages, and folk and popular music. She furthers this work in master classes and workshops with young singers at major music festivals, conservatories, and liberal arts colleges. She is Artistic Director of the Vocal Arts Program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, and the recently announced Head of the Vocal Arts Program at the Tanglewood Music Center.
A five-time Grammy Award winner, Dawn Upshaw, most recently received the 2014 Best Classical Vocal Solo Grammy for Maria Schneider's Winter Morning Walks on the ArtistShare Label. She is featured on more than 50 recordings, including the million-selling Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Gorecki for Nonesuch Records. Her discography also includes full-length opera recordings of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro; Messiaen's St. Francois d'Assise; Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress; John Adams's El Niño; two volumes of Canteloube's "Songs of the Auvergne," a dozen recital recordings, and an acclaimed three-disc series of Osvaldo Golijov's music for Deutsche Grammophon.
Dawn Upshaw holds honorary doctorate degrees from Yale, the Manhattan School of Music, the Juilliard School, Allegheny College, and Illinois Wesleyan University. She began her career as a 1984 winner of the Young Concert Artists Auditions and the 1985 Walter W. Naumburg Competition, and was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Young Artists Development Program.
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Some of the wealthiest people in America—in Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond—are getting ready for the crackup of civilization.
Steve Huffman, the thirty-three-year-old co-founder and C.E.O. of Reddit, which is valued at six hundred million dollars, was nearsighted until November, 2015, when he arranged to have laser eye surgery. He underwent the procedure not for the sake of convenience or appearance but, rather, for a reason he doesn't usually talk much about: he hopes that it will improve his odds of surviving a disaster, whether natural or man-made. "If the world ends—and not even if the world ends, but if we have trouble—getting contacts or glasses is going to be a huge pain in the ass," he told me recently. "Without them, I'm fucked."
Huffman, who lives in San Francisco, has large blue eyes, thick, sandy hair, and an air of restless curiosity; at the University of Virginia, he was a competitive ballroom dancer, who hacked his roommate's Web site as a prank. He is less focussed on a specific threat—a quake on the San Andreas, a pandemic, a dirty bomb—than he is on the aftermath, "the temporary collapse of our government and structures," as he puts it. "I own a couple of motorcycles. I have a bunch of guns and ammo. Food. I figure that, with that, I can hole up in my house for some amount of time."
Survivalism, the practice of preparing for a crackup of civilization, tends to evoke a certain picture: the woodsman in the tinfoil hat, the hysteric with the hoard of beans, the religious doomsayer. But in recent years survivalism has expanded to more affluent quarters, taking root in Silicon Valley and New York City, among technology executives, hedge-fund managers, and others in their economic cohort.
Last spring, as the Presidential campaign exposed increasingly toxic divisions in America, Antonio García Martínez, a forty-year-old former Facebook product manager living in San Francisco, bought five wooded acres on an island in the Pacific Northwest and brought in generators, solar panels, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. "When society loses a healthy founding myth, it descends into chaos," he told me. The author of "Chaos Monkeys," an acerbic Silicon Valley memoir, García Martínez wanted a refuge that would be far from cities but not entirely isolated. "All these dudes think that one guy alone could somehow withstand the roving mob," he said. "No, you're going to need to form a local militia. You just need so many things to actually ride out the apocalypse." Once he started telling peers in the Bay Area about his "little island project," they came "out of the woodwork" to describe their own preparations, he said. "I think people who are particularly attuned to the levers by which society actually works understand that we are skating on really thin cultural ice right now."
In private Facebook groups, wealthy survivalists swap tips on gas masks, bunkers, and locations safe from the effects of climate change. One member, the head of an investment firm, told me, "I keep a helicopter gassed up all the time, and I have an underground bunker with an air-filtration system." He said that his preparations probably put him at the "extreme" end among his peers. But he added, "A lot of my friends do the guns and the motorcycles and the gold coins. That's not too rare anymore."
Tim Chang, a forty-four-year-old managing director at Mayfield Fund, a venture-capital firm, told me, "There's a bunch of us in the Valley. We meet up and have these financial-hacking dinners and talk about backup plans people are doing. It runs the gamut from a lot of people stocking up on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, to figuring out how to get second passports if they need it, to having vacation homes in other countries that could be escape havens." He said, "I'll be candid: I'm stockpiling now on real estate to generate passive income but also to have havens to go to." He and his wife, who is in technology, keep a set of bags packed for themselves and their four-year-old daughter. He told me, "I kind of have this terror scenario: 'Oh, my God, if there is a civil war or a giant earthquake that cleaves off part of California, we want to be ready.' "
When Marvin Liao, a former Yahoo executive who is now a partner at 500 Startups, a venture-capital firm, considered his preparations, he decided that his caches of water and food were not enough. "What if someone comes and takes this?" he asked me. To protect his wife and daughter, he said, "I don't have guns, but I have a lot of other weaponry. I took classes in archery."
For some, it's just "brogrammer" entertainment, a kind of real-world sci-fi, with gear; for others, like Huffman, it's been a concern for years. "Ever since I saw the movie 'Deep Impact,' " he said. The film, released in 1998, depicts a comet striking the Atlantic, and a race to escape the tsunami. "Everybody's trying to get out, and they're stuck in traffic. That scene happened to be filmed near my high school. Every time I drove through that stretch of road, I would think, I need to own a motorcycle because everybody else is screwed."
Huffman has been a frequent attendee at Burning Man, the annual, clothing-optional festival in the Nevada desert, where artists mingle with moguls. He fell in love with one of its core principles, "radical self-reliance," which he takes to mean "happy to help others, but not wanting to require others." (Among survivalists, or "preppers," as some call themselves, fema, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, stands for "Foolishly Expecting Meaningful Aid.") Huffman has calculated that, in the event of a disaster, he would seek out some form of community: "Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I'm a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove."
Over the years, Huffman has become increasingly concerned about basic American political stability and the risk of large-scale unrest. He said, "Some sort of institutional collapse, then you just lose shipping—that sort of stuff." (Prepper blogs call such a scenario W.R.O.L., "without rule of law.") Huffman has come to believe that contemporary life rests on a fragile consensus. "I think, to some degree, we all collectively take it on faith that our country works, that our currency is valuable, the peaceful transfer of power—that all of these things that we hold dear work because we believe they work. While I do believe they're quite resilient, and we've been through a lot, certainly we're going to go through a lot more."
In building Reddit, a community of thousands of discussion threads, into one of the most frequently visited sites in the world, Huffman has grown aware of the way that technology alters our relations with one another, for better and for worse. He has witnessed how social media can magnify public fear. "It's easier for people to panic when they're together," he said, pointing out that "the Internet has made it easier for people to be together," yet it also alerts people to emerging risks. Long before the financial crisis became front-page news, early signs appeared in user comments on Reddit. "People were starting to whisper about mortgages. They were worried about student debt. They were worried about debt in general. There was a lot of, 'This is too good to be true. This doesn't smell right.' " He added, "There's probably some false positives in there as well, but, in general, I think we're a pretty good gauge of public sentiment. When we're talking about a faith-based collapse, you're going to start to see the chips in the foundation on social media first."
How did a preoccupation with the apocalypse come to flourish in Silicon Valley, a place known, to the point of cliché, for unstinting confidence in its ability to change the world for the better?
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Back in January, I worried with my infinite wisdom about an application to the CRTC by Discovery Channel Canada to allow game shows as part of its programming categories. I worried that this might be an excuse to import a U.S. British trivia show called Cash Cab into Canada, stretch the limits of the channel's mandate and suck up some easy cash.
Sure enough, that's exactly what happened. The CRTC approved the change in its license, and Discovery announced that it was carbon-copying importing the format for use here. I still held out hope that the format would be predominantly educational in nature, and/or that the subjects of the questions would deal with science, technology and nature.
After watching a couple of episodes (you can see complete episodes online here), it seems my original fears were more than justified.
For those who haven't seen it (or don't want to see it), Cash Cab's format has a guy driving a van through the streets of Toronto, and then surprising people who come aboard by telling them they're on a TV game show they've never heard of (a part that's either hilarious or awkward depending on your tastes). He then asks them questions, gives money for each right answer, and when they get three wrong they're booted out of the cab.
It's nothing more than a cookie-cutter trivia show with a lame hook. Some of the questions are certainly scientific in nature, but others relate to sports, business, history and even popular culture. It's hard to distinguish these questions from the ones on every other trivia-based game show out there.
Discovery's reputation: Destroyed in Seconds
For how bad Cash Cab is, Destroyed in Seconds is worse. This embarrassment of programming is essentially a carbon copy of World's Most Amazing Videos (which currently airs on Spike TV), in all the bad ways imaginable. Here's how both shows work:
- Find a video that shows some catastrophic event: a plane crash, a bridge collapse, an explosion. Usually this will be amateur video of poor quality, but that's ok. In fact, it adds to the realness of the show.
- Ensure that nobody dies in the event that took place. You wouldn't want to be accused of profiting off someone's death, after all. You want miraculous escapes and/or recoveries here. Exceptions can be made if the video is really good and you don't actually see any bodies.
- Show the video as a man with an exaggerated voice explains the situation (usually something along the lines of "it looks like an ordinary day, but in a few seconds their lives will be in mortal danger"), until the surprising, terrifying event happens.
- Have the narrator explain, as briefly as possible, what caused the catastrophy, as well as the aftermath.
- Show the moment of catastrophe over and over and over again. Slow-motion, zoomed-in, any different way you can think of. Have the narrator point out how the people on the video were "inches from certain death" or "moments from disaster" or "lucky to escape with only minor injuries"
- Move on to the next clip.
There is no educational value to this show whatsoever. You learn nothing other than what an explosion looks like.
Compare that with a show like Mayday (my personal favourite) which re-enacts airplane accidents (with cool computer graphics) and then explains very seriously and clearly what caused them and what has been done to ensure they don't happen again. Or Mythbusters, which tests sometimes silly hypotheses, but does them in (mostly) scientific ways. Both have the idea of teaching viewers as the main focus, and entertainment is a convenient medium to do so.
For Cash Cab and Destroyed in Seconds, the main focus is to entertain. That's not a bad thing, and these shows have their homes (Cash Cab on the Game Show Network, Destroyed in Seconds on Spike TV), but neither belong on the Discovery Channel.
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Joined Stern 1994
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Tisch Hall
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New York, NY 10012
Anthony W. Lynch is a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He has also visited Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and the University of Pensylvania's Wharton School. He has been a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2002.
Professor Lynch completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland in 1989 earning a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours), a Bachelor of Laws (Honours), and a University Medal. He received his PhD in Finance and Economics from the University of Chicago in 1994.
Professor Lynch teaches the MBA course Foundations of Finance and the Ph.D. courses Finance Theory I and Seminar in Asset Pricing Theory. He has conducted research on a broad range of financial issues, but he has particular expertise in the areas of portfolio allocation, asset pricing and mutual funds. His research has been published in all the major academic finance journals including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Review of Financial Studies. Professor Lynch's papers have twice been awarded the Glucksman prize for the best research paper in finance by an NYU professor. He has served as a session chair for both the AFA and the WFA Meetings, and he is currently an Associate Editor of the Review of Finance.
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Sandy Baldwin responds to Lori Emerson.
Culture, we learn early in Walter Benn Michaels' The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History, has become a primary technology for disarticulating difference from disagreement. Why a technology? Because of the text machine that produces and articulates this notion of culture and its resulting disarticulation. In other words, as Michaels' parenthetical clause inserts and asserts, the persuasion of his argument rests on a theory of text that not only thematizes cultural difference and disagreement but thematizes text as this difference. Michaels' notion of text is difficult not in the least because he shows that concepts such as materiality and embodiment, which function almost as an intuitive background for much recent scholarship, in fact require complex sets of beliefs and institutional commitments. Worse, these concepts turn out to be ways of avoiding the rigorous work of reading and theorizing texts. Embodiment disappears as the promised land of theory, and becomes an escape to a politics of difference without disagreement - that is, without debate or critique.
However, the technology that produces cultural concepts is considerably more elusive than even Michaels allows, and Lori Emerson's helpful review does much of the hard work by using Susan Howe, a central figure in Michaels' argument, as a kind of hinge to unpack the rest of the book. At the least, Emerson sees Michaels overlooking nuances in his reading of Howe, with repercussions for the other readings comprising the book. More largely, Emerson wants to see these overlooked nuances as signs of a missed encounter between Michaels and the subjects of his book, an encounter that would not only complicate Michaels' argument but would lead to a significantly different set of claims. I will limit myself to underlining these complications to clarify what Emerson leaves implicit. In particular, I want to highlight Emerson's qualification of Michaels' arguments as seductive. I will also return to the question concerning technology and digital poetry raised briefly but importantly by Emerson.
Michaels' argument builds on an account of a shift from understanding texts in terms of their authorial meaning to understanding texts as material objects without meaning. In particular, Emerson zeroes in on Michaels' reading of Susan Howe on Emily Dickinson. Michaels argues that an emphasis on the physicality of Dickinson's work leads Howe to assume meaninglessness in Dickinson's texts. Where all physical characteristics are significant, none can mean anything significant. Texts stop making sense. It is here that Emerson begins her rescue operation, arguing that for Howe the text, however physical, must be read as an artifact of the author's act of writing and as that which bears meaning on countless different levels. The result is an open-ended multiplicity of textual meanings, or the release of the energy inherent in the referential dimension of language, in Emerson's citation of Charles Bernstein. The clear advantage to Emerson's interpretation of Howe is a much more nuanced account of poetic meaning.
Interestingly, she then proceeds to choose well-known digital poems to invoke a break from traditional modes of authorship and a claim for understanding the poem in terms of its materiality. I will return later to the specific question of the digital, but what interests me here is Emerson's claim that these digital poems are rife with intention, which appears to neutralize Michaels' claim that once we speak of materiality we can no longer speak of intention. In this instance, and overall, Emerson seems to suggest that there are certain poems that are more intentional and than others, a difference measured in terms of how much leeway the author allows the reader - we might say measured by how writerly or readerly the text is in Barthes' sense. However, this semiotic and response-oriented means of evaluation leads to terminological and conceptual problems with the use of intention and meaning - problems which stem in part from differences in usage for these terms in the phenomenological and hermeneutic tradition, on the one hand, and in the American New Critical tradition, on the other. Of course these two semantic fields are not unrelated, but their terms differ in significant ways. Furthermore, the more recent and familiar turn to semiotic theories offers an uneasy combination of phenomenology and New Criticism. The phenomenological ontology of text which is largely responsible for the semantics of intention at play in Michaels' work (via de Man, in turn via Husserl and so on) allows for neither more or less meaning nor more or less intention. Rather, the meaning of a text is the creative accomplishment of an intending subject which in turn constitutes the intentional structure of a text. Certainly it is possible to replace intentional structure with signification and semiotic reference, in which case meaning is then described as an intra-semiotic achievement. But Michaels' point here, and it is a telling one, is that this replacement involves foregoing the singular project of phenomenology along with any claim for the primacy of subjective consciousness. That is, there is no longer meaning in the strict phenomenological sense but rather a semiotic code for meaning (perhaps Barthes' hermeneutic code), just as there is no intentionality but rather a code for intention. Michaels recognizes that the result is necessarily a certain indifference to intention, for if intention is one code among others, there can be little point in arguing that we should be concerned with the beliefs of Howe or Dickinson or any other author. The seemingly generous claim that intention remains one textual code among others is cold comfort to the phenomenologist.
Michaels' point is that such claims about textual multiplicity and dissemination leave us nothing to say about belief, or at least nothing rigorous to say; we are left only with the petitio principii that we are defined by our embodied materiality. What interests Michaels, then, is the political outcome of this shift from intentionality to materiality. When texts are seen as intentional structures then they are interpreted in terms of what people believe; reading leads to an identification with ideological commitments that becomes the focus of critique. By contrast, the shift to seeing texts as material, as non-cognitive and entirely physical, can only result in an account of what people are; reading leads to an identification with the bodies of authors and readers, with embodied subjects. Text as material and the implied subject positions are beyond belief. End of discussion and triumph of the New World Order. We live and let die in terms of who we are. The Iraqi in Gitmo is tortured because he is evil, not because what he believes is evil.
For Michaels, foregrounding this shift lays bare history above and beyond the events of the day. The shift produces history, determines and organizes the events around us and by exposing this change in assumptions about the ontology of text, Michaels hopes to weaken the quasi-ontological commitments to embodiment and materiality, to make identity itself be seen as a cognitive commitment as much as a material given. Michaels' target is commitments that replace debate over the history that we make with the assertion that history comes about because we are what we are. His analysis repeats in another register the recent interest in biopolitics following Giorgio Agamben, where identity is embodied through institutional procedures which themselves are isolated from ideological scrutiny.
Again, at the same time as the shift in textual ontology produces history, texts are also up for grabs. However, the belief and debate that interests Michaels cannot be separated from the poetics of texts. Texts remain in advance of history as media structures in some way fungible and deep enough to permit continual renewal and return. Thus the material absoluteness of the historical shift Michaels identifies - a shift that explains everything since at least 1967 - is relativized by the mediality of texts. Texts resist any theory that would make them simply material or simply intentional. It is here that Emerson's critique is most valuable. Emerson foregrounds the larger implications of Michaels account of changes in reading protocols - implications that are proven through their own explanatory power or momentum in current politics. Emerson shows the rhetorical construction of this momentum by looking at the poetics of text. The priority of materiality is a product of rhetorical assumptions about the ends of reading and not any theoretical necessity.
This is exactly why Michaels likes de Man. In Michaels' references to de Man - Excuses or Phenomenality and Materiality in Kant, admitting the significant differences between these late essays - texts are shown to present themselves as structures of intention and meaning, sites of aesthetic experience on the part of a cognizing subject, but such texts also reveal under scrutiny a kinetics of meaning-like tropological effects rather than any actual experience or cognition. Texts generate a surplus of such effects which can be described as meaningless insofar as they do not refer back to the phenomenological paradigm of the author as intending subject. De Man typically pushes this insight to the point of what he calls materiality. The meaning-like effects of tropes are nothing but effects, and the ideological and epistemological commitments attached to meaning collapse into the so-called negative knowledge of the failure of ontological or hermeneutic arguments. Along the way, de Man's dealing with texts precisely meets the criteria of the plural and open-ended readerly text proposed by Emerson, but he inevitably leads the reader to an impasse which no reading can resolve. This rigorous process is exactly what qualifies de Man's work as deconstruction, and it is exactly what Michaels likes about de Man: Michaels admires de Man for taking his position as far as it is possible to go. He admires the momentum of de Man's reading and the inevitability of its conclusions. Precisely this allows Michaels to see de Man's views as the result of the underlying shift in textual ontology - as evidence rather than as a critique of this shift - and it is precisely this that allows Michaels to conclude that in the end de Man's position is completely mistaken. For Michaels, de Man and Howe push the limits. Emphasizing the ends and the inevitability of the ends provides the shape of Michaels' historical narrative, and so if reading leads to the materiality of the text then reading must always lead to this point. Howe and de Man, then, do for him what he cannot as this would require seeing his argument as part of the rhetoric of texts and not of the inevitability of history.
What is left out of Michael's teleology of the material, embodied post-historical world, are the mechanisms through which this world is achieved. Emerson's critique insists on the technicality of historical narratives such as Michaels', on the rhetoric required to achieve such a claim about reading. Returning to Emerson's possible over-emphasis on intention, we can see that texts are quasi-intentional beyond and despite any phenomenological or semiotic account. Bernstein's notion of semblance described in the essay of the same name quoted by Emerson, and itself citing without reference Adorno's notion of artwork as semblance or apparition, is precisely this surplus poetics of texts. The very possibility of reading a historical shift in the dynamics of text interpretation takes for granted the irreducibility of aesthetic appearances. Quasi-intentional structures prohibit the too-quick movement from reading to historical conclusions by foregrounding the way readers and conclusions are produced or performed by and from the text.
When Michaels asserts that culture is a primary technology for disarticulating difference from disagreement, of course he means the irreducibility of culture as something one has materially and bodily. But he equally means to target the automatic function of this primary technology. That culture works consistently this way is its technological functioning. More importantly, texts are the underlying mechanism through which such technologies gain their momentum. A similar inevitability and automaticity is at work in Michaels' reading of poverty. For Michaels, institutions are machinic and automatic, with texts as the model and engine. His argument seduces by passing off this automaticity as the stuff of history rather than the rhetorical outcome of reading.
This leads to the interesting status of digital poetry. The machine that performs anyhow beyond all intention or cognition, as de Man put it, continues to run at the core of our beliefs about texts. The interest in a digital poetry, a poetry of the machine, even when such poems may be made with pencil and paper, highlights a shift in this machine. That is, digital poetry, wherever this poetry is found, reflects our intentions to and through texts and exemplifies the poem at the limit of materiality and authorship (it is rife with intention). The digital poem shows quasi-intentionality, shows it with intensity, intensified both in its intentionality and in its (quasi) mediality. Digital poetry shows us our notions of intention, materiality, and authorship. This showing is more radical and more historical than the hidden schema employed by Michaels.


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I had no idea I knew so little about the Geoduck! This video, entitled "Don't Judge a Clam by Its Cover: Geoduck," was produced by the incomparable Liza de Guia, from Food Curated. As you know, I'm a huge fan of Liza's storytelling skills, and was particularly fascinated by this episode. For even more geoduck information, please be sure to read her original article here. Enjoy!
Sunday, August 22, 2010
4 comments:
- Fresh Local and Best said...
This is such a cool and informative segment on geoduck, which I've been seeing show up on sushi menus more often.
- August 22, 2010 at 7:46 PM
"Dirty Jobs" with Mike Roe had a show on the geoduck too.
- August 22, 2010 at 10:41 PM
Why is it pronounced "gooey duck" instead of what its spelling would otherwise suggest? Is it just to emphasize how disgustingly hideous it is?
- August 23, 2010 at 12:08 AM
- Gary said...
What a strange creature!
- December 11, 2010 at 8:26 AM
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The GM firms present themselves as operating out of futuristic laboratories and hi-tech greenhouses in order to provide farmers with innovative crops with valuable new traits. But in reality, all the leading GM firms developed out of the chemical industry and they remain the world's biggest manufacturers of agrochemicals. The leading GM corporations together control nearly 75% of the global pesticide market.
Syngenta, for instance, is not only the world's third largest seed company, it's also the world's second largest agrochemical manufacturer. Monsanto, the world's biggest seed company, is the world's fifth largest agrochemical company. That is why around 80% of GM seeds have been engineered to be resistant to weed killers (herbicides). Monsanto's main GM product is crops resistant to glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup), creating a near-monopoly for Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, which is now off patent.
Having operated for many decades as major chemical corporations, and in the last 20 years additionally as biotechnology companies, the leading GM firms have a significant historical legacy. This makes it possible to examine their records when it comes to issues of public and employee safety and protection, regulatory compliance, customer care, etc.
This is particularly relevant to the regulation of GM crops, as it is almost entirely dependent on trust, with regulators normally basing their assessments of environmental risk and food safety on data from unpublished studies provided to them in confidence by the GM firms that developed the crop.
Below we look at the corporate character and record to date of the major GM firms.
Monsanto: a history
How one of the top 10 US chemical companies used the world's biggest selling pesticide to turn itself into a GM giant in order to try and escape its past.
Monsanto: resources
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How a chemical and pharmaceutical giant with an appalling record of corporate crimes became a key player in the development, commercialization and sale of GM crops.
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That means for 'commuters' like us, we need to fly to somewhere else and then connect with another plane or airline to get the rest of the way – traveling in either direction.
The Jet D'Eau, Geneva's landmark shoots water 140 meters into the air |
What I didn't know about Geneva before going there:
Geneva's most famous clock |
* A walk down Geneva's Rue du Rhone reminds you why Switzerland is known for its watches. Watches and their (breath-taking) prices fill window displays of shops lining this road. Think famous brand name watch and you'll most-likely find it on this street.
* Geneva's Old Town is home to the church's Reformation movement. This year the city it noting the 500th Year Anniversary of the Reformation and the event's calendar is filled with celebrations.
* Geneva is home to the European headquarters of the United Nations.
* So small and compact is this large city, that the airport is only six minutes from the heart of town and the train station is so close to the lake that you can easily walk to many of the hotels that front the lake.
Geneva's Old Town - home to the Reformation Movement 500 years ago |
Back to the Airline Tickets and Gateway Cities for a moment:
A number of you have asked how we get back and forth between Greece and Seattle. The possibilities are endless. New York, London, Paris, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Munich, Dubai and Cairo are among the cities that we could transit when traveling between our two homes, on 'The Hill' in Greece and in the Seattle suburbs.Our choice of departure city usually depends on the best deal on the airline ticket. That's where The Scout comes in. He starts his comparison shopping weeks before our targeted travel dates, using Kayak.com. First thing we learned is that you automatically save money by beginning the round-trip on that side 'of the pond' and not from the U.S. Second is that the departure city can have a significant impact on the cost. And third, be a bit flexible on travel dates.
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(We fly Greece's Aegean Airlines or their code-share partners to and from Athens and our gateway city – usually for less than $200US per ticket). Even with that flight cost added on, it is cheaper than flying from Athens to Seattle. Go figure!
Had we flown Aegean directly to London and caught the long-haul flight, those Premium Economy seats would have cost $500US more PER SEAT than by departing out of Geneva and simply connecting with that same British Air long-haul flight from London. It was a screamin' deal and we got to visit a city that had been on the 'bucket list' for years.
On a clear day, Geneva's colors are spectacular |
Geneva: What was saved was spent
What we saved on airfare we probably will spend on our stays in this picturesque city on the shores of Lake Geneva.You spend Swiss francs quickly but they sure are pretty |
During a stroll on our first afternoon there I wanted a latte and chose one of the cafe's with beautiful outdoor patios in which to drink it. It was lovely, tasted okay and cost $8US. Luckily I'd changed my mind about the ice cream I'd considered having with it as it was listed as $14US a serving. At McDonald's the next morning our 'Happy Meals' – no hash browns – cost $18US. You get the idea. . .
This charcuterie was served gratis with our wine at an Old Town restaurant |
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Bottom Line
In the end, the cost of Geneva was worth it. We are looking forward to our return.. For those who've said you may come visit us in Greece 'some day' keep in mind that flexibility in routing could be a key to savings as well as an introduction to some wonderful new place!That's it for this week. I'll have more Geneva stories this fall. Again, thanks so much for the time you've spent with us. Hope your travels are healthy and happy ones ~
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