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This isn’t a joke

A new issue of e-flux is out. Howard S. Schwartz (Oakland): What is the Occupy Wall Street Protest a Protest of? A Psychoanalytic Investigation. You can download Shifting Borders: European Perspectives on Creolisation, ed. Tommaso Sbriccoli and Stefano Jacoviello. Do zombies experience consciousness? Shaunacy Ferro on braaains. The thinkers admired, corrupted and oppressed by the Nazis: John Cornwell reviews Hitler’s Philosophers by Yvonne Sherratt. When a 10-year-old kills his Nazi father, who's to blame? From Curator, Alex Miller Jr. writes in defense of pompous asses. Your constitutional rights have been repealed in ten states; no, this isn't a joke — it is not exaggeration or hyperbole. Postapocalyptic hellscape: There's nothing that, say, reality TV or Glee can throw at us to make me say "the world is going to hell in a handbasket" — it already went.