<div dir="ltr">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 <div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/opinion/america-from-exceptionalism-to-nihilism.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/opinion/america-from-exceptionalism-to-nihilism.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.pankajmishra.com/books/">http://www.pankajmishra.com/books/</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 May 2017 at 07:12, Mark Barrett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marknbarrett@googlemail.com" target="_blank">marknbarrett@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"guardian text egyptian web",georgia,serif;font-size:medium">Thanks for the Zizek links Peter (see below)</span><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"guardian text egyptian web",georgia,serif;font-size:medium"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"guardian text egyptian web",georgia,serif;font-size:medium">A couple of others to share</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"guardian text egyptian web",georgia,serif;font-size:medium">1) GLOBAL DATA DICTATORS </span><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"guardian text egyptian web",georgia,serif;font-size:medium">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.”</span><div><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/te<wbr>chnology/2017/may/07/the-great<wbr>-british-brexit-robbery-hijack<wbr>ed-democracy</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div>2) Channelling W. Cobbett (in England at least)</div><div><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/08/vince-cable-alliances-liberal-democrat-mp-labour" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/co<wbr>mmentisfree/2017/may/08/vince-<wbr>cable-alliances-liberal-democr<wbr>at-mp-labour</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On 9 May 2017 at 21:05, P wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">+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:</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">HOW TO REBEL: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCePcSouBOc" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com<wbr>/watch?v=aCePcSouBOc</a><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">EVENT WITH VAROUFAKIS & ASSANGE: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjxAArOkoA0&t=1193s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.c<wbr>om/watch?v=yjxAArOkoA0&t=1193s</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">ON MIGRATION, BORDERS ETC WITH V.FAVOURABLE MENTION OF OCCUPY: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj24WQbTI4o&t=2702s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=kj24WQbTI4o&t=2702s</a>  </span></div></div></span><div class="m_550796536208451583gmail-m_8502521365917655740gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="m_550796536208451583gmail-m_8502521365917655740gmail-h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div><div class="m_550796536208451583gmail-m_8502521365917655740gmail-m_4099303951846400269HOEnZb"><div class="m_550796536208451583gmail-m_8502521365917655740gmail-m_4099303951846400269h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 May 2017 at 05:56, Mark Barrett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:occupylondon@lists.riseup.net" target="_blank">occupylondon@lists.riseup.net</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Zizek on Modern World Today <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj24WQbTI4o" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=kj24WQbTI4o</a><br><div>Radio 4 About The Invention of America</div><div><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08npnhd#play" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme<wbr>s/b08npnhd#play</a></div><div>Radio 4 Hacking the Unconscious / About Advertising <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08nl6c1" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme<wbr>s/b08nl6c1</a></div></div>
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