• 50 minutes with Žižek

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    We’re hooked (thanks David). This guy is interesting if not anything else. While we are busy booking his tomes from play.com we will continue our vlogging trend with a 50 minute clip with Slavoj Zizek from a Dutch programme called backlight. Find a 50 minute break (lunch?) sit back, listen and react. Facebook Comments Box

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  • Scatology & Ideology

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    So here it is. Flagged originally by DF on facebook I couldn’t resist posting this short lecture by Slavoj Zizek. His scatological examination of different ideologies is already impressive in its absurd simplicity but just wait for the pubic hair analysis to be absolutely convinced. You will never again flush the toilet in the same…

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  • The Calm & The Storm

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    It’s a blog. Not a professional newspaper. We “opinionate”, we rarely (if ever) “report”. We blogcomb and we recycle with an input of opinions. That is why when summer comes – the silly season – the blog tends to aestivate in its own way. Travels and trips and holidays mean that notwithstanding advanced technology that…

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  • Gunpowder, Reason and Plot

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    Fireworks were invented in China and their original purpose was to scare off evil spirits. The next step up from the manufacture of fireworks would be the creation of gunpowder – the deadly explosive concotion with the power to take life away. The basic chemistry behind fireworks is the same chemistry behind fireworks. While one…

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  • J'accuse: Dying Myths

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    Number One: God It’s been one hell of a myth-busting week, one of the groundbreaking variety. It all began with the revelation (this time not in Patmos) that Stephen Hawking’s new book includes the following bold assertion: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous…

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  • Sliema: Reaping what was sown

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    AD Chairman and Michael Briguglio has given J’accuse permission to reproduce this article in the Zolabytes section. We consider it a further contribution on the current debate on Local Councils and an insiders insight on the mechanisms operating behind LC politics. Mike blogs regularly at Mike’s Beat (see j’accuse blogroll – we’re kicking that off…

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