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Five Poems

steven_dube1Humbert Humbert reads Lolita in the park
Everyone is open to everything
Young girls turn around in their iPods
Mario in the shadows lands a power up

The celebrities come and go as they like
In the city of breast feeding and dykes

Shakespeare’s in the alley wasting time
That’s as close as he comes to immortality
Wasting his and wasting mine

By Steven Dube.

The Raconteur against Recuperation

Surfing the present economic pandemonium, Žižek has attained a Malkovich-like ubiquity as the antagonist to those who would contend that time has been called on history. At the slightest hint of Fukuyamist thinking he’s there, describing hitherto-unimagined antitheses to what had been regarded by too many as history’s definitive coda and revealing the poster boys of liberalism as Lex Lutheran bad guys who deploy images of post-political utopias in pursuit of private financial interests. Now, though, Žižek himself proclaims the end, or an end.

Joe Kennedy on Slavoj Žižek’s‘s Living in the End Times.

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This week’s visuals: Judging people by their covers on AbeBooks & If Covers Could Talk [via] & Vernacular typography polaroids set [via] & Joanna Neborsky‘s Illustrated Three-Line Novels: F élix F én éon & fascismo abbandonato, the (consciously) neglected ruins of Italian fascist architecture [via] & A progression of how color was to be organised […]