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		<title>O Canada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Harper government has suggested this week that it might take a look at revising the lyrics of &#8220;O Canada&#8221; in order to make them more gender neutral. Specifically, they are looking at replacing Robert Stanley Weir’s line &#8220;in all thy sons command&#8221; (to my recollection, this line is often rendered as &#8220;in all our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulaitken.com/2010/03/04/o-canada/</link>
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		<title>New Blog: The Night Shift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends of friends:

The Night Shift is a guide for those of you who are lost: for the thinkers amongst you  who are frustrated by a lack of progress in creating a just society and  for the practical amongst you who are at a loss as to what you should  actually be doing. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulaitken.com/2010/02/19/new-blog-the-night-shift/</link>
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		<title>Commonwealth: Part 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross posted at Critical Stew
Part 5: Beyond Capital?
5.1 Terms of the Economic Transition
Neoliberal Zombies
The joining of neoliberalism and unilateralism in the latter half of the twentieth century is illustrative of the problems faced by capital in contending with the emergence of biopolitical production. In fact, the current crisis in neoliberalism is not due to unilateralism&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulaitken.com/2010/02/01/commonwealth-part-5/</link>
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		<title>Commonwealth: Part 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out Part 3 here.
Cross posted at Critical Stew.
Part 4: Empire Returns
4.1 Brief History of a  Failed Coup D&#8217;État
Let the Dead Bury the Dead
For Hardt and Negri, the definitive event of the 21st century so far has been the failure of unilateralism. They see the failure of the US to gain imperial supremacy as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulaitken.com/2010/01/21/commonwealth-part-4/</link>
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		<title>Commonwealth: Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alex and I have decided to embark on a collaborative project to ultimately critically engage with Hardt and Negri&#8217;s Commonwealth. He has already posted a summary of Part 1 at Jajuna and Critical Stew, and we&#8217;ll each be taking alternate sections. These will spawn a book review that will aim to accomplish two things (1) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulaitken.com/2010/01/11/commonwealth-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Commonwealth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alex has begun his summary of Hardt and Negri&#8217;s latest work Commonwealth. My response, in the comments, is this:
1) This notion that “contemporary capitalism enables an ontology that is at least partially grounded in the common,” as you note raises some interesting possibilities for seeing alternatives to what, if we listen too much to Zizek, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulaitken.com/2010/01/03/commonwealth/</link>
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		<title>Chris Hedges &#8220;Globalization Goes Bankrupt&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had the pleasure of seeing Chris Hedges speak last week for the release of his new book  Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. His talk was sermonesque in quality as he spoke of the global financial system and its relationship to mainstream media&#8217;s reliance on spectacle. Invoking DeBord and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulaitken.com/2009/09/24/chris-hedges-globalization-goes-bankrupt/</link>
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		<title>Michael Geist on the Canadian Copyright Reform Consultation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Geist notes the rock and hard place situation in which Canadians who desire a sane copyright law find themselves. The strategies employed by powerful lobby groups in order to shut out the voices of educators and consumers of creative works are of particular interest. Those in support of strict copyright laws, including &#8220;three strikes&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulaitken.com/2009/09/08/michael-geist-on-the-canadian-copyright-reform-consultation/</link>
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		<title>For MA Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For students of the ICS MA Research Methods seminar &#8220;Critical Approaches to Internet Research,&#8221; April 22 &#38; 24, 2009
The Seminar Notes include links to the Google and Wikipedia documentaries.
2009 Seminar Notes 1
2009 Seminar Notes 2
PowerPoint Slides
Murali, et al. on the impact of FUTON bias
My thanks to all who attended, I hope it was as  beneficial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulaitken.com/2009/04/26/for-ma-students/</link>
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		<title>Death Magnetic: Better, Shorter, Cut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just too much. Metallica can&#8217;t not cause an uproar when it comes to filesharing.  A Swedish writer wrote on their new album Death Magnetic, but he downloaded an altered version by someone who had decided to pick his favourite parts of the album and condense it to make it more &#8220;listenable.&#8221;  Fair enough.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulaitken.com/2008/09/15/death-magnetic-better-shorter-cut/</link>
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