An introduction by Andy Robinson: (for for background on Badiou, see his book on Metapolitics here ) “The first thing to note about Badiou is that he is heavily influenced by Lacan. He is one of a group of French post-Althusserians (among them Ranciere and Balibar) who found refuge in Lacan and poststructuralism after Althusser’s sudden transition to unfashionability, and who for generational reasons are very visible today, at a time when the previous wave of poststructuralists (many of them old enough that they actually went to Lacan’s

Blarneycrone's post, " As large as life and twice as cheerful ," about the NACD Digital Directorship session is great journalism. Factual, captures affect, and, thank you, Liz Barron, is humorous...and and the pictures are fantastic.

I was just having a little think about Facebook’s news yesterday that it won’t be putting a CEOP panic button on all of its pages. Instead Facebook says it will have links to organisations including the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre on its reporting pages. Although I’m a huge supporter of CEOP’s marvellous work, I have to say I can see Facebook’s point. Grooming activity is not the only reason why people may want to report a post – think of bullying, copyright, hate crime, terrorist activity, inappropriate language or imagery – there are a multitude of reasons

Page 45, “ The Persuasion Persuasion ” It was was like a hotel, all in order for our stay: The white linen hand towels, monogrammed in in red with “Pale Brook Park,” were starched, ironed, and hung on maple dowels; the

Massimo de Angelis report on the Yasuni’s struggle against petroleum extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon region, based and inspired by their “Mother Earth” related deity Pochamama, clearly discusses the same links we discuss in our section on neotraditional economics, and why these linkages between pre-industrial and post-industrial thinking and practices are important, see here for details. Massimo De Angelis on the role of Pochama : “Pochamama is the deity of Andean origin and refers to “mother earth”, not just as geological earth or nature but also as a set

While cooking dinner I get stamping pads and make a couple of potato stamps for the little guy. He haven’t stamped before, at least not with me, so I show him how to do it and ask to stamp on the paper, not on the table. In ten minutes he brings the stamps back to me and tells that he wants to stamp with his hands.

There is an interesting discussion going on about how the flow of data moving around the internet gives it a ’shape’ and what that shape means. You can see this discussion written up in an interesting article in the New York Times; ‘ Scientists Strive to Map the Shape-Shifting Net ‘. So what is mean by the ’shape’ of the Internet?