Category Archives: Interweb Motley

I’m not alone in getting a kick out of how Marx incorporated vampires, werewolves, and other monsters into the narrative of Capital. In fact, David McNally’s Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism takes the cake on this note … Continue reading →

Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac has been in the news lately. First, the 120-foot, type-written scroll of his 1957 classic On The Road has been put on display as part of an exhibition at the British Library (until December). The scroll was … Continue reading →

Benjamin Kunkel in the New Statesman critiques what he calls the “unbearable lightness of Slajov Žižek’s communism” and notes how the Slovenian philosopher’s celebrity produced an odd result: “A ruthless criticism of capitalism, it turned out, could still be contemplated … Continue reading →

Derek Gregory’s new blog Geographical Imaginations becomes welcome addition to the geograsphere. My favorite recent post: Learning to Eat Soup with a Silver Spoon. Nils Gilman on Robert Bunker’s idea of a “plutocratic insurgency,” which describes those staging areas or … Continue reading →

“Occupy Buddhism: Or Why the Dalai Lama is a Marxist” by Stuart Smithers sort of speaks for itself, doesn’t it? Against the Grain, a radio show of KPFK in Berkeley, had some interesting downloadable interviews with Jonathan Nitzman on his … Continue reading →

During World War I, satirical maps of Europe became a hotly contested battle zone of competing propaganda. Still waiting for the Eurozone version of this. Ever wonder why today’s camouflage is pixelated? Apparently, to avoid detection in today’s main source … Continue reading →

Imagine a segregated road system where color dictates which roads you can drive on. This infographic from Visualizing Palestine offers a typology of segregation for Israel’s roads in the occupied Palestinian territories. Jared Diamond’s review of Why Nations Fail, made … Continue reading →