The defining problem in the search for ET.
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Early scientists didn’t know it, but we do now: The void in the universe is alive.
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Researchers discover that to sharpen its control over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals—not the signals themselves.
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Here is a clip song from a live stream show we did on our YouTube Channel.
Variation witch (Live in studio)
This is one of the songs from an hour-long set list we played showcasing songs from our Rom-Comm Mixtape, Spaghetti Mid-Western EP, and some of our recent singles.
One of the singles we played was this one here called "Variation witch".
You can watch the full video of the show here - LORENZO'S MUSIC LIVE IN STUDIO PERFORMANCE - DEC 14, 2022
One question for J.D. Haltigan, an assistant professor of child and youth mental health at the University of Toronto.
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Marta Russell (1951-2013), the US based writer, activist and leading critical thinker, argued that disability was not a medical condition or impairment, but a ‘socially created category derived from labor relations, a product of the exploitative economic structure of capitalist society’. Disabled bodies are useful only to the extent that they create value. Capitalist social norms both demarcate who is and is not disabled in contemporary society, and at the same time oppress the disabled body. It is productivity and profits that dictate restrictions on the disabled, as well as what limited adjustments may be facilitated for the disabled to better ‘fit’ social structures. Disabled bodies are viewed as a problem. In relation to work, Connor and Coughlin argue that they are often an ‘inevitable part of the “surplus” population, not quite fully human, unable to participate in society, at best a burden and at worst a drain’.
One of the many things we can learn from the recent elections in the United States is that the socialist revival which began there a few years ago, spearheaded first by Bernie Sanders in the Senate and then by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) in the House, has by no means run out of steam. The small but energetic Democratic Socialists of America contingent within the House Democrats, and in roles within the states and communities, has not gone away. Sanders and AOC continue to be very vocal and visible in political debate and action from their socialist perspectives. The widely anticipated Republican wave not only failed to sweep away mainstream Democrats; it also failed to dislodge the socialists.
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For the Race, Place & Critical Theory Reading Group, convened by Dallas Rogers, my role was to act as a reader of the final main chapter and coda of Abdoumaliq Simone’s The Surrounds: Urban Life within and Beyond Capture. Here is my write up of that reading.
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So here we are. We are surrounded.
In the Coda to Abdoumaliq Simone’s book The Surrounds comes the definition of the surrounds as ‘a space of exception’, or as ‘a shape-shifting matrix of spaces, times, and practices that exist right now within the turbulent processes of contemporary urbanisation’. Earlier in the text, instead of envisioning urbanism as the unfolding of definitive forces of value capture, asset creation, and resource extraction, he defines the surrounds as ‘a liminal interstice in between multiple, diverging trajectories of urbanisation that are always in the process of being sutured, more or less’, but always in an unsettled relation.
What are the major themes in the final main chapter of the book and how has “doing time” with this text been?
The confusion about the term ‘imperialism’ can be resolved upon recognising that the term was originally popularised to explain warfare, but not national exploitation, whereas the subsequent evolution of the term sought to explain national exploitation, but not warfare. Therefore, the term ‘imperialism’ must provide an answer to the question, how do relations of national exploitation create the long-term conditions for warfare?
My PhD thesis, Imperialism: How Declining Currency Hegemony Leads to War, argues that the Indian Political Economy (PE) tradition provides useful insights to answer this question
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