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Last week, the LA Times banned the phrase resistance fighters to describe anti-American forces in Iraq, saying the term romanticizes the "insurgents" and "guerrillas" (editorially approved terms) and evokes World War II-era heroism.
This morning, Oliver and I both received this link, from completely different sources, for The Meatrix, an effective piece of agitprop, which demonstrates that Resistance, as a narrative concept, is indeed still romantic, and Resistance as a social practice is alive, funny, and thriving on all fronts.
posted at 11/10/2003 11:41:00 AM
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As will be gathered
from these notes of mine,
I am the sort of person
who approves
of what others abhor
and detests
the things they like.
—Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book
circa 1000 AD
Clearly,
if Sei Shonagon had had access
to the Internet,
she would have had a weblog
instead of a Pillowbook.
—Ruth Ozeki, Weblog
circa 2000 AD
It starts with the earth. How can it not? Imagine the planet like a split
peach, whose pit forms the core, whose flesh its mantle, and whose fuzzy skin
its crust - no, that doesn't do justice to the crust, which is, after all, where
all of life takes place.
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