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Naomi Klein about Shockdoctrine

Luca @ July 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet

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EASTERN SICHUAN, CHINA - Monday, May 12, 2008 at 02:28:00 PM at epicenter Magnitude 7.9

Ilari Valbonesi @ May 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet

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Grande Torino

Luca @ May 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The Superga air disaster took place on Wednesday, May 4, 1949, when a plane carrying almost the entire Torino A.C. football squad, popularly known as Il Grande Torino, crashed into the hill of Superga near Turin killing all 31 aboard including 18 players, club officials, journalists accompanying the team, and the plane’s crew. The team […]

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On Digital Action. the Reenactment of Joseph Beuys’ 7000 Oaks (Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG)

Ilari Valbonesi @ January 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Along with Beuys Everybody is an Artist maxim was born the performance pieces. Embodied art, which contributed to create a sort of semi-mythological persona bound between showman and shaman, audacity and megalomania. Embodied reality: in 1979 he was one of the five hundred signatories who founded the German Green Party.
Beuys’s project 7000 Eichen […]

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Zizek on “Children of Men”

Luca @ December 16, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Children of Men is a 2006 dystopian science fiction film co-written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. It was loosely adapted from P.D. James’ 1992 novel The Children of Men by Cuarón and Timothy J. Sexton with help from David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby. It stars Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Chiwetel Ejiofor […]

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Photoclima

Luca @ November 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Photoclima, a new book lauched by Greenpeace, presents images of some of Spain’s most emblematic places have been altered to show what they could look like if action is not taken to tackle climate change. It’s realized by Pedro Armestre and Mario Gómez and presented by the Guardian.

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Shock Doctrine

Luca @ November 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Naomi Klein released this year her new 4 years research titled “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” that destruct the myth of “free market” democracy. It all started from a bunch of guys called the Chicago Boys, headed by Milton Friedman, that experimented their ultraliberist process of social and economic engineering. A process […]

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Burnt Out California

Ilari Valbonesi @ October 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Shifting flame have burned across more than 1,550 square kilometres, killing at least 12 people, destroying more than 2,000 homes and prompting the biggest evacuation from north of Los Angeles, through San Diego to the Mexican border. More than 60 people have been injured, many of them firefighters. 500,000 people forced to flee in California […]

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