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Briefly in English » Degrowth Finland
The interdisciplinary conference is targeted at academics, activists and  experts working in the fields of economy, politics, social welfare and environment but it is aimed also at the broader public and the media. The  programme of the conference is designed to enable discussion  between keynote speakers, politicians, activists and experts and it aims to make the concept of degrowth more widely known in Finland. The conference is free of charge and we expect audience of around 500 people. Conference languages are English, Finnish and French and a translation from French to English will be organised.

Mission
The Culture Laboratory Collective comprises a diverse group of artists working loosely around the question of socialcohesion within the context of aesthetic fragmentation. While focusing collectively on a synthetically established social identity the work presented paradoxically strives to break free of group-think aesthetics in favor of the individual voice, the point of dissonance opposing the attempt at collaborative cohesion. Retaining a focus on craft and the object, Culture Laboratory Collective operates as an ongoing investigation in media interchangeability and aesthetic fluidity.

The Strange Tale of Solarcon-6 | Features | Fortean Times
Philip K Dick's FBI file and the bizarre story of a neo-Nazi plot to start a Third World War

The making of Glenn Beck - Glenn Beck - Salon.com
A lengthy profile of Beck.

The Best Magazine Articles Ever
Suggestions of the best magazine articles ever.

 
latest shared (greader) Eating a Bhut Jolokia

In Which You Begin To Grasp His Unique Pain

filmbrain: Jean-Luc Godard’s 1995 letter to the NYFCC....

LeBron Watch, Day 50: What ESPN Should Have Asked LeBron James [LeBron James]

Cavs Owner Channels Crazy Person: "Some People Think They Should Go To Heaven But NOT Have To Die To Get There" [Free Fucking Agency]

Keyboard Drum Demonstration


There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing…

Why Has England Been So Bad?

David Foster Wallace on iPhone 4's FaceTime

Outrage revisited: Milton Keynes

How do you pronounce Zooey?

Recent Acquisitions

Three Sons of God walk into the loony bin...

The Tory/Lib-Dem Government endorses actual change

In Which It Is The Gothic Architecture That Impressed Us The Most

Should the pope resign?

Cityscape made of staples

David Livingston’s Big Dick Series

Shark Tea Infuser

Making photos with a laptop screen

 
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recent listens
Thanks be to internet downloads .... Eat Skull 'Wild and Inside' Clues s/t Au Revoir Simone 'Still Night, Still Light' Ariel Pink greatest hits Deerhunter 'Microcastle'
15 April
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14 April
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"And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, with a phantom dogging its own heels..." - Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 2, Ch. 10
07 April
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What the fuck is up with "milder" green Tabasco? The last time I bought Tabasco I seem to remember the green being hotter. Did they fucking wuss this shit out or was I imagining it? This stuff tastes too citrusy. It's BULLSHIT.
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'Oh, sweet sweet manna, who knew Heaven looked like Italy ....'
04 April
03 April
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"Protesters play a giant game of Monopoly outside the London Stock Exchange in the City of London, as world leaders from the Group of 20 countries gather for a Summit at the ExCel centre, Thursday, April 2, 2009." - from daylife.com ;; AP, please don't sue me for reposting this;;;, I'm not Shepard Fairey.
LAST NIGHT'S DREAM
I was standing in an all-white suit with a cheap white guitar, playing the guitar part to 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' in an empty garage. Then I walked out onto a balcony and saw this guy Stephen coming towards me (who in real life I was giving Ruby on Rails lessons to before he sacked me because I wouldn't help him cheat on a job application). He told me that he needed to write a letter to his church pastor, and he would pay me €20 if I did. I wrote the letter, which urged the pastor to check out Captain Beefheart's Safe As Milk album. Just before printing the letter I edited it to say Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band.
I love Internet petitions
but I actually filled this one out, since it's Howard Dean asking me to and I think he's the best thing about the Democratic party. Under special message to my senators and reps I put: Specter, you bastard, if you don't switch parties your career is over anyway so why not take this opportunity to end up in heaven instead of hell?
01 April
Perec RCF on the way
"The Spring Review of Contemporary Fiction is a special issue on Georges Perec, updating our previous Perec issue, with an updated introduction by David Bellos and including a never-before-published Perec radio play."
31 March
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30 March
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You haven't really known Alan Arkin til you've seen this.
Aggregate feed fixed
The Icewhistle aggregate feed is now live again and combines content from this with the main icewhistle.com.
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Teaches you how to tune a snare drum, from 'Complicated Drumming Techniques by Jens Hannemann'
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29 March
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LAST NIGHT'S DREAM
I worked at my undergraduate University in cloning research, and my friend Adam and I really wanted to clone this one other professor. We heard a rumour that he had collected his sperm into a baby bottle and buried it somewhere on the University grounds, 20 years earlier, but everyone was afraid to ask him about it. We used some occult ouija-board technique to discover where it was buried (under a bush in front of the student union) and dug it up. It was still warm. Before we could do our genetic research, we had to test the sperm sample at a dinner party, by hiding it amongst the food. Not in a disgusting way where people would eat it, but we had to put the baby bottle on the table, and strangely no one could see it even though they were looking right at it.
In the second part of the dream I was in the room my mother uses for her sewing work and I somehow knew that there was a door in the ceiling that had been plastered over.
Photo
credits: mom
28 March
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from 'Diabolik' (Mario Bava, Italy/France, 1968)
27 March