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[- PLAYING DISSENT
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By PipShea, Section whatever...
Posted on Sun May 4th, 2003 at 05:27:22 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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The computer game `Escape from Woomera', has caused a wee feeding frenzy over the past week, as Australia's immigration minister, Philip Ruddock, discovered the game's development funding has come from his own government's purse. The Australia Council for the Arts has thrown $25,000 at the development of a 3D adventure game, that invites gamers to assume the character of, and `live' through the experiences of a modern day refugee.
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[- On Convenience
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By marcbohlen, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Fri May 2nd, 2003 at 02:21:41 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Information junkies: This is for you. You, as I have been indulging in up to the minute news coverage for too long. Lust to know what just happened - somewhere.
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[- Sleep-Out
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By katrienjacobs, Section whatever...
Posted on Fri May 2nd, 2003 at 10:17:20 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Even though I am new to weblogging I sense its power to generate a kind of intellectual freshness. I am an academic, writer, performer and based in the USA. I have been experimenting with writing styles and performative modes, sometimes in collaboration with my students, and notice that the web can generate unusually sharp ideas and conversations in very short amounts of time. It has been daunting for me to observe the clash between academic quality and other qualities of the mind.
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[- Whose baby do you want to have?
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By CarolineKoebel, Section review-a-rama
Posted on Thu May 1st, 2003 at 07:33:19 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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I WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABY
calls for peace-minded people in multiple lands to "have babies" with "fathers" of their choosing. The "mother's labor" entails first deciding the father & then detailing the reasons behind her decision. Ideally, BABY de-rigidifies biology, gender, & temporal & spatial context; in this serious play mothers & fathers can be anybody anywhere. BABY holds a conceptual dirty diaper under the nose of The-Family-as-aggression-machine.
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[- Dark Matter and the Counter-Public Sphere
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By gregory sholette, Section editors' corner
Posted on Thu May 1st, 2003 at 11:50:28 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Until very recently, such things as home made crafts, amateur photography (and pornography), self-published newsletters, fan-zines, underground music and comics as well as non-professional collecting practices have had little impact beyond their immediate community of producers and admirers.
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[- Perseverance ?
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By jennyperlin, Section question corner
Posted on Thu May 1st, 2003 at 09:15:30 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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How does the cycle of work, success, depression, and back to work, continue to manifest itself in the US today? I recently finished a 16mm film, Perseverance & How to Develop It, which seeks to link issues of the growth of industry in the early 20th century, and how this relied on self-help books to instill a drive for success in young workers.
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[- Privacy
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By TreborScholz, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Tue Apr 22nd, 2003 at 01:43:54 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Today I received an e.mail that alarmed many of my friends. There it says that "four major credit bureaus in the US will be allowed, starting July 1, to release your credit info, mailing addresses, phone numbers, etc., to anyone who requests it." The author of the e.mail then asks us to call a number to voice our discontent. There are many more forms of productive discontent in relation to the invasion of privacy starting with the web initiative Boycottdelta.org that points to the fact that Delta Airlines introduces intrusive background checks including credit checks for everybody boarding their planes in certain airports.
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[- Does anyone actually want to be a "cultural worker"?
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By Aileen, Section question corner
Posted on Tue Apr 15th, 2003 at 05:11:22 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Does anyone dream of becoming a cultural worker when they grow up? I have met future computer game programmers, future web designers, future special effects experts, even a future DVD menu designer, but I have yet to meet a kid who wants to be a cultural worker someday. Maybe they just don't know about that possibility yet? Or maybe I just know smart kids.
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