"The stock market is no longer the common ownership of the means of production: it’s a place where early-stage investors can exit to a group of muppets and high-frequency traders."

Shame

1 1/2 cups dried black eyed eas sorted soaked overnight drained and rinsed
1 3-inch piece kombu
3 tbsp and 2 tsp olive oil
1/2 cup diced onions
1 cup diced green bell pepper
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 tbsp lime juice freshly sqzd
1/2 cup tamari
1 large chipotle chile in adobo sauce
1/4 cup agave nectar
pinch cayenne
1 tsp dried thyme
1/2 pound (1 8oz pckg) tempeh, crumbled

"Deleuze and Guattari refers to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, two French philosophers who wrote a number of works together. The most notable of these is the two volume Capitalism and Schizophrenia, consisting of Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980). Unhappy with the treatment of Franz Kafka’s work by scholars, Deleuze and the Guattari wrote Kafka: Toward a Theory of Minor Literature in order to dismiss the notion that the only two ways to analyze Kafka were to “[put] him in the nursery—by oedipalizing and relating him to mother-father narratives—or by trying to limit him to theological-metaphysical speculation to the detriment of all the political, ethical, and ideological dimensions that run through his work…” [1]. Published in 1975, their book sought to enter Kafka’s works without the unnecessary burden of the type of analysis that relates works to past or existing categories of genre, type, mode, or style. This sort of analysis is related to what Deleuze and Guattari would call the "Major" or dominant literature out of which they see Kafka emerging as a voice of a marginalized, minority people by re-appropriating the major language for his own purposes". They also wrote What is Philosophy? together. Although Capitalism and Schizophrenia is considered a magnum opus for both, they each had distinguished careers independent of each other."

“Yellowstone National Park may be the best place there is to reflect on the fact that we are all pond slime. Every cell in our body acknowledges a deep history, a time when organelles floated free in a world we would have found ­insupportable.”

"A fellow from California who was at one of our performances asked Mac if we knew the origin of the word, then said that in the Gold Rush days in California there was a kind of big barge that worked up and down the coast, and a bit on the inland rivers, that had big D rings on each side for towing. The rings were called 'hogeyes' and the men who worked on the barges were referred to as 'hogeye sailors' or 'hogeye men' or just 'hogeyes'. This was not a complimentary term, since these men were ridiculed as ones who were too cowardly to work on ships that sailed the high seas, but stuck close to shore. Whether 'tis true, we'll never really know. However, it is true that the first line of our "namesake" song, Hogeye Man, says, "Oh the hogeye sailors roll and go when they come down from San Francisco" and that sure sounds right to Mac."

"I am no philosopher, but I seem to be on the side of most writers in opting for secular humanism, despite an uneasy feeling that I am not quite sure about humanism in general. Humans are not my favorite species, but I’m stuck with them."

"The various durations of government around the world are linked to the various durations and productivities of farming that was the prerequisite for the rise of governments. For example, Europe began to acquire highly productive agriculture 9,000 years ago and state government by at least 4,000 years ago, but subequatorial Africa acquired less productive agriculture only between 2,000 and 1,800 years ago and state government even more recently. Those historical differences prove to have huge effects on the modern distribution of wealth."

"For all its innovation, the financial industry of today is less efficient than it was in the age of the railway, according to research by Thomas Philippon at New York University. That is, it charges the rest of society more for financial intermediation than it did 130 years ago. Considering the evidence, regulators could at the very least remove the taxpayer subsidy that has paved the road for banks to become so big."
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/25/jp-morgan-chase-breakup/

She's got balls

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BRos always wins!!

"Since October, anybody in California who commits a new crime that is non-serious, non-violent, and non-sexual (or “non-non-non”) has been sent to a county jail instead of prison. The main difference is that sheriffs and their deputies have much more discretion over how to deal with such offenders than state-prison wardens do.

"Sheriffs can, for example, send troublemakers to mental-health treatment instead of jail. They can “flash-incarcerate” people for just a few hours. They can put them under home surveillance with a GPS monitor strapped to their ankle, or make them do community service and drug rehabilitation. They can refer them to vocational training so they can get jobs.

"A similar change applies to everybody now released from state prison. Before October, all these people were automatically on “parole” (a state term). And about two in three parolees soon ended up back in jail, usually for technical hiccups, such as a missed meeting with a state parole officer. This revolving door of recidivism has now largely stopped, as former prisoners enter “probation” (a county term) and work with a local officer."

''I think I wrote more with my hand than with my brain.''

"The fish pendant, on Dick’s account, began to emit a golden ray of light, and Dick suddenly experienced what he called, with a nod to Plato, anamnesis."

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/philip-k-dick-sci-fi-philosopher-part-2/

"Logos is an important concept that litters the pages of “Exegesis.” It is a word with a wide variety of meaning in ancient Greek, one of which is indeed “word.” It can also mean speech, reason (in Latin, ratio) or giving an account of something. For Heraclitus, to whom Dick frequently refers, logos is the universal law that governs the cosmos of which most human beings are somnolently ignorant. Dick certainly has this latter meaning in mind, but — most important — logos refers to the opening of John’s Gospel, “In the beginning was the word” (logos), where the word becomes flesh in the person of Christ."

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/philip-k-dick-sci-fi-philosopher-part-3/

"We adults idealize childhood because grown-up life seems such a disaster. We forget that being a child — being that powerless — is often its very own disaster."

"The lower forms watch us intently. They give me the creeps."

"Last year, the Oberpfalz cultural curator Erika Eichenseer published a selection of fairytales from Von Schönwerth's collection, calling the book Prinz Roßzwifl. This is local dialect for "scarab beetle". The scarab, also known as the "dung beetle", buries its most valuable possession, its eggs, in dung, which it then rolls into a ball using its back legs. Eichenseer sees this as symbolic for fairytales, which she says hold the most valuable treasure known to man: ancient knowledge and wisdom to do with human development, testing our limits and salvation.

"Eichenseer says the fairytales are not for children alone. "Their main purpose was to help young adults on their path to adulthood, showing them that dangers and challenges can be overcome through virtue, prudence and courage.""

"The racism was sometimes shocking. In one case, in which which a white man and a black man were both near the scene of a teenager's murder, the sheriff said to the two of them: "One of you is going to have to hang for this ...since you're the n-----, you're elected." In another, a black man was wrongfully convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering a child. A couple years later, the real criminal - a white man - struck again, and another child was killed. Again, the police arrested and convicted an innocent black man while the real killer continued to roam free.

"In many cases, police and prosecutors purposely destroyed or hid evidence of the defendant's innocence. In others, the true killer conspired to frame an innocent person, and the police were all too eager to believe an easy story and avoid doing any investigation of their own.

"The U.S. locks up a higher percentage of its people than any other country in the world - 3 million in prison, another 4 million on probation or parole - 1 in 32 in "the system." Our courts like to punish and punish hard, and hate to admit when they're wrong. It's horrible to imagine what it would be like to have to fight to prove your innocence in this system."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57438010/study-2000-convicted-then-exonerated-in-23-years/

"Also, we're getting into the territory of authenticity and identity. There are some fairly old philosophical issues about what confers identity and uniqueness, and these are the principles, quiddity and haecceity. I hadn't even heard of these issues until I started to research into it, and it turns out these obscure terms come from the philosopher Duns Scotus. Quiddity is the invisible properties, the essence shared by members of a group, so that would be the 'dogginess' of all dogs. But the haecceity is the unique property of the individual, so that would be Fido's haecceity or Fido's essence, which makes Fido distinct to another dog, for example."

My man.

"Only if meat were produced at no or little expense to the environment, public health or animal welfare (as, arguably, some of it is), would our decisions about whether to raise and kill animals for food come down to ethics."

"Orwell didn’t think that Dickens should have written different novels; he loved Dickens. But he understood that Dickens bore the ideological marks of his time and place. His class did not see the English social order as tyrannical, worthy of being overthrown. Dickens thought that large contradictions could be tamed through small moments of justice. He believed in the power of changing hearts, and that’s what you believe in, Orwell says, if you “do not wish to endanger the status quo.”"

"One obvious reason for larger breasts, therefore, is to send a signal to prospective mates that they are promising candidates for motherhood."

Yes yes yes

"The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering."

"I realized that one of both the virtues and the problems with SF is that, basically since the Gold Rush times, it has always been a welcoming haven for people seeking to escape something, to reinvent themselves, to be their own person, to make a fortune on the frontier.

"A lot of what you need to know about SF can be explained by the fact that it is a small town, and that it is an industry town. In a place like SF, where you’re going to run into the same five people at Four Barrel every Saturday, where your dating history is likely to intersect with the dating history of 20% of the employees at your next startup, and where everyone around you is a source of investment, press, or general buzz for your next startup, people tend to be reluctant to speak ill of anyone. Which means people can often behave badly with full assurance of an invitation to the BBQ at Golden Gate Park next weekend."

http://trash.davidcole.me/post/17493443246/sci-fi-hi-fi-jim-ray-asks-honest-question-have-you
http://log.scifihifi.com/post/17495184941/david-cole-responds-to-my-previous-post-about-san

http://yfrog.com/z/oc88567145j

"While death and taxes may be only relative certainties in today's economy – failing megabanks neither die nor pay taxes anymore – one thing that was always absolutely certain from the start was that Wall Street was going to sue the living hell out of Washington before the ink was even dry on Dodd-Frank. It took a little while, but the banks very quickly found a tried-and-true method of tying up the reforms in court."

"That's how the swaps market works. It operates completely in the dark. If you're some Podunk town in Texas or Alabama and you need swaps financing, you've got to ask Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley what it costs. There's no exchange where you can compare prices. And modern investment bankers are ethically a notch below your average drug dealer. They will extract from their customer – a town, an airline, a chain of retail stores – whatever they think he'll pay. And that extra cost will be passed on to you by the overcharged customer, in the form of higher taxes, bigger home-heating bills, higher sewer rates or pricier airline tickets. Wall Street will be taking a bite out of you every time you write a check."

NB "municipal-bond offerings, one of the most dependably corrupt businesses in the American economy."

"We grow as much food as we can in San Francisco and distribute it for free at our Free Farm Stand. We act as a gathering place in the Mission to encourage community growth and involvement. This effort revolves mostly around gathering surplus food from neighborhood gardens, various farmer’s markets, community gardens, public and private fruit trees, and hosting a space where this bounty can be shared with all. We also work with Produce to the People who harvests organic fruit from backyard fruit trees and public spaces and brings it to our Free Farm Stand."

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress and working together is success."

"He was a docile, prize-winning schoolboy who wrote “Shit on God” on walls in his home town; a teen-age rebel who mocked small-town conventionality, only to run back to his mother’s farm after each emotional crisis; a would-be anarchist who in one poem called for the downfall of “Emperors / Regiments, colonizers, peoples!” and yet spent his adult life as an energetic capitalist operating out of colonial Africa; a poet who liberated French lyric verse from the late nineteenth century’s starched themes and corseted forms—from, as Paul Valéry put it, “the language of common sense”—and yet who, in his most revolutionary work, admitted to a love of “maudlin pictures, . . . fairytales, children’s storybooks, old operas, inane refrains and artless rhythms.”"

THE RULES OF POETRY

"The Artists Space Bookstore is comprised of publications selected by one hundred artists, writers and thinkers, each asked to select ten titles – in its diversity the inventory plots the depth of knowledge that influences contemporary art production and ideas."

Important intel re locations

Classic Q

Cool mom

“We are people of this generation, bred in modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.

"Although our own technology is destroying old and creating new forms of social organization, men still tolerate meaningless work and idleness."

"Our work is guided by the sense that we may be the last generation in the experiment with living. But we are a minority -- the vast majority of our people regard the temporary equilibriums of our society and world as eternally-functional parts. In this is perhaps the outstanding paradox: we ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is that there is no viable alternative to the present. Beneath the reassuring tones of the politicians, beneath the common opinion that America will "muddle through", beneath the stagnation of those who have closed their minds to the future, is the pervading feeling that there simply are no alternatives, that our times have witnessed the exhaustion not only of Utopias, but of any new departures as well. Feeling the press of complexity upon the emptiness of life, people are fearful of the thought that at any moment things might thrust out of control. They fear change itself, since change might smash whatever invisible framework seems to hold back chaos for them now. For most Americans, all crusades are suspect, threatening. The fact that each individual sees apathy in his fellows perpetuates the common reluctance to organize for change. The dominant institutions are complex enough to blunt the minds of their potential critics, and entrenched enough to swiftly dissipate or entirely repel the energies of protest and reform, thus limiting human expectancies. Then, too, we are a materially improved society, and by our own improvements we seem to have weakened the case for further change.

"Theoretic chaos has replaced the idealistic thinking of old -- and, unable to reconstitute theoretic order, men have condemned idealism itself. Doubt has replaced hopefulness -- and men act out a defeatism that is labeled realistic."

"Men have unrealized potential for self-cultivation, self-direction, self-understanding, and creativity. It is this potential that we regard as crucial and to which we appeal, not to the human potentiality for violence, unreason, and submission to authority. The goal of man and society should be human independence: a concern not with image of popularity but with finding a meaning in life that is personally authentic: a quality of mind not compulsively driven by a sense of powerlessness, nor one which unthinkingly adopts status values, nor one which represses all threats to its habits, but one which has full, spontaneous access to present and past experiences, one which easily unites the fragmented parts of personal history, one which openly faces problems which are troubling and unresolved: one with an intuitive awareness of possibilities, an active sense of curiosity, an ability and willingness to learn.

"This kind of independence does not mean egoistic individualism -- the object is not to have one's way so much as it is to have a way that is one's own. Nor do we deify man -- we merely have faith in his potential.

"Loneliness, estrangement, isolation describe the vast distance between man and man today. These dominant tendencies cannot be overcome by better personnel management, nor by improved gadgets, but only when a love of man overcomes the idolatrous worship of things by man.

THERE ARE NO CONVINCING APOLOGIES>>...
"The mind-set of the Port Huron drafters — in contrast to the members of the Occupy movement — was that the fundamental values espoused by their liberal elders remained valid and that money had not yet corrupted the political system so completely that it was incapable of being reformed."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/sunday-review/the-port-huron-statement-at-50.html?pagewanted=all

"I first encountered Quakerism in college at Haverford, and that planted a few odd seeds, though ones I have to admit proved fertile. I attended Meeting from time-to-time in graduate school. But it was only when I was a young Professor at Temple University teaching political theory (Aristotle and Machiavelli and Hobbes and The Federalist Papers) that I began attending Quaker meeting regularly. That was Germantown Meeting, an old, large Meeting full of interesting people. Eventually I joined Germantown Meeting and became a Quaker. What did I find? Several things. I found that gathering with others in silence was oddly rewarding. I found that the onrushing confusing buzz in my own head could drop away for a while. I found that things that were not clear before Meeting could become unknotted after an hour or more in such a gathering. And I found that even those things that did not grow clear grew at least less troubling. I found a spiritual discipline. Most fundamentally, I found that God speaks to everyone, or at least everyone who will seek to listen. What God has to say is not a one-time revelation, thousands of years ago in a Book set in a particular far-away place. I found I could be in dialogue, even if a difficult dialogue, with a Presence who assured me there is a Truthfulness and a Goodness at the very center of this life."

THAT IS THE OPENING

& via P http://www.thenation.com/article/167079/participatory-democracy-port-huron-statement-occupy-wall-street

"It also helped that Judaism, unlike many strains of Christianity, did not consider poverty particularly ennobling."

1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup raspberry jam

"Joblessness is also associated with some serious illnesses, although the causal links are poorly understood. Studies have found strong links between unemployment and cancer, with unemployed men facing a 25 percent higher risk of dying of the disease. Similarly higher risks have been found for heart disease and psychiatric problems."

Hosting

"A continuation of the race and income maps I made for Chicago, this time for a nonprofit in the Bay Area. As with Chicago, using dots shows demographic transitions between neighborhoods and cities much more clearly than solid colors ever can.

"But with the Bay Area — with its contrast between the sparsely inhabited hills and the dense coasts — avoiding the standard solid-color choropleth map is even more important. Using the same graphics for hills and coasts would give a very distorted idea of how race and poverty are distributed. Instead of a few poor areas floating in a solid-color sea of prosperity, here the relative geographic balance between rich and poor is much more obvious.

"Note again, though, that race is only is only a rough predictor of other demographic characteristics. Much more salient is the close relationship between poverty and education."

"We aim to "live" in the wilderness, rather than "survive" it to get back to civilization.

"The skills we have to offer include: basic skills; fire making and bindings; wild edible and medicinal plants; large animal processing; bow and arrow making; hunting and trapping methods; fishing techniques; rawhide; hide tanning; clothing and moccasin making; stone and bone tools; horse riding, packing and driving; basketry; pottery; shelters; ecology and nature awareness."

http://lithoshop.tumblr.com/post/20491110137/bertha-c-jacques-minding-her-own-business
http://lithoshop.tumblr.com/post/20490740578/joseph-pennell-printing-and-properly-prepared
http://lithoshop.tumblr.com/post/20405722043/letterpress-furniture-mallet-also-for-pressmans
http://lithoshop.tumblr.com/post/20504924071/dont-worry-kid-it-gets-worse
http://lithoshop.tumblr.com/post/20508332091/whenever-i-see-a-press-like-this-i-always-wonder
http://lithoshop.tumblr.com/post/20522464396/my-favorite-image-of-gutenberg-before-he-could
http://lithoshop.tumblr.com/post/20328529163/lithography-great-lets-talk-a-little-theory
http://lithoshop.tumblr.com/post/20869739611/oh-fuck-please-dont-even-look
http://lithoshop.tumblr.com/post/19515186434/pantones-off-set-printing-press-carlstadt-nj
http://lithoshop.tumblr.com/post/22692160912/repoussage-n-1-art-art-or-process-of
http://lithoshop.tumblr.com/post/22735925368/for-christ-sakes-how-fucking-long-is-it-gonna
http://lithoshop.tumblr.com/post/22735925368/for-christ-sakes-how-fucking-long-is-it-gonna
http://lithoshop.tumblr.com/post/23131114296/i-realized-that-my-human-body-my-human-life-was
http://lithoshop.tumblr.com/post/23647422489/because-youre-mine-ill-think-about-walking-the

"Supporters of the food movement have become content to “vote with our dollars” in favor of local and organic alternatives, for small farms and farmers markets. But for all the good they do, these vibrant alternatives have not confronted the system head on. No farmers market places limits on the power of corporate agribusiness. No community sponsored agriculture program interferes with industrial farming’s ability to exert its influence on the way that agriculture is governed. Alternatives build power, but they cannot seize power from the systems that currently hold it." http://civileats.com/2012/05/14/farm-protesters-land-seized-by-uc-berkeley/
http://freefarmstand.org/2012/05/14/gentle-takeovers/

Two 15-ounce cans chickpeas (4 cups), rinsed and drained
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 ½ teaspoons sweet paprika
1 ½ teaspoons smoked paprika (pimenton)
½ teaspoon salt
Zest and juice of half a lemon
1 teaspoon fresh thyme

"The article was written by a 12-member panel that spent three years reviewing the evidence. It concluded that the nation’s safety system for endocrine disruptors is broken."

2 c warm water
4 1/2 tsp yeast
1/2c vegetable oil
4 tbsp olive oil
1/2 c cornmeal
5 1/2 c flour
1/4 c potato flour

"Even with those credentials, it took a little while for the CRP volunteers to win the trust of the students they hoped to represent. After all, weren't would-be lawyers just junior members of "the establishment"? To break the ice with protesters facing discipline, Shaffer put it to them this way: "Look, we're being trained at being adversarial assholes, so if you want us to be adversarial assholes on your behalf, we'd be happy to do that.""

Combats activity-induced asthma, allegedly

Listens to industrial music while he "makes marks" (Baudelaire, Rimbaud)

1 pound fresh poblano chiles (3 large or 4 medium)
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 medium or large white onion, halved and thinly sliced across the grain
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 1/4 pounds mushrooms, sliced (about 6 cups)
Salt to taste
3 to 4 tablespoons chopped epazote or cilantro
12 corn tortillas
2 ounces crumbled Mexican queso fresco or feta (optional)

Gmail is bearable again.

"One point I stress in my book is that there is no such thing as a truly “private” institution, since virtually every American college is supported to a significant degree by public revenues — whether by direct appropriations, or through institutional tax exemption, deductions for donors, indirect support via federal research grants, publicly funded grants and loans to students, and so on. Yet as the chorus of “globalization” grows louder and stronger, awareness of what it means to be an American college seems to become proportionally weaker.

"College always has been, and will continue to be, a battleground for the American soul."

1 large bunch of basil, leaves only, washed and dried
3 medium cloves of garlic
one small handful of raw pine nuts
roughly 3/4 cup Parmesan, loosely packed and freshly grated

"The city fascinates because it is a condensed, emphatic example of the trials of so many American cities in an era of globalization, which has brought with it intensified economic instability and seemingly intractable joblessness. Detroit is also iconic, intimately familiar to generations of Americans who associate R&B music, automobiles, and the modernist skyscraper with urbanity itself, and yet the decline depicted in ruin photos is frightening and at times grotesque. While unique in its scale, however, Detroit’s entrenched infrastructural and economic problems are themselves as American as apple pie, reproduced on varying scales in Newark, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Camden. Detroit, then, isn’t an exception to a general rule of class mobility and meritocracy, the pillars of the so-called “American Dream,” as it’s often seen.

"It’s a clear example of how that term, these days at least, increasingly looks like an optimistic delusion—and maybe it always was."

"Although none of his works has yet been translated into English, Muray is considered one of the most influential thinkers of his generation."

"And In The End, Foresee The End"

"So, after downloading runs (never enough – 63 totalling 174 miles), it’s time to start thinking about making this crazy kind of map. I’m kind of starting from scratch, so it will require some of the more difficult things in the world – maths."

"The first 100 of each letter of John's collection will be released one a week from 1st May 2012 to 1st Oct 2012."