Monday Lazy Linking
rechelon on Do you find the word “Anarchist” as an antagonist to the movement? reddit: the voice of the internet — news before it happens (2011-01-21).
An-Archia means Without Rulership, so regardless of whatever we identify as people will call us "anarchists" and our ideals "anarchy" and they will be correct. In a bit of Orwellian ridiculousness "Anarchy" today is largely accepted as BOTH violent chaos and without rulership. That is to say whenever someone uses…
(Linked Friday 2011-01-21.)Unfriending. ongoing by Tim Bray (2011-01-20).
I've never really got much out of Facebook. Quite likely because I've been Doing It Wrong; so I'm trying to fix that. What happened was, I got on Facebook back in 2007; in the early days I accepted friend requests from almost anyone and in particular anyone who worked at…
(Linked Sunday 2011-01-23.)Institutions, Organizations, and Anarchy. joshmccabe, The Sociological Imagination (2011-01-20).
One of the things I've been noticing as I delve deeper into the economic sociology literature is just how much sociologists take the existence of the state for granted. In most cases, the state is omnipresent in modern society because we could not have markets in its absence. Many Marxists,…
(Linked Sunday 2011-01-23.)Edison's Predictions for the Year 2011 (1911) Matt Novak, Paleofuture Blog (2011-01-18).
On June 23, 1911 the Miami Metropolis published predictions about the year 2011 from the one and only Tommy "Dumbo Killah” Edison. Edison makes some amazing predictions about a future of golden automobiles, the discontinuation of gold as currency, the rise of steel and the death of the steam engine. I'm especially…
(Linked Sunday 2011-01-23.)