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Public Library 1.02

By TF | Published: February 1, 2010
Naomi Klein on how corporate branding has taken over America. Extract from the 10th Anniversary Edition of No Logo examining the branding of everything American – including Barack Obama. Great read. Via The Guardian. Our Boredom, Ourselves. Jennifer Schuesller on how boredom is woven into the very fabric of the literary enterprise. Via The New [...]
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Public Library 20.11

By TF | Published: November 20, 2009
Kabul: City Number One – Part 5 – Intercontinental. Part five of Adam Curtis’s series on Afghanistan expands on the (failed) westernisation of Afghanistan. The Robert Louis Stevenson Website. Includes all RLS’s written works. Michael Wood on Roland Barthes. A retrospective look at the French literary theorist/philospher/semiotician in the context of two new releases by him. [...]
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Public Library 6.11

By TF | Published: November 6, 2009
Kabul: city Number One – Part 4. Adam Curtis’s series on Afghanistan continues. You should be following it if you aren’t already. Borges’s short story, ‘The Book of Sand’ as a hypertext and game. Beckett with Lacan. Slavoj Zizek writes on Beckett’s ‘utter self-emptying of subjectivity’. Dictionary of Sydney. Exciting project that will only continue [...]
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Public Library 15.10

By TF | Published: October 15, 2009
The Lost History of Helmand. Fantastic article by Adam Curtis on the failed modernisation of Afghanistan. Insight into what was, could have been and is today. Via BBC. Tales from the Bin Laden Clan. ‘Wife and son bare secrets of terror kingping.’ I thought we’d done this already… I suppose Osama the enigma will be [...]
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