Archive for July, 2007
Globalisation can be analytically viewed as the era when rent extraction, inevitably relying on PCA, has become the predominant means of extraction of surplus by large capital, which is global. I had suggested that global capital not only extracts rent through acquisition of property rights over land and other natural resources, but it also extracts […]
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Tags: exchange value, marx, pranab basu, theory of value, use value
in continuation…
i was planning to upload two favourite pieces of cartoon for some time now… there they go… in continuation of the mood set in by the previous post… both these cartoon are wonderful illustrations of pretty heavy-duty theories – the arbitrariness of signifier/signified and the construction of the ‘uncanny’/’other’… but does that in a delightfully […]
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Tags: binaries, monster, rene magritte, this is not a pipe
for some time now, i have been in love with gloria steinem in general and with this essay titled “if men could menstruate” in particular… and just discovered that the essay is available online! here is the link…
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Tags: feminism, gloria steinem
racoon/dream and hobbes…
: hey! : hey! : u a dreamer? : yeah : havnt seen too many around lately… thing been tough lately for dreamers… they say dreaming is dead… no one does it anymore… its not dead its just hav been forgotten… removed from our language… nobody teaches it, nobody knows it exists… the dreamers is […]
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Tags: calvin, dream, hobbes, irony, racoon, waking life
is hobbes bi-curious?
i was going thru some calvin and hobbes strips… fueled by serious velapanthy… and lo! is hobbes bi-curious? well he clearly hav a thing for susie… lol… see this… and ummm, can u see what i see in this strip? well before u get ur fingrs on keyboard, plzzzz, dont tell me hobbes is innocent […]
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Tags: hobbes, queer
wow! me got a helluva character!
me pretty ecstatic reading abt ppl wid whom i share characteristic traits… constantine, death, jack sparrow, vincent vega, dwight and nancy… am i supposed to freak out? is it okie if i dont? 😛 btw i am tweety too… i tink i taw tupid tuizzes… i did i did… i did taw tupid tuizzes… lol […]
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Tags: character
a series of further character quizzes i went for out of serious velapanthy… check out the last two results, both the same… tis interesting to say the least… that constantine one is interesting too… and dont miss the sin city results ; ) Which Harry Potter Kid Are You? Which Gritty No Nonsense Comic Book […]
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Tags: character
lol lol lol… read this… surviving a tornado with a post-structuralist
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Tags: post-structuralism
this post was brewing in my mind, in context of recent discussions i had wid ths frnd, a document written by her that i commented upon a month back, an old letter (dated 21st march 06) and post in her blog… it was aided by the fact that i was ill for last 3 days and it was raining all the time, and i cudnt go out, and i am very disturbed by the things happening in jnu and abt lotsa other things…
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Tags: deconstruction, development, genealogy, jnu, minimum wage, praxis, theory
which character am i?
i am pretty amused by all this ‘which … character are you?’ quizzes u get all over net… so i took some of them… very interesting results… and am totally at loss in understanding which character am i… well the whole exercise is based on the weak premise that i might be like one of […]
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Tags: captain jack sparrow, character
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