Death Squad Summer Camp 2005!

Billmon does a nice job of referencing this heinous new development… we anticipated this as soon as we heard Negroponte was the new “ambassador” to Iraq, and made this back cover to the new Processed World . Concentration camps, death squads, and our pleasant lives go on as though nothing’s wrong…

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Haiti

Just finished reading the 700-page third volume of Madison Smartt Bell’s remarkable trilogy of the Haitian Revolution The Stone That the Builder Refused. The two previous volumes, All Soul’s Rising and Master of the Crossroads gripped me a couple of years ago, and I was terribly excited to get my hands on this third volume. […]

Network Culture

Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age by Tiziana Terranova (from Pluto Press, hence the English spellings below) is one of the most challenging books I’ve read in the past couple of years. Terranova ranges across some very dense theory and puts it together with fresh thinking about our rapidly mutating world. I cannot say […]