to tide yall over til I return to deliver my usual AQALuscious delights...

Rip, mix, and burn, baby:

"In Free Culture, his third and best book, Lessig shows his hand. He has a cause, and he wants us to rally to it. The cause is the protection of that imaginary piece of real estate known as "the public domain" and the "free culture" that has always, Lessig argues, been built upon and interleaved with it -- the culture of transformative art, of sharing and borrowing and reborrowing and retransforming, of collages, cover versions, dramatizations, fictionalizations, and adaptations -- the whole universe of ways new art builds upon and emerges from old."

Apocalypse now?

"Left Behind: Elective Affinities and Double Ironies... What are we to make of the strange parallels between this popular series of evangelical fiction and this aggressive Neoconservative strategy for American hegemony?"

Stan Goff is the Man On Fire:

"...we need all the myths in a basket, and Hollywood accommodates: Imperial myths, melting pot myths, and hegemonic military masculinity myths, to articulate a culture's prevailing images a society needs to project about itself in order to maintain certain features of its organization."

Some subtle smelling salt for the somnolent self:

"...it is almost impossible to speak any longer about the personal Laor and the political Laor. There is only one poetic persona in it, which is simultaneously absolutely political and absolutely personal. The voice is that of a poetic persona through whose life the "situation" passes and touches everything he has, grasping and refusing to let go. The child, the wife, the hours of wakefulness alone at night, memory, the very act of writing--everything is political. And from the other extreme, every terror attack, every act of occupation, every moral injustice--everything is completely personal."