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Month: March 2013
Markéta Luskacová, Woman in a Cat Mask
Why I would go to jail for my journalistic beliefs
Why I would go to jail for my journalistic beliefs. Kostas Vaxevanis has a great definition of journalism and a journalist’s ideal point of view. Not objective, but decent. I like it!
Journalism is often either invested with magic powers or blamed for all that is wrong in the world. Both positions are wrong. Journalism is the way, lonely most of the times, of truth. Often colleagues discuss journalistic objectivity as a mausoleum where we kneel down. There is no objectivity. What matters is the decency of our subjectivity: how decent, honest and professional we stay in a world where everything is relative. How determined we are to fight against set-ups in this world of overloaded information.
It is often said: “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want to print. Everything else is public relations.” This has to be done with respect for human rights and people’s dignity. Nevertheless it has to be done.
BOMB Magazine: Rebecca Solnit by Astra Taylor
Past talks at Webstock.
Collecting some talks to watch later:
* danah boyd
* Lauren Beukes
* Merlin Mann
* Annalee Newitz
* Nicole Sullivan
* Bruce Sterling
* Biella Coleman
ACM Classic: Reflections on Trusting Trust
ACM Classic: Reflections on Trusting Trust. Ken Thompson’s acceptance speech for his Turing award, where he introduced a major idea in computer security. In an award speech.
Sleight | Coffee House Press
A daring novel about families, artistic responsibility, and tragedy.
The Glass Bead Game meets Black Swan.
Sisters Lark and Clef have spent their lives honing their bodies for sleight, an interdisciplinary art form that combines elements of dance, architecture, acrobatics, and spoken word. After being estranged for several years, the sisters are reunited by a deceptive and ambitious sleight troupe director named West who needs the sisters’ opposing approaches to the form— Lark is tormented and fragile, frightened by the art she is compelled to make; Clef is driven to excel.
But when a disturbing mass murder makes national headlines, West seizes on the event as inspiration for his new performance, one that threatens to destroy the very artists performing it.
In language that is at once unsettling and hypnotic, Sleight explores ideas of performance, gender, and family to ask the question: what is the role of art in the face of unthinkable tragedy?
Mindblowing SF by Women and People of Color
50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read
50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read by China Mieville.
I recommend Mieville’s recommendations because he is himself a fantastic science fiction author. There is a fantastic interview with him at the website of the International Socialist Review. He is the author of such fantastic works as The City & the City, Kraken and his new book that I’m holding in my hand in eager anticipation, Embassytown. Enjoy!
“Fantastic!”