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...item viewed in a dark theatre by a passive, alienated mass, film already constitutes a mystical, reified object, a spectacle that obscures the conditions of its production: that it is man-made, that it isn't a Larger-than-Life-Reflection-of-Reality, that it is merely a celluloid construct. The Hollywood artistry Petri employs, and the Ideology of Ambiguous Truth he promotes, reinforce the perverse relation between the audience and their fetishized entertainment commodity, his film becomes an exciting, confusing, reassuring, self-inclusive Reality: an Artistic Whole, fascinating, hence demobilizing. Investigations of a Citizen Above Suspicion, with its metonymical...
Molecular biologists are also probing ever more deeply into the process of cell differentiation. It has long been known that the DNA in every body cell of an individual organism is identical; this DNA contains all the information necessary to construct the whole organism. Why then, in a human being, for example, is a liver cell so different from a hair cell, a heart cell so different from a skin cell? The answer, Jacob and Monod theorized in 1961, is that only a small percentage of the genes in any cell are giving instructions for the operation of that particular...
...foreigners siphon off the country's natural wealth. Instead of pretending a special or temporal literalness (like Hollywood montage), this connection is based on a mediation of concrete images with the assessment of Argentine social structure as a class structure. The ambiguous apparent nature of the images by a construct of contradiction is transformed into their essential nature based in material conditions...
PCPJ and NPAC have called for a national moratorium on May 5 to commemorate the killings at Jackson State and Kent State. In Boston, there will be a rally on the Common, where members of the PCPJ (mostly from the American Friends Service Committee and MassPax) will construct either one or a series of geodesic domes to serve as information centers for local anti-war activities. Organizers hope to be able to keep the domes open through the summer, but if that proves impossible, they will attempt to open a storefront near the Common to serve as their information center...
...Boston, the May 5 Moratorium will be observed by a mass rally on the Boston Common, where organizers plan to construct a geodesic dome to serve as an information center for local antiwar activities. Organizers of the Boston rally hope that those planning to engage in the next day's disobedience at the JFK Building will stay overnight on the Common. "to show that the park belongs to the people, and not to the state...