eco-anarchy links

---"The average smartphone user checks his or her device 150 times per day, or about once every six minutes."

---"Google will interpose itself, and hence the United States government, between the communications of every human being not in China (naughty China). Commodities just become more marvelous; young, urban professionals sleep, work and shop with greater ease and comfort; democracy is insidiously subverted by technologies of surveillance, and control is enthusiastically rebranded as “participation”; and our present world order of systematized domination, intimidation and oppression continues, unmentioned, unafflicted or only faintly perturbed." --Julian Assange

---an interview with James Brown

---"the proper way to tame all those Yemeni kids angry about the drone strikes is to distract them with—ready?—cute cats on YouTube and Angry Birds on their phones" --Evgeny Morozov

---the modern surveillance state

---"the logic justifying drone attacks comes full circle: we kill them because they are our enemies, and they are our enemies because we kill them."

---"what if computers were able to learn from us to the point they could instantly draw on every interaction we’ve ever had online?"

---media attention after a murder in Woolwich

---"every movie I have mentioned and many more besides, from mega-budget spectacle out to the indie fringe, is just a mechanism for deflecting actual political resistance into the symbolic realm. And, hey, having a godlike quartet of prankster-magicians increase my bank balance several times over sounds like a lot more fun than contemplating the impossible or implausible social changes that would be required in order to divert Wall Street’s zillions to better purposes." --Andrew O'Hehir

---“If you want to make an anarchist film, make it with a corporation”  --Zal Batmanglij, director of The East

---social media-fueled protest in Turkey and in Zuccotti Park

---White One Hundred

---discussing Samuel Fuller

---"Male charm is all but absent from the screen because it’s all but absent from our lives."

---"poverty is what makes the rich, rich."

---"A higher-up declared that, forthwith, every story in the magazine had to answer at least one of two questions: 'How do I dress?' and 'How can I get laid?'" --Peter Rainer

---"How to make an indie movie"

---Richard Brody considers Howard Hawks' Scarface

---trailers for The Act of Killing, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, and Machete Kills

---"Nasser al-Awlaki told me that, when he found out that his son was on a kill list, he wrote a letter to President Obama and said basically 'Can’t we resolve this some other way? If my son did something, can’t you present the evidence?' He got no response."