January 2012
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Hydra, Blacked Out →
SOPA/PIPA imperil the the type of syncretic and cross-fertilized creative expressions that we find most inspiring. Such as: the art that has flourished through the new media of Youtube, Google Streetview. Such as: cross-border musical flows. Can you imagine Worldtown without the World Wide Web? Without online mixtapes, the international blogosphere, or soundcloud? The anti-circumvention...
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November 2011
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NYT Op-Docs: The Umbrella Man →
On the 48th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Errol Morris explores the story behind the one man seen standing under an open black umbrella at the site.
The Worlds of the Men Who Killed Kennedy
Researching the Kennedy assassination, one comes across strange outliers like Christian David, who in the mid 80s claimed to have been offered the job of eliminating the...
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All in one place: Hydra on OWS
miniBiography and the 99%
“Listening to Storycorp, I consider the human microphone: (a) the emphasis it places on voice, on the word spoken back aloud; (b) Joseph Stiglitz’s awkwardness; (c) how a friend once told me about a couples’ counseling technique (reflection technique?) that requires one partner to repeat what she heard the other say before she may respond. If the human microphone...
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I thought about the letter again when walking alongside the Occupy New Haven...
– Scenes from an Occupation
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October 2011
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In an old joke from the defunct German Democratic Republic, a German worker gets...
– Slavoj Zizek Speaks at Occupy Wall Street
Hydra’s Occupy Wall Street Reading List
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Un mystère américain
J’ai eu l’intuition pour ma part qu’il ne fallait pas s’arrêter au seul Malick, au peu qu’on sait de lui finalement, qu’il fallait remonter le cours de ses influences afin de mieux saisir la portée du film, lequel quoi qu’on en dise, mérite et autorise d’autres lectures que le sempiternel discours sur sa spiritualité aveuglante et son look d’album photos. A la sortie du cinéma, j’ai pensé à...
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September 2011
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August 2011
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Crazy, the power of distraction a man has who is bored, intimidated, or...
– Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes
Saying It Anyway, A Success Story
July 2011
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June 2011
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