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		<title>Nanostories and the Hyper-massification of Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no culture where there is no acceptance of certain final intellectual positions to which a dispute may be referred. There is no culture where economic relations are not subject to a regulating principle to protect interests involved. There is no culture where aesthetic controversy does not recognize the necessity of justifying the work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xugro.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6905317&amp;post=297&amp;subd=xugro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Piracy, Past and Present II: Content Pirates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follow-up to my last post about piracy, I wanted to write a bit more about the pirating of content, which has a history that&#8217;s as long and storied as seafaring piracy. The concepts of copyright and intellectual property are fairly new in jurisprudence. I won&#8217;t give a detailed history here, but rather speak [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xugro.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6905317&amp;post=289&amp;subd=xugro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Piracy, Past and Present</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piracy has enjoyed a surge of attention in recent months, especially this past week as pirates based in Somalia unsuccessfully attempted to capture a US cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama. Three pirates were killed and another is being held in custody while the heroic captain of the vessel, Richard Phillips, is free after a hellish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xugro.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6905317&amp;post=275&amp;subd=xugro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What kind of dog is this?</title>
		<link>http://xugro.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/what-kind-of-dog-is-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We adopted a dog from a rescue shelter last August and named him Neus (&#8220;snow&#8221; in Catalan). He was described as a Pit Bull / Terrier mix. While he may have looked like one at the time (esp. a Boston Terrier), he&#8217;s grown to almost 60 lbs. We think he has some Border Collie (always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xugro.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6905317&amp;post=258&amp;subd=xugro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dissertation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my dissertation&#8217;s all done and turned in, despite the false start I had the day I submitted it. I&#8217;ve decided to publish the abstract online (full text available upon request) just in case there&#8217;s the off chance someone would actually read it. There&#8217;s more of a chance that someone would read it by stumbling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xugro.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6905317&amp;post=248&amp;subd=xugro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Killzone 2, Fascism and Morality</title>
		<link>http://xugro.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/killzone-2-fascism-and-morality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xugro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out with the old, in with the&#8230;old? Killzone 2 is a fascinating game on many levels. It is graphically stunning, and the gameplay is intense and addictive. Yet the game&#8217;s story is perhaps the most interesting aspect of all. It performs a complex intervention into contemporary geopolitics by problematizing moral clarity in times of war. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xugro.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6905317&amp;post=238&amp;subd=xugro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>False start.</title>
		<link>http://xugro.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/false-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A seriously false start.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xugro.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6905317&amp;post=232&amp;subd=xugro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meshuggah, or the Art of Alienation</title>
		<link>http://xugro.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/meshuggah-or-the-art-of-alienation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xugro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A discussion of the Swedish math metal band Meshuggah. Includes links, images, and discussion of their aesthetic of violence.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xugro.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6905317&amp;post=188&amp;subd=xugro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supporting Caste</title>
		<link>http://xugro.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/supporting-caste/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xugro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate music reviews. They usually don&#8217;t tell you anything about the music. Rather, they&#8217;re more interested in onanistic and often obscure comparisons that are more about the reviewer than the album. There&#8217;s always a line like &#8220;think Van Halen and Billy Corgan&#8217;s illegitimate lovechild screaming alongside pre-No Doubt Gwen Stefani combined with the drumming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xugro.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6905317&amp;post=166&amp;subd=xugro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Gloss on Beck&#8217;s &#8220;Loser&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://xugro.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/a-gloss-on-becks-loser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey In the beginning, we were all nonhuman primates. And in that blessed age, I was not as great as the apes. I was smaller, less attractive, and thus less prone to mating. So I turned to drugs, but was not as financially fortunate as others. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xugro.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6905317&amp;post=126&amp;subd=xugro&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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