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...scene is a bakery, somewhere in Europe. Customers are queueing up to make their purchases. But instead of money, they offer a pair of ice skates, a guitar, a wheelbarrow of coal, a teddy bear. A sign above the counter reads, "?-day. Expect Delays." Another says, "Barter here." If you need a further clue as to what's going on, there's a calendar displaying the date...
This self-referential gaze of the news camera has not escaped theory unnoticed. Walter Benjamin warned in 1937 that the aestheticization of politics would lead directly to war, and proposed a counter-strategy of politicizing aesthetics. But the mechanical reproducibility of which Benjamin wrote did not consist solely of such Lacanian moments-in-the-mirror as showing the masses a videotape of themselves. He was concerned more broadly that “the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition.” The image, reproduced ad nauseum, need no longer be encountered in context...
Harvard police had to repeatedly separate PSLM supporters from the counter-protesters, as heated words flew between the two sides...
...massive rally also drew a small counter-protest that was the scene of the day's only heated moments...
...Nader went counter to everything we all thought he believed in," says Robert Habush, who as head of the American Trial Lawyers Association in the 1980s forged a decades-long alliance with Nader organizations. Trial lawyers defending victims of corporate negligence have gotten rich from juries educated by three decades of Nader?s consumer crusades. But that relationship has now ended. Bush wants to cap the damages juries can award to plaintiffs, cutting into lawyers' fees?and the lawyers blame Nader. Even though he no longer even sits on their boards, his old organizations are feeling the brunt...