"I was born in 1951 into the most privileged white male generation in Western history: post-war, grants to go to university, jobs available, housing affordable, a decently funded NHS. My mother, before she married, was a librarian at the Brotherton in Leeds, and there were books on the shelves at home; my father, as far as I know, didn't read them.
"I went freelance at the end of 2005. I was grateful to the publishers who paid me to copy-edit and typeset books at home, but I did wonder why some of those books were being published at all. An uncle died (aged 100) and left me £2,000. I googled 'West London printer' and learned I could use that money to print 250 copies each of four titles. The first four books were published in November 2007. I put copies in a bag and walked into some of the London independent bookshops. I had no distributor and no plans to publish anything else – but I found, unexpectedly, that I'd stumbled upon an addictive activity.
"Between 2007 and 2016 CB Editions published 54 books: roughly 40% fiction, 40% poetry and 20% non-fiction of various kinds. Around 20% of the titles are published in translation. These proportions were not planned: I've always seen CB Editions as, quite simply, a natural and logical extension of my interests (and prejudices) as a reader and writer. I've had subsidies for a few of the translations but otherwise no funding for any of the books. Because I picked up some design and typesetting know-how while in full-time work, and am happy to do these without costing them to the press, this hasn't been a problem. I do understand that for those without my privileges – of background and relevant work experience – some form of funding for those wanting to publish outside the mainstream is necessary, and not just for themselves but for the whole of society.
"Some of the books have garnered prizes (for fiction, poetry and translation) and there have been many shortlistings. These have helped to publicise the press and increase sales in a useful way. Personally, I am not good at – and don't enjoy – any kind of marketing, and have relied on word-of-mouth and some very supportive readers (and luck). I am no less proud of the books that somehow escaped the attention of the prize-givers.
"I know nothing about the implications of Brexit for publishing. More generally, I happen to think that many of votes cast for Brexit were a protest against the arrogant indifference and stupidity of the UK's governing elite, and that these are still the elite's hallmarks, and that honest publishing and writing are themselves a form of protest, and that intelligent protest is more necessary now than at any time in my life.
"In late 2016 I decided to downsize CB Editions. I'm not fully retired, because neither writing nor publishing is work I can simply close the laptop on and go out to play golf. In 2017 there were two books, and this year there will be another two (Will Eaves's Murmur, published in March, and Philip Hancock's City Works Dept. in September). At present, just one title is planned for next year.
"The reasons why CB Editions is semi-retired – the 'semi' allows me to swing both ways – are various and mostly personal. (The same could be said of the reasons why, back in 2001, after publishing six collections of poems with Carcanet and Faber, I stopped writing poetry.) After running CB Editions single-handed for a decade, I felt that I'd probably reached the limit of what a one-man-band can do, and I find myself temperamentally unsuited to the 'growth' model. I enjoy the more mundane tasks – packing books and queuing the post office, lugging boxes from the printer to the distributor's warehouse – and see no reason to deprive myself of those by delegating them to others. I am not a manager. Besides, since 2007 many excellent new small independent publishers have arrived and are doing great work. CB Editions turns out to be necessary for myself, but in the wider publishing world it is not indispensable.


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Legendary Drag Racer Star, Al "Boogie" Roberson Reigns On The Racetrack
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Al "Boogie" Roberson (right) with his teammate Rick Long (left).
A name to know in the world of drag racing is Al Roberson, known on the racetrack as "Al Boogie." He is a legendary drag racer. In fact, he has accumulated more wins in the 'no-time' category than any other racer in history!
This summer, Al "Boogie" Roberson and his fearsome team, The Southern Assassins, take to the tracks again, unleashing their world-famous, gluttonous beast of a car, Honcho the Camaro.
Grudge drag racing attracts thousands every weekend all over the United States and world, featuring cars that look like they want to eat you but none, it seems, are as strong and fast as Al Boogie's Honcho.
Sitting in his garage (at an undisclosed location for security reasons), Al Boogie is leaning on Honcho while it is on Pro Jacks, in jeans and a t-shirt, sipping casually on a beer; seemingly unaware that he's turned grudge racing on its head. The kicker? He drives with only one arm! And yet, he's the winningest racer in the sport, having lost only ten races since the early 1990s.
The Southern Assassins, comprised of Al Boogie and teammates Rick and Clint, built Honcho the Camaro with a purse of $175,000. "No car has ever beaten Honcho," Boogie said proudly. When asked what's under the hood, he grins mischievously. "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you." Yes, it seems this trio of Mech Techs could turn even a Pinto into a tar-burning Carantula!
Al Boogie's rise to grudge dominance was briefly interrupted by a seven-year gig in federal prison on a drug wrap. "I was set up," said Boogie. "Then again, aren't we all?" Since his release in 2016, Al Boogie and The Southern Assassins are chapping hides on drag tracks all around the world. "We've never run away from a challenge," he'd like to remind us.
Al Boogie grew up in poverty in North Carolina—the no running water kind. But his stepfather allowed him to drive the family hotrod when he was twelve. "He let me rev' it up and feel its horsepower." After that, Al was hooked.
A day at the race starts simple enough for Al and The Southern Assassins. After a few test-runs with the team, the bombastic Al Boogie begins the event with some well-YouTubed smack-talk against his challengers (all in good fun), followed by a quick banter with the crowds and press. And then, all hell breaks loose as the Southern Assassins unleash Honcho, the gluttonous Camaro beast, across a 660-foot stretch of sheer madness!
Just then, Al "Boogie" Roberson spoke in reverent tones. "You're strapped into this behemoth machine at the start lane, and that's when anxiety sets in. You know that in just a few seconds, you're in for a monster ride. Now, you're on your own and you say a prayer."
In the grudge racing world, drivers are prohibited from disclosing how fast their cars go. That's OK. It's plain to see The Southern Assassins' drive in the speed of–insane.
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The goal: To raise $300,000 for annual student scholarships in three days from alumni, parents, faculty, staff and friends of the university.
The result: More than $365,000 was donated during the period from April 29-May 1, with gifts still being accepted through the end of MU's fiscal year, June 30. The outpouring of gifts from more than 1,000 donors topped a previous two-day blitz in spring 2014 that raised more than $200,000.
Again this year, "blue cheese" videos used humor to emphasize the serious need for student scholarships, highlighting the fact that 98 percent of Millikin students receive some type of financial aid to attend the university. MU distributed more than $35.7 million in scholarship support to students for the 2014-15 year, ranging from merit to alumni legacy and more. These scholarships are financial aid awards that are not to be paid back and are often based on academic achievement, talent or financial need.
"I hope we all feel a jolt of Big Blue pride at the way the Millikin community has stepped up to support this effort to make a positive difference in the lives of our students," says President Patrick White. "My heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported the True Blue Scholarship Challenge to help provide scholarships for deserving students."
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SCRANTON - After dropping their last two Landmark Conference matches, The University of Scranton men's tennis team bounced back on Saturday, as they controlled Susquehanna in a 7-2 win at Royal Courts.
With the win, the Royals moved to 6-6 overall and 2-2 in the Landmark Conference.
First, in doubles action, Scranton was victorious at the top two spots in the line-up to take a 2-1 lead on Susquehanna entering singles.
In the first flight, sophomore Tarquin McGurrin (Clarks Summit, Pa./Scranton Prep) and senior Alexander Ochalski (Hopewell, N.J./Hopewell Valley Central) rolled to an 8-0 win, while at number two, graduate student Christian Aksu (Exton, Pa./West Chester East) and senior Brian Harkins (New Fairfield, Conn./New Fairfield) coasted to an 8-3 win to give Scranton the lead entering singles.
In singles, the Royals won five of the six matches contested, all of which in straight sets, to take the convincing victory.
McGurrin (6-0, 7-5 at number one), Ochalski (6-2, 6-2 at number two), Harkins (6-0, 6-0 at number four) and Aksu (6-1, 6-0 at number five) were all two-time winners on the day for Scranton, while senior Charles Swope (Malvern, Pa./Great Valley) finished off the victory for the Royals with a 6-1, 6-0 win in the third singles flight.
The University of Scranton men's tennis team returns to action on Sunday, as they host Juniata in another home Landmark Conference match at Royal Courts. Action gets underway at 12 p.m.


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Should I set my soft and hard limit to be the same? Or should soft be significantly lower? Does the system benefit either way?

A: The hard limit is the ceiling for the soft limit. The soft limit is what is actually enforced for a session or process. This allows the administrator (or user) to set the hard limit to the maximum usage they wish to allow. Other users and processes can then use the soft limit to self-limit their resource usage to even lower levels if they so desire.

A: Users who violate a soft limit quota get an e-mail indicating that they have a few days' grace period before the penalties kick in.  Users who cross the hard limit threshold get no such grace period.  The penalty differs depending on the particular quota, but usually nearly every command will fail such that the user will want to come into compliance quickly.

A: User resource limits dictate the amount of resources that can be used for a particular session. The resources that can be controled are:
maximum size of core files
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maximum size of files created
maximum size that may be locked into memory
maximum size of resident memory
maximum number of file descriptors open at one time
maximum size of the stack
maximum amount of cpu time used
maximum number of processes allowed
maximum size of virtual memory available

It is important to note that these settings are per-session. This means that they are only effective for the time that the user is logged in (and for any processes that they run during that period). They are not global settings. In other words, they are only active for the duration of the session and the settings are not cumulative. For example, if you set the maximum number of processes to 11, the user may only have 11 processes running per session. They are not limited to 11 total processes on the machine as they may initiate another session. Each of the settings are per process settings during the session, with the exception of the maximum number of processes.
There are two types of limits that can be set for each property listed above, a hard and soft limit.
A hard limit cannot be changed by the user once it is set. Hard limits can only be changed by root user. A soft limit, however, can be changed by the user but cannot exceed the hard limit i.e. It can have minimum 0 value and maximum value as equal to 'hard limit'.
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Home World Africa news Jacob Zuma's Nkandla home upgrades unethical, Madonsela report
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President Jacob Zuma has "benefited unduly" from using state money to improve his rural residence in Nkandla, South Africa's top corruption fighter Thuli Madonsela has said.
The changes to Jacob Zuma's private home, including a pool and cattle enclosure, cost taxpayers about $23 million.
In a more than 400-page report, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela accused Jacob Zuma of unethical conduct.
Thuli Madonsela said that Jacob Zuma, who faces re-election in May, should repay costs for some of the unnecessary renovations.
The refurbishment of the residence in Nkandla, in Jacob Zuma's home province of KwaZulu-Natal, has turned into a major political controversy in South Africa.
A government probe in December cleared Jacob Zuma, who came to office in May 2009, of any wrongdoing, saying the improvements were needed for security reasons.
Correspondents say it was one of the reasons why Jacob Zuma was booed in December at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president.
Jacob Zuma's Nkandla private home upgrades, including a pool and cattle enclosure, cost taxpayers about $23 million
At a press conference in the capital, Pretoria, Thuli Madonsela, South Africa's ombudsman, said the cost of the Nkandla upgrades were now estimated at 246 million rand ($23 million).
The original estimate for the work in 2009 was about 27 million rand and the public protector launched her investigation in 2012 after it was reported that about 206 million rand had been spent.
"The president tacitly accepted the implementation of all measures at his residence and has unduly benefited from the enormous capital investment in the non-security installations at his private residence," the report said.
The report said that while it could be "legitimately construed" that Jacob Zuma had misled parliament over the renovations, it said it was a "bona fide mistake".
"Some of these measures can be legitimately classified as unlawful and the acts involved constitute improper conduct and maladministration," the AFP news agency quotes the report as saying.
Thuli Madonsela said Jacob Zuma had 14 days to respond to her report before parliament.
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CITY CODE of BOISE CITY, IDAHO
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TITLE 5 PUBLIC SAFETY
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10-2-11-4: DISCONNECTION OF SEWER FOR NONPAYMENT:
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A. Reasons For Disconnect: Sewer service can be discontinued for any of the following reasons:
1. Failure to pay sewer fees by the due date;
2. Failure to submit any deposits imposed pursuant to this chapter;
3. Failure to abide by the terms of a sewer fee payment arrangement or agreement;
4. Misrepresenting the identity of the user to receive service;
5. Failure to apply for service or connecting to the City sewer system without the knowledge or approval of the City;
6. Failure to abide by any provision of this chapter.
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1. Except in the event that public health requirements dictate immediate disconnection, written notice of the intent to terminate service shall be provided to the user at least fourteen (14) calendar days prior to the disconnection/termination date. In the case of a rental arrangement, the property owner will be sent a courtesy copy of the notice. The notice of termination shall contain the following:
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d. If the proposed termination is for nonpayment of fees, a statement of the amount of such nonpayment;
e. A statement that the user has ten (10) calendar days upon receipt of the registered letter to request a pretermination hearing before the Public Works Director or his/her designee;
f. A statement that if the user does not request a hearing or appear at the hearing, the basis for the termination, including the amount of fees due, will be deemed to be correct and the user's sewer service may be disconnected immediately thereafter.
2. The pretermination hearing shall be held no sooner than seven (7) calendar days from the date the request for hearing is made by the user. If the user appears at the hearing, the Public Works Director or designee shall hear the user's evidence and testimony, review and examine the testimony and evidence presented and render a decision based upon such testimony and evidence and upon the records of the City. The Public Works Director or designee may render a decision at the hearing or may render a decision in writing, and in such case will mail or otherwise provide a written copy of the decision to the user. The decision of the Public Works Director or designee may be appealed to the Public Works Commission within ten (10) calendar days of the date the decision is rendered using the provisions set forth in section 10-2-9-8 of this chapter. If the user fails to request a pretermination hearing, appear at the hearing or fails to timely appeal a decision of the Director or designee determining that the termination of service should proceed, the Director or designee may issue an order to shut off and discontinue service to the user.
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If you intend to use the WindowsAzure.Storage library with .Net Core you'll hit a"compatibility wall" trying to make it work.
So how can we use .Net Core to Create Azure Blob Storage SAS Keys?
The following class will hold de blob Uri and the SAS credentials.
I've created the GetSharedAccessSignature to return a write only SAS key for the blob. But you can easily change it to add more permissions.
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Former Manchester United star, Nani has joined Serie A strugglers Venezia on a free transfer after signing a one-year deal after his contract ended with Orlando City in MLS
The 35-year-old Portuguese superstar spent three seasons with Orlando, during which he scored 28 goals and provided 23 assists in 77 appearances. He was named an MLS All-Star in both 2019 and 2021.
Venezia have agreed an 18-month deal with Nani through until the end of the 2022/23 season, and will hope he can lift them from their current dire predicament.
Upon ending his contract with Orlando, Nani said: 'I shall never forget how the fans and community supported me and my family ever since the moment we arrived in Florida.
'You will have in me a friend and a fan for the future. I wish you all the best.'
During his time at Manchester United, where he enjoyed a highly decorated career, he won eight major trophies including four Premier League titles and the Champions League.
Police Inspector shot dead inside police station in Imo state
I Kiss My Wife's Feet, Carry Her Bags Out Of Love – Anita Joseph's Husband, MC Fish
"If I give you advice if you don't implant that in daily life it will be difficult' – Cristiano Ronaldo says young players struggle to take criticism nowadays
Bayern Munich star, Alphonso Davies diagnosed with inflammation of the heart after suffering Covid
CAF release statement on controversial AFCON 2021 clash between Mali and Tunisia
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Tennis star, Stefanos Tsitsipas slams Novak Djokovic for 'making Australian Open players look like fools and playing by his own rules'
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Бајка о боксеру () је америчка филмска драма из 2005. године, која је рађена по истинитој причи о америчком боксеру Џејмсу Џ. Бредоку. Филм је режирао Рон Хауард, док главне улоге играју: Расел Кроу, Рене Зелвегер и Пол Џијамати.

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Радња ове историјске драме, засноване на истинитом догађају, смештена је у 1920. годину, када је Џејмс Бредок био млада нада професионалног бокса.

Био је снажан, имао је духа и био је издржљив. Али озбиљна повреда главе и пораз од шампиона Томија Луграна била је прекретнице после које је, у доба велике депресије, Џејмсова каријера кренула низбрдо. Због тога он је приморан да ради као лучки радник у Њујорку за понижавајуће дневнице јер је то једини начин да издржава супругу Меј и њихово троје деце.

У очајничком покушају да заради више новца, Бредок се обраћа бившем тренеру и менаџеру Џоу Гулду, који изненађујуће брзо успева да организује меч против Џона Грифина у Медисон сквер гардену. Док сви мисле да је Бредок изашао из форме и да је престар, те да су му због тога шансе да победи врло мале, он ипак успева да порази Грифина, али и све остале противнике захваљујући снажном ударцу левом руком који је постао све убитачнији током година вежбе на доковима.

У време када је Америка имала очајничку потребу за добрим вестима, прича о Бредоковом изненађујућем повратку и успеху постала је омиљена вест свим радницима и незапосленима. Зато и не чуди што је 1935. године, када се одиграо меч са Максом Бером, шампионом у тешкој категорији, имао подршку готово целе Америке. Тај меч је и буквално и фигуративно био борба његовог живота.

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|Расел Кроу||Џејмс Џ. Бредок
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|Рене Зелвегер||Меј Бредок
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|Пол Џијамати||Џо Гулд
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|Крејг Бијерко||Макс Бер
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|Педи Консидајн||Мајк Вилсон
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|Брус Макгил||Џими Џонстон
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Manchester University Press Book Series
Past & Present Reading Group
A Political Economy of Australian Capitalism
Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE)
JAPE Issues
JAPE Submission Guidelines
JAPE Young Scholar Award
Australian IPE Network (AIPEN)
Debating Anatomies of Revolution
Debating Debtfare States
Debating Economic Ideas in Political Time
Debating Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India
Debating Social Movements in Latin America
Debating The Making of Modern Finance
Debating War and Social Change in Modern Europe
Feminist Global "Secureconomy"
Gendered Circuits of Labour and Violence in Global Crises
Scandalous Economics
The Military Roots of Neoliberal Governance
Politicising artistic pedagogies
Literary Geographies of Political Economy
Five Minute Honours Theses
Piketty Forum
Radical Economics Pedagogy
Marxism Reading Group
Wheelwright Lecture
Political Economy At Sydney
PHD in Political Economy
Master of Political Economy
Centre for Future Work
Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ)
Climate Justice Research Centre (UTS)
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Shortlist for the 2021 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize
Uneven and Combined State Capitalism: Towards a Research Agenda
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An extremely lively and promising pluri-disciplinary research agenda has coalesced around the rubric state capitalism, demonstrating its potential for focusing scholarly efforts on an important set of transformations in the morphology of present-day capitalism, and particularly on the changing role of the state. As such, it deserves the attention of critical political economists. Yet, state capitalism as a categorical label is far from perfect. In a previous contribution to this blog based on a survey of the scholarly and policy-making literature, we noted significant theoretical and methodological difficulties in deploying the category state capitalism, and concluded that much work remains to turn it from an umbrella term – harsher commentators might even say a mere buzzword or slogan – into a powerful heuristic tool capable of helping us make sense of the changing political geographies of capital and of the polymorphism of state intervention.
We contributed to this task by offering a theoretically oriented and programmatic intervention in an (open access) article recently published in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. We bring analytical clarity to the field of state capitalism studies by offering a rigorous definition of its object of investigation, and by demonstrating how the category state capitalism can be productively construed as a means of problematising and critically interrogating the current aggregate expansion of the state's role as promoter, supervisor, and owner of capital across the spaces of the world capitalist economy, and especially the combined expansion of state-capital hybrids (including sovereign wealth funds, state enterprises, policy and development banks) and the concomitant development of muscular forms of statism (encompassing industrial policy, spatial development strategies, and economic nationalism).
We develop the category state capitalism by firmly locating it within a set of logical relations with other fundamental political economic categories, such as the capitalist state and capital accumulation, instead of juxtaposing it to other (conventional) varieties of capitalism. Drawing upon materialist state theory, we argue that state capitalism is an immanent potentiality, an impulse which is contained in the form of the capitalist state and built into its genetic code. This invites reflection as to what factors lead to the actualisation of this potentiality at the current historical juncture. This double theoretical move allows understanding the current advent of state capitalism as a process of self-transformation of the state as it politically mediates the historical-geographical mutations in the material forms of production of (relative) surplus-value on a world scale. Simply put, rather than the negation of an abstract model of free-market capitalism, or the rise of a nationally scaled and relatively coherent variant of capitalism, we posit contemporary state capitalism as a process of restructuring of the capitalist state, including in its liberal form.
Importantly, we show that this process of state restructuring is not merely a historically contingent form of reconstruction of the capitalist state. It is determined by secular transformations in the materiality of surplus-value production, such as the consolidation of new international divisions of labour driven by automation and labour-saving technologies, secular stagnation, the multiplication of surplus populations, and the extension of speculative financial activities, which we explore in the article. Our argument is that the political mediation of these capitalist transformations and their crisis tendencies has both been predicated upon, and has resulted in, four tendencies towards state capitalist impulses: a 'productivist', 'absorptive', 'stabilising', and 'disciplinary' state capitalist impulses (see Figure).
Characterising the nature of this process of state restructuring at the present historical juncture not only allows substantiating claims that the new state capitalism is qualitatively different from previous modalities of state capitalism, it also opens up space for a theoretical reflection concerning the relation between present-day state capitalist impulses and other forms of statecraft (such as neoliberalism), as well as concerning the general place and role of the state in the uneven and combined development of contemporary capitalism: What if contemporary state capitalism signals a permanent transformation in the form and nature of the capitalist state, or the beginning of a phase of capitalist development where states centralise and concentrate increasing amounts of capital?
Analytically, and while much remains to be done to fully reconstruct a theory of the contemporary advent of state capitalism, the programmatic agenda we call 'uneven and combined state capitalism' focuses our attention on the interweaving of spatialised social relations underpinning and connecting the various repertoires of state action, as a means to scrutinise contemporary state capitalism as a variegated and dynamic world-historical totality. This also holds implications for research engaged in the comparison of different instantiations of state capitalism, which it reorients from a focus on analytical model-building towards greater self-reflexivity with respect to methodological and theoretical choices and their irreducibly political nature. This in turn opens space for greater emphasis on what Ian Bruff calls 'the politics rather than merely the analytics of comparison'. For instance, it encourages us to make explicit and legible the political-geographical imaginaries that underpin the act of comparison; it pushes us to reflect on (what passes as) the normal separation between the state qua public and the private sphere in capitalism (without the 'state' qualifier), and on the normative orientations of these assumptions; it also encourages us to become more attuned to some of the blindspots of state capitalism studies, interrogating, for example, the absence of class in contemporary debates (as noted by Nathan Sperber) and the invisibilisation of working class struggles.
Our argument has implications for how we understand the (geo)political repercussions of state capitalism. Uneven and combined state capitalism is unlikely to lead to patterns of institutional and political convergence or divergence, which have been central lenses in state capitalism studies and discussions of changing world orders (as, for instance, in the recent books of Robert Boyer and Branko Milanovic). State capitalism may well beget state capitalism, but the future of the global political economy will not be one where a 'model' has prevailed over another. Such future is more likely to be characterised as a sort of 'polycentric restructuring' (to use Jamie Peck's expression) of the landscapes of state capitalism, catalysed by the dialectical and cumulative unfolding of more muscular state prerogatives and the proliferation of state-capital hybrids across territory and scale, via recombinant and contradictory pathways fraught with class, geopolitical, and ideological tensions.
Finally, future research may further scrutinise the imbrication of contemporary state capitalism in processes of capitalist restructuring and geographical remaking in the post-COVID-19 environment. An important issue is the extent to which various forms of struggle and resistance from workers and populations rendered surplus will shape the future of state capitalism. For instance, labour and civil society organisations are increasingly calling for governments to expand their role as owners of capital. This includes calls for Green New Deals, vast democratic state ownership, or the creation of social wealth funds. Will these demands push state capitalism in a more progressive direction?
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Author: Ilias Alami
Ilias Alami is a postdoctoral researcher at Maastricht University. Prior to joining Maastricht University, he taught international political economy, globalisation and development at the University of Manchester, UK. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of the political economy of money and finance, development and international capital flows, the geographies of global finance, materialist state theory, and race/class/coloniality. He is the author of Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets, which was shortlisted for the British International Studies Association 2020 best book in international political economy award.
Author: Adam D. Dixon
Adam D. Dixon is Associate Professor of Globalization and Development at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He is the Principal Investigator of the research project Legitimacy, Financialization, and Varieties of Capitalism: Understanding Sovereign Wealth Funds in Europe (SWFsEUROPE) a five-year (2018-2022) funded by the European Research Council. His research focuses on globalization, development, state capitalism, and the political economy of sovereign wealth funds.
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Review: High School
— by ADAM DALE —
Ever since Cheech and Chong first toked it up onscreen, we have seen many movies that focus on the wacky situations that drug abuse — specifically marijuana — can get you into. Filmmaker John Stahlberg is making his directorial debut with the comedy "High School" in which he hopes to use his talents to bring a funny and unique story to audiences everywhere.
In "High School," straight-laced senior and soon-to-be valedictorian Henry Burke (Matt Bush) is set to leave high school with an incredibly strong academic record. Besides the occasional confrontation with the second-best student at the school — Sebastian Saleem (Adhir Kalyan), who has been gunning for the coveted title of valedictorian — Henry leads a very peaceful and uneventful existence.
Enter Travis Breaux (Sean Marquette), the always-stoned slacker whose life motto seems to be "don't try hard at anything." Travis, who used to be Henry's best friend when they were kids, reconnects with him after school. In an attempt to get him to relax, Travis gets Henry to indulge in some ganja that has the opposite effect of what was intended. This all turns out to have horrific timing as the school's principal, Dr. Leslie Gordon (Michael Chiklis), is declaring a war on drugs and is starting with immediate drug testing the next morning.
Desperate to not be expelled and lose his scholarship to M.I.T., Henry runs to Travis for help. Travis' idea is to get the entire school high, which would make the drug tests result void. They head to local dealer Psycho Ed (Adrien Brody) and steal his highly potent weed extract called "kif" and succeed in lacing all the schools bake sale brownies with pot derivative. The effects are far worse than planned and as the school begins to go crazy, this duo must work to keep the situation under control while not getting caught. Things go from bad to worse when Psycho Ed realizes his product is missing comes looking for them and wants to be fully reimbursed. Can they possibly pull off this crime, satisfy Psycho Ed and avoid the hound dog gaze of the suspicious Principal, Dr. Leslie Gordon.
As plots of films go, this one is pretty simple and has its moments of charm and hilarity. But when held against other recent popular films of this genre like "Harold & Kumar" and "Pineapple Express" with clever jokes and hilarious scenarios, "High School" doesn't quite give the audience an appropriate buzz. "High School" doesn't embrace the genre as well and many of its gags fall short. The basic premise of the worst-case scenario seems to be overdone here and while you want Henry to pull it off, you are never fully behind this scheme.
Where "High School" truly succeeds is in the performances of its supporting cast, who have some of the best moments in the film. Adrien Brody is the standout character for me, with his paranoid glare and ridiculous hair braids he has one of the wildest performances that I have ever seen him in and a particular running gag where he mimics his pet toad is quite funny. Another great performance is given by Colin Hanks, whose conservative vice principal role also steals the show with every scene he is in. It's a great contrast to see as the effects begin to take hold of him as well. Lastly, Michael Chiklis is nearly unrecognizable in the role — partly due to a comical hairpiece — and he truly embraces his villainous role. Although he was intimidating, I found his character funny.
All in all, the film's ridiculous and predictable storyline is never executed to the fullest and in a time where we have truly hilarious and outlandish films that really deliver, it just reminds us that we have seen better. "High School" never reaches the true vulgar comedy and anarchic level we have come to expect in films of this nature and is therefore underwhelming. So see this film if you like, but don't expect to be getting side cramps from laughing so hard, more like a snicker or a few chuckles.
"High School" is blazing up the big screen now and is rated R for pervasive drug use and language, crude and sexual content and partial nudity.
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Tags: "High School", Adrien Brody, Matt Bush, Michael Chiklis
Posted 03 Jun 2012 by Adam Dale in Posters & Trailers
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Roxette's Single "She's Got Nothing On (But The Radio)" is Out!
Long-awaited Roxette's new single "She's got nothing on (but the radio) can be purchased online from today on. So far, only the digital version is out. The digital single comes with "Wish I Could Fly" live in St. Petersburg, recorded in September.
International release dates may differ a bit, Amazon.co.uk/MP3 lists it for the 9th, some other places for the 10th. The CD single is scheduled for January 28.
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"She's Got Nothing On (But The Radio)" Possible Release Problems?
Very excited to have bought the single from http://www.amazon.co.kuk (£1.69 bargain).
Still nothing on UK iTunes.
Can't wait for the album… not long now!! 4 weeks 4 days!
In The Netherlands you can buy it on Itunes to!
I am concerned it is not on iTunes UK, I cannot understand it at all… EMI UK have some answers to give fo this one!
The price is $3.99 (Argentine pesos), and you get a 26,05MB .wma file. Movistar (the other important cellphone company) has not listed it yet.
i want the single also here in italy!!