I am getting up earlier, before 6AM. The sun is coming up earlier, before 6AM. The cat and the dog are chasing each other about the house making a racket. They are not about to let me stay in bed. Time to go out. Time for me to get up. Tomorrow I take off. Got the truck all packed. Be back in July I said. Well maybe. No sooner than that anyway.
Stars sling shot / round the center / at millions of miles per // In rest homes beds, patients / hang on / as if to love – Rae Armantrout – Versed, 2000 p25
People lie, They stand up right there on TV and they lie. They lie to you and me. They lie in front of the kids. They lie in church. They will lie to their dog. They lie right there on TV; is there nothing sacred anymore?
The fact [is] that we are no longer excluded. We are no longer excluded, not because of racism, sexism, and class differences have come to an end. They manifestly have not. Rather, we are no longer excluded because…because there is no longer any culture to be excluded from. That is to say, the word “Culture” no longer names a metadiscursive project – Bill Readings – The University in Ruins, 1996 p103
Bureaucratic rationales are not reasoned arguments but take as given unsubstantiated propositions backed up only by the authority of the bureaucracy itself – bureaucracies are self-referential. Bureacrates are the paragon of excellence.
There is… not much evidence to real ‘learning’ taking place at most postsecondary institutions, if by that we mean the process by which a student is motivated to participate in, even challenge, established intellectual authority – Stanley Aronowitz – The Knowledge Factory, 2000 p143
The big blond climbs up
Into a black SUV clutching
A latte and talking
On a cellphone
How much work does it
Take to arrest
This middle-age spread
Two little Jon Bennet Ramseys
To dress, the real-estate
Game was supposed to have
Been such easy money but then came
The turndown and one finds
Oneself struggling just
To make ends meets let alone
To dream and be
All that one can be
But still one must try
One must keep on keeping on
Mustent one?
Get a latte and head for the gym
The institution doesn’t need another hero. There are no heros in bureaucracy – Bill Readings – The University in Ruins, 1996 p45
Two thirds of the world’s 5 billion mobile phone subscribers are in the developing world
Under globalization the state does not disappear; it simply becomes more and more managerial, increasingly incapable of imposing its ideological will – Bill Readings – The University in Ruins, 1996 p47
For each 10% increase in mobile phone usage there is a 0.6% boost in GDP for a developing country
Rather than being under national political control, the economy is more and more the concern of transnational enities who transfer capital in search of profit without regard to national boundaries. The erstwhile all-powerful state is reduced to becoming a bueraucratic appaaratus of management – Bill Readings – The University in Ruins, 1996 p49
Natural gas produced by hydraulic fracturing as it turns out produces as much pollution and contributes at least as much and maybe more to global warming than does an equalivent quantity of coal. This is largely due to the amount of methane released during production. Enough emissions are released to negate the carbon advantage that gas has over coal and oil when they are burned.
Every unit represents an implied measurement… Behind every real-world number, there is a measurement – Charles Seife – Proofiness, 2010 p10
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