[OccupyComms] [OccupyLondon] Recommended :)

[Mark Barrett]

I love Pankaj Mishra's works and can't recommend highly enough all his
books and articles, including especially his latest two Age of Anger and
>From the Ruins of Empire. Here is an article by him about today's world
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/opinion/america-from-exceptionalism-to-nihilism.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

http://www.pankajmishra.com/books/

On 11 May 2017 at 07:12, Mark Barrett <marknbarrett at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the Zizek links Peter (see below)
>
> A couple of others to share
> 1) GLOBAL DATA DICTATORS
> It has to be understood in terms of a military contractor using military
> strategies on a civilian population. Us. David Miller, a professor of
> sociology at Bath University and an authority in psyops and propaganda,
> says it is “an extraordinary scandal that this should be anywhere near a
> democracy. It should be clear to voters where information is coming from,
> and if it’s not transparent or open where it’s coming from, it raises the
> question of whether we are actually living in a democracy or not.”
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great
> -british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy
>
> 2) Channelling W. Cobbett (in England at least)
> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/08/vince-
> cable-alliances-liberal-democrat-mp-labour
>
> On 9 May 2017 at 21:05, P wrote:
>
>> +1 Mark - I think Zizek is genuinely enlightening as well as
>> entertaining, and has a lot to say to the floundering left today. Apart
>> from his books, I'd recommend a lot of his stuff on YT, these for example:
>>
>> HOW TO REBEL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCePcSouBOc
>>
>> EVENT WITH VAROUFAKIS & ASSANGE: https://www.youtube.c
>> om/watch?v=yjxAArOkoA0&t=1193s
>>
>> ON MIGRATION, BORDERS ETC WITH V.FAVOURABLE MENTION OF OCCUPY:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj24WQbTI4o&t=2702s
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5 May 2017 at 05:56, Mark Barrett <occupylondon at lists.riseup.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Zizek on Modern World Today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj24WQbTI4o
>>>> Radio 4 About The Invention of America
>>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08npnhd#play
>>>> Radio 4 Hacking the Unconscious / About Advertising
>>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08nl6c1
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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