For Immortal Technique, his unique status as an independent musician with no corporate bosses means he can speak freely, and in this episode, he does exactly that, weighing in on Gaza, the military-industrial complex, and the hip-hop industry.
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As part of the annual fundraiser I promised to share some of the chapters of my book “The Construction of Reality.” At $6,200, we have the first four chapters (originally it was 5, but I’ve done some editing and combined two), “The Introduction”, “The Social Facts Which Rule Us”, “Being Aware”, and “Human Alone.”
If we make $8,350 we’ll have:
5. Identity and Identification (how we expand our bodies beyond our physical selves)
6. The Ritual (how we create identification)
7. Interaction ritual (how daily life creates identification and personality)
Anne Carson’s writing does not concern itself with the question of genre, though it’s probably most accurate to think of her as a poet. Frequently she draws her materials from the distant past, often taking classical literature as a starting point. She does not derive from these sources so much as denature them, reimagine something so simultaneously different and indebted, that it can only be called new. Not only in the telling but in the shape, the formal properties. This is how tradition works in literature, by alchemical transmutation. The voice in Carson’s poems is not old or old-fashioned in the least, but neither is it contemporary, exactly; it must speak from behind a mask, must draw its truth from the credit its fiction bestows, must speak in a disembodied-seeming, or detached, voice. Oddly timeless, probably the air of myth never far in her lines. And when I asked Carson why she’s drawn to working from behind a mask, she answered, “Does anyone really like their own face?”
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Are you a middle-aged divorcé who’s spent one too many silent nights stuck inside his condo near the highway? Have days seemed less merry and bright since your spouse left to be with Zeth, the tantric yoga instructor with piercing blue eyes and a collection of beaded anklets? Then this holiday wrapping guide is just for you.
While Congress weighs sending more aid to both countries, a new inspector general report details oversight issues and waste within the U.S. military.
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Republicans understand that America loves celebrities. Democrats need funny and famous people running for office.
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