Del.icio.us links for January 28th through February 2nd:
- -ZX-: Super 90’s Emo/Hardcore Post – Now here’s a great little treat for all you real emo/hardcore fans out there (myself included). I found this on the Collective Zine forum, it’s a huge list of download’s that someone kindly put up featuring hundreds of old emo bands from Baby Harp Seal, Across Five Aprils and many many more. I am slowly working my way through the list and there is some real outstanding stuff on here. So get on it.
Tags: emo music downloads - Smart Pop Books — Holy Signifier, Batman! – Batman, as one of the most iconic and enduring of comic book heroes, is ultimately nothing more than a bundle of images that have proven themselves to be far more valuable and compelling than any storyline, movie, or book of essays on the character. Batman is a Pez dispenser; he is a bat-shaped belt buckle. Batman is not a hard-ass vigilante, nor is he a duly deputized crime fighter; he is a stamped silhouette on a box of cereal.
Tags: batman popart linguistictheory comics icons logos symbols signs camp - The people’s historian – Howard was an inspiration to all of us on the left, especially in the times when we were fighting difficult battles and not winning many. His writings taught us that the resistance to oppression lives on–and that the struggles of ordinary people have the potential to change the world.They also taught us something else: that every high point of struggle is only possible because of the smaller battles that came before it–ultimately, that it matters what individuals do now to oppose injustice and to organize for the future.
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