ART >>>IMAGINING WHAT ISN'T IN ORDER TO MAKE IT WHAT IS ... IMAGINING WHAT NEVER WAS OR WILL BE IN ORDER TO STRETCH IMAGINING ITSELF

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"We are singing and preaching for local economies and real--not mediated through products--experience. We like independent shops where you know the person behind the counter or at least - you like them enough to share a story. We ask that local activists who are defending themselves against supermalls, nuke plants, gentrification--call us and we'll come and put on our "Fabulous Worship!" Remember children...Love is a Gift Economy!" — The Rev

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ENVIRONMENT>>>WE'VE ALREADY IMAGINED WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE ... THAT'S NOT THE PROBLEM

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"When Watson is separated from land, he tends to behave like Captain Nemo, which is to say that he does what he thinks is right, even if it involves a violation of custom or the destruction of property. There are a number of rules belonging to civilization that outrage his sense of morality, among them the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which asserts that sovereign states alone are the ocean’s enforcers. If such rules interfere with his agenda, then, as far as he is concerned, rules be damned. This is particularly true when whales are at issue. Watson believes that whales are more intelligent than people, and that their slaughter is tantamount to murder..." --Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker

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CONSUMER CULTURE >>>ALL-CONSUMING FAILURES OF IMAGINATION

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"He proposes that a reduction of consumption be imposed on this oligarchy that has globalized poverty, so that it no longer feeds this unsustainable dream, which numbs the critical faculties of the entire planet to the point that it closes its eyes to the wall into which it is careening full speed ahead."- Hervé Kempf, author of the acclaimed Comment les riches détruisent la planète (How the Rich Destroy the Planet, Seuil, 2007).

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BUSINESS / ECONOMIES >>>WILDLY IMAGINATIVE FORMS OF EXCHANGE

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"We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade. We believe in fair trade and exchange, not competition but cooperation. I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty. For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are cancelling the historical debt."- Hugo Chavez

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POLITICS >>> IMAGINING DIFFERENT WORLDS

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"The role of the Internet in the international circulation of information on the indigenous rebellion in Chiapas developed quickly and has continued to evolve. Early on, the Internet provided a means for the rapid dissemination of information and organization through preexisting circuits, such as those which had been created as part of the struggle to block the NAFTA, or those concerned with Latin American and indigenous issues. These networks existed primarily at an international level, mostly in computer-rich North American and Western European countries."--Harry Cleaver

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TECHNOLOGY / MEDIA>>>HACKERS AS WILD IMAGINEERS

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"These self-described techno-nerds devote their time and energies to demonstrating just how vulnerable the internet has made once-secure information. But are hackers merely the mischievous high-tech pranksters they purport to be, or serious criminals costing businesses billions each year? And can nations --"Hackers", PBS FRONTLINE

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