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Hate Inc. Strange Book Review

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Sometimes, it feels good to hate!

Journalist Matt Taibbi’s 2019 book Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes us Despise One Another.

Taibbi brilliantly analyzes how trends in news media have changed in the last forty years.

Hate Inc. is a spiritual successor to the book Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman, but Hate Inc.’s alt-title would be Manufacturing Discontent because that is the business model for media in the age of neoliberalism. Do yourself a favor, and buy Hate Inc.

Citations:
Taibbi, Matt. Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another: With a New Post-Election Preface.

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How to Become a Witch?

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Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong.

Period!

Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against the reel body and the conflict between body and mind are essential conditions for the development of labor power & self-ownership, two central principles of modern social organization.

In the first in a new series on the channel, this video looks at the Introduction to Caliban & the Witch.

Citations:

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!

Marx, Karl. The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. Buy here!

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CALIBAN & THE WITCH
HISTORY

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SAFE-T Act Town Hall

2/5/2022

Co-Hosted by: CIRC & Afro-Soc BloNo

The Safe-T Act, HB 3653, omnibus criminal justice law signed into law in 2021.

The members of CIRC & Afro-SOC BloNo support this law, and so do the working people of our communities. We strongly encourage you to support the reforms made by the law and do everything in your power to implement the changes with equity. Furthermore, public officials should be mindful that the working people of Illinois support efforts toward increased police accountability, transparency, and reform. The public also desires alternative institutions to address public safety. We are certain that the guidance we are providing will help to establish expectations for these domains. This guidance carefully explains what the law says, what it doesn’t say, and best practices on how to implement this law at the local level here in Illinois.

CIRC Official Guidance

CIRC HB 3653 Action Guide

Town Hall Powerpoint Presentation

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Contact CIRC at cisolidarityresearch@gmail.com.

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The Principle of Identity

What is Identity? What does it mean to identify with something or to be identified? We go on a strange journey through the simplest of statements A=A, in search of answers to these questions.

Music sampled from Zoë Blade.

Citations:

Ferreira, Pete, and Richard Polt. “The Richard Polt Ereignis Interview.” Ereignis, 12 Dec. 2005.

Ferreira, Pete, and Richard Capobianco. “The Richard Capobianco Ereignis Interview.” Ereignis, 29 June 2010.

Laozi. Tao: A New Way of Thinking: A Translation of the Tao tê Ching with an Introduction and Commentaries, translated by Chung-Yuan Chang, Singing Dragon, London, 2014. Buy here.

Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time, HarperPerennial/Modern Thought, New York, 2008. Buy Here.

Heidegger, Martin. Identity and Difference. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008. Buy Here.

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Science Fiction & Logic Time

On this day, many a sun ago, science-fiction author Philip Jose Farmer was born. In celebration of his memory, I present to you this video about science fiction and logic.

(January 26, 1918-February 25, 2009)

Let’s look at these two statements:

1. PJF is PJF. (Grammatically)
p=p (Logically)
Necessarily true.
Trivial

2. PJF is the author of Riders of the Purple Wage. (Grammatically)
Ǝx [Axr & ∀y(Ayr →y=x) & x=p] (Logically)
Contingently true.
Informative.

Check out these science fiction books:
Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip Jose Farmer

Dangerous Visions Edited by Harlan Ellison

The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection by Philip Jose Farmer

Learn more about Philip Jose Farmer @ PJFarmer.com.

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Official Guidance on SAFE-T Act and Virtual Town Hall

HB 3653 Guidance

[FULL DISCLOSURE: The editor of Agitation Rising News is a founding member of CIRC.]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!

January 22, 2022

The Central Illinois Research Collective (CIRC) supports the new criminal justice reform law, HB 3653, signed into law by Governor J.B. Pritzker in 2021. Our organization strongly supports the principles of this law like police transparency, accountability, and alternatives to policing. 

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We are releasing this guidance to assist local municipalities in properly interpreting & implementing HB 3653. We believe it is important for public officials to know that our membership supports this legislation. We encourage public officials to embrace these reforms & implement them to the best of their abilities. Furthermore, our organization is looking to hold public officials accountable when it comes to this responsibility.

Here is the digital link to the guidance:
HB 3653 Guidance.pdf

Our organization is co-hosting a Virtual Town Hall on Saturday, February 5th, 2022 at 1:00 PM with the AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color of Bloomington-Normal to explain the guidance in greater detail. This law has left much controversy and questions around how it will be implemented throughout Illinois.  This law is much more than just the Pretrial Fairness Act. This event hopes to bring clarity to the important nuances of the law. Our Town Hall will also address follow-up laws adjusting HB 3653. 

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