Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'capitalism'
Swine Flu Vaccine Shortfall, or Why US Health Care Needs Greater Governmental Oversight
Barbara Ehrenreich explains that the shorfall of H1N1 vaccine in the United States is due to the failure of US pharmaceutical companies to meet their self-imposed production targets. This failure is the direct result of pharmaceuticals choosing to pursue...
Dittohead Forever: Rush Limbaugh Dropped From Bid for NFL Rams
Yesterday Dave Checketts, the executive leader of a group bidding for the N.F.L. Rams, announced Rush Limbaugh would be dropped from the group. Writing for The New York Times, Judy Battista reports that once word leaked last week that...
Chump Change
In June, they were calling it the God Phone. On Thursday, it was the Chump Phone. — "iPhone Owners Crying Foul Over Price Cut"Katie Hafner and Brad Stone The first two sentences of Katie Hafner and Brad Stone's "iPhone...
Drugged Up Zombie Laborers
A video essay about the drug Burundanga reminds me of the (much more authoritative) work Wade Davis did regarding "Ethonobiology of the Haitian Zombie" (subtitle) in Passage of Darkness.1 Zombification in Haiti involves the use of a powerful neurotoxin that...
Double Stitch
For the past two weeks, I’ve wanted to follow up on my post regarding the ending of Spamland #1 (the only one I’ve as yet seen.) My argument was to have identified the retroactive constitution of subjectivity through the chain...
Cyberspatial incohesion
In Mark Neale’s 2000 documentary No Maps For These Territories—a desynched moving epitaph and paean to the moment that both passes and arrives—William Gibson recalls the disruptive 1960s and his draft dodge which brings him to Vancouver. Gibson admits his...
The Postmodern Challenge
Today I was challenged to define postmodernism in ten words or less. I offered, proudly and tautologically, “Postmodernism is what comes after Modernism.” Pride and tautologies aside, a succinct definition of postmodernity is something I was reluctant to provide...
Ain't This The Life?
On 12 April, CNN's Money Magazine published a hoot of an article ranking “The Best Jobs in America” in terms of “stress level, flexibility in work environment and hours, creativity, and ease of entry and advancement in the field.”...
Captalism: Now with Moxie!
I don’t watch broadcast or cable television unless I’m with someone who is bothering to do so. I don’t mean I mostly don’t watch broadcast or cable television, choosing only my favorite shows out the week’s lineup. I don’t mean...
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