Travis Mushett is an activist, writer of fiction and non-fiction, student of social movements, and PhD candidate in communications at the Columbia University School of Journalism.
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A Sunday Collage XII
Every other time I go out to eat with a group, be it family, friends, or acquaintances of whatever age, conversation routinely plunges into a discussion of when it is appropriate to pull out a phone. People boast about their … Continue reading
A Sunday Collage XI
Jean Baudrillard once suggested an important correction to classical Marxism: exchange value is not, as Marx had it, a distortion of a commodity’s underlying use value; use value, instead, is a fiction created by exchange value. In the same way, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Albert Camus, Andrew O'Hehir, collage, jean baudrillard, Mark Adams, n+1, OWS, Scott Timberg, Teju Cole
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A Sunday Collage X
~Salon ——– “There’s a difference,” remarked one colleague, “between getting a girl to think you’re smart, and getting a girl to WANT to talk to you. The following are books that will make girls want to talk to you. —Greatest … Continue reading
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Tagged A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Politics, collage, Jim Newell, Luigi Zingales, n+1, politics, Sadie Stein
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A Sunday Collage VIII
~Unsigned graffito in Williamsburg, Brooklyn ——– As a 23 year old, let me be the first to say that that Jonah Goldberg video, and to a lesser extent Matt Labash’s mini-rant, really pissed me off. I get it, we’re young, you guys … Continue reading
A Sunday Collage VII… On Tuesday
——– This is what Quebec looks like right now. Every night is teargas and riot cops, but it is also joy, laughter, kindness, togetherness, and beautiful music. Our hearts are bursting. We are so proud of each other; of the … Continue reading
A Sunday Collage VI
• A prison-cell upgrade: $90 a night. In Santa Ana, California, and some other cities, nonviolent offenders can pay for a clean, quiet jail cell, without any non-paying prisoners to disturb them. • Access to the carpool lane while driving … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Bloc, Carolin Bankoff, collage, David Graeber, Emily Temple, Greece, Gregory Corso, Lord Byron, Michael J. Sandel, Michel Houellebecq, Occupy, OWS, Roberto Bolaño
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A Sunday Collage V
And I am the King of May, which is the power of sexual youth, and I am the King of May, which is industry in eloquence and action in amour, and I am the King of May, which is long … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, collage, DJ Spooky, EZLN, Jeff Conant, Mad Men, Pop Culture Pirate, Zapatistas
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A Sunday Collage IV
——– After evictions and arrests from Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park toLondon that began last year, the movement against income inequality and corporate abuse will regain strength, said Brian McNary, director of global risk at Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations, a subsidiary of Sweden’s Securitas … Continue reading
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Tagged Adele, collage, Elmo, Max Abelson, May Day, Occupy, OWS, William Delaney
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A Sunday Collage III
She is on the horizon. . . . I go two steps, she moves two steps away. I walk ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps ahead. No matter how much I walk, I’ll never reach her. What good is utopia? … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrienne Rich, collage, Eduardo Galeano, Nathaniel Stein, Newt Gingrich, Porky Pig, Salvador Dali, Thomas Pynchon
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A Sunday Collage II
“I am sure you know what Paul de Man says about insight and blindness. His theory has to do with an insight that can actually obscure other things, that can be a blindness. And the reverse, also, how what seems … Continue reading
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Tagged collage, Dan Belini, Occupy, OWS, Stephen Duncombe, Teju Cole, The Invisible Committee, The Lettrist International
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