Day: May 30, 2012

  • THE IRONY OF HISTORY

    Translated from the French by Tim Gupwell.

    I have made the observation here that what leads us to desire change is never the projection of an idyllic image of a new future world to which we aspire, but rather the present moment in which we live become intolerable.

    Irony plays a considerable role in history…

  • DISMANTLING UNCERTAIN, ECONOMIC DISASTER GUARANTEED, by François Leclerc

    Guest post. Translated from the French by Tim Gupwell.

    It’s already well established that Tepco, the operator of Fukushima, is in control of very little in the devastated nuclear plant. Not the ongoing, endemic contamination of the atmosphere and of the sea, not the status of nuclear fuel reduced to a state of three coriums…