Even though I am surrounded, at most times, by student politics I rarely associate with any sort of student activism. I would be more inclined to commit to student activism if students were more ambitious. For instance: instead of holding a "reduce fees" campaign why not hold an "abolition of fees" campaign. I would also be more likely to associate ( Read more... )

I am in constant reminder of why I live in Vancouver. Today was an amazingly beautiful day! It feels like spring is crawling upon us, and that soon the cherry blossom trees will burst open like pink popcorn. The sun was so brilliant today. It brought forth a confusing nostalgia; however, a gratifying nostalgia that put a shit eating grin across my ( Read more... )

I am not a Kevin, I am dynamite!

It has come to my attention that some of my writing in this blog is not very “accessible;” meaning that I use a lot of jargon, and philosophical or outdated terminology. This is for several reasons. Firstly, I only have a limited amount of time to write on here as I am a busy student; so, I often rush through writing my entries. Secondly, again, I ( Read more... )

I have been getting quite comfortable with two of the works of Manuel de Landa; firstly, his book War in the Age of Intelligent Machines; secondly, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. I have also read many of his interviews and smaller articles. It has been interesting watching this self-proclaimed “street philosopher” develop and articulate as ( Read more... )

Where those who admit that they are bored, and yet they wish to remain this way. Where there are those who wish to be lost in the absence of thought - I mean real thought - without engaging in a very real struggle. Where there are those who wish to forget that others suffer while they sit on the throne of privilege. Where there are those who walk ( Read more... )

I just missed my fieldtrip to a high-tech indusrty cluster; any other day I wouldn't mind, however, today I do! My term paper is supposed to address things that we experienced in the field. And this was our only chance ... although not my fault (blame the bus), this still fucking sucks. Oh well, Industrial location is bullshit anyhow.

Because of the lack of time I have had on writing or transcribing my geographic work to place on my blogspot I have decided to create a tumblr for posting my shorter diatribes and things of interest. Please check it out here: robotamerica.tumblr.com

“only a statist mentality would not see that "representative democracy" is an oxymoron.” - Murray Bookchin.Today, as I was reading the paper, a familiar democratic circumstance was revealed to me, and for once I didn't have to read between the lines. The circumstance happened to be voter apathy and it had raised some important questions in my mind ( Read more... )

I have been reading some works by Antonio Negri lately and of course along with Negri his collaborator Michael Hardt. I have concentrated on Empire, Multitude: War and Democracy in the age of Empire, and Time for Revolution. I first read Time for Revolution about four years ago and I took it as a critique of late Marxism, Structuralism, and other ( Read more... )