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LEVIATHAN: The end of history has arrived and it is in post-Soviet Russia

By Lauren Carroll Harris Source: Adbusters Within contemporary Russian film, it seems there is an ability to make the grandest statements from the smallest stories. From the insides of tiny flats, dying towns and treeless bays, directors like Andrey Zvyagintsev … Continue reading

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Two for Tuesday

Saul Williams and DJ Spooky Jurassic 5

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Rope-a-Dope

By Rodney Swearengin Source: Adbusters During the second round of the 1974 epic boxing match billed as the Rumble in the Jungle, Mohammad Ali leaned extraordinarily far back upon the ropes as George Foreman relentlessly bludgeoned Ali’s body and arms. … Continue reading

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Another World is Possible

From the Spanish Civil War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, anarchism pushes for a new social order By Tommaso Segantini Source: Adbusters The Spanish Civil War that occurred between 1936-1939 is always remembered as the fight between the … Continue reading

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We wink to them, Good Night!

By The Raqs Media Collective Source: Adbusters For the past few decades, globally, many well-meaning but demoralized people, especially artists and intellectuals, but also activists, have been losing sleep. They suffer from a peculiarly debilitating activist insomnia consisting of relentless … Continue reading

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Life in the Algorithm

By Douglas Haddow Source: Adbusters The searches we make, the news we read, the dates we go on, the advertisements we see, the products we buy and the music we listen to. The stock market. The surveillance society. The police … Continue reading

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Franco Berardi on the Digital Colonization of Human Experience

By Franco Berardi Source: Adbusters The Spanish colonization of Mesoamerica was essentially a process of symbolic and cultural submission. The “superiority” 
of the colonizers lay on the operational effectiveness of their technical production. The colonization destroyed the cultural environment in … Continue reading

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DATAcide: The Total Annihilation of Life as We Know It

By Douglas Haddow Source: Adbusters “So tell me, why did you leave your last job?” he asks. The first thing I remember about the internet was the noise. That screeching howl of static blips signifying that you were, at last, … Continue reading

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