Dispatches from the War Against Oblivion
by Christy Rodgers / August 26th, 2010
Here's the news: a specter is still haunting Europe (which has, since Marx's time, expanded its geographic boundaries and morphed into the "global North" in the age of transnational capital). Communism as Marx envisioned it (at least before the spontaneous eruption of the Paris Commune), it is not—or not exactly. Nor is it really a single, unified, totalizing specter of any kind. But the North is haunted. From its fringes to its core, it is beset by ghosts. And the faster and more frenzied its race, via technologically mediated existence, ever-increasing wealth disparities, and compensatory empty spectacle, toward erosion of meaningful identity and the perfection of alienation in human life, the more these ghosts multiply and crowd the edges of its political space and invade the minds of its bewildered inhabitants.
"Haunting" is a fashionable literary term that is often used to describe how a thing that has become absent can retain some effects of its former presence; it has ramifications in personal psychology (neurosis can be seen as a kind of haunting) and in some of the strains of contemporary critical thought that issued from or have been influenced by that questionable source.
But it is apt for describing a socio-political phenomenon as well: all systems of rule seek to make their holds more complete by attempting to erase any evidence that they were not eternally pre-existing, benign, and inevitable. The haunting of the human mind, and the corners of empire, by ideas of prior (or potential future) states of being that contradict this idea, and the effects that this haunting has on our individual and collective life, are fundamental aspects of our contemporary experience.
Literature has some nice examples of haunting as a political trope: like the struggles of Animal Farm's denizens to recall the original wording of their manifesto of liberation as it is invisibly and relentlessly revised by the new elite, or the thousands of vanished corpses, evidence of a government massacre, that only one inhabitant of the mythical town of Macondo in One Hundred Years of Solitude can ever seem to recall having seen.
The EZLN or Zapatista resistance movement that sprang from invisibility into world view from the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas on January 1, 1994, to protest the consequences of the new neo-liberal world order (represented by Mexico's official absorption on that date into the North American Free Trade zone) has now existed publicly for more than fifteen years. Its international (and Mexican) profile has ebbed and flowed in that time. Arguments about its current relevance beyond a small, isolated population in rural Mexico flare up from time to time in left-wing discourse. It might seem that the vast, world-reshaping events of the last fifteen years have relegated it, along with many other popular uprisings, armed or not, to a relatively minor role in determining how the 21st century world will be experienced by the billions now entering it.
Why then, would it be of interest, even pleasurable, to read a book-length analysis of this movement from the seemingly even more marginal perspective of its "poetics," its creation of symbols and messages and imaginative use of them to support and maintain its political project?
Here is one reason: this is a place where the whole evocative issue of the haunting of the North, and what it means on a personal and a societal level, comes in.
A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency, a new book by Jeff Conant (AK Press, 2010) is, in fact, laudable for a number of reasons, but one of the suggestive ideas it contains is that the EZLN's imaginatively expressed and widely disseminated communiqués, and in fact its whole political project, were designed to counter the factitious aura of inevitability of neo-liberal capitalism (and to forestall the extinction that it threatened for Mexico's indigenous communities) rather than to overturn or replace it.
Seen through its poetics, the Zapatista project is fundamentally one of re-membering and re-articulating (as opposed to the dismembering, disarticulating project of capital towards its alternatives) other ways than the dominant one. And that work is performed through the carefully crafted symbolism of the Zapatistas' public statements, actions, and displays. One of the resonant names they give their struggle is "the war against oblivion." In Spanish as in English, oblivion means both unconsciousness and non-existence.
The book is a substantive, scholarly, but never tendentious or obscure look at Zapatista as a kind of literature, or more comprehensively, a created mythos, that serves to inspire and catalyze diffuse efforts to counter the steamroller effects of capitalism's post-Cold War play for full-spectrum global dominance.
Jeff Conant examines everything from the Zapatistas' chief spokesman Subcomandante Marcos' storytelling to the little masked Zapatista dolls in the markets of the Chiapanecan tourist center San Cristobal from this perspective, and brings in an erudite and historically-grounded understanding of the umbilical link between revolutionary social movements and symbol-making.
While he presents the complicated relationship between poetics and struggle in the Zapatista project with a full awareness of the dangers of romanticizing that it entails, and deals fairly with critiques of its limitations, there are still one or two questionable contentions here, and one of them is in the somewhat cavalier use of the term "public relations" to describe what is being done.
PR and Its Discontents: Public relations grew from the foundational idea that not only are humans not primarily rational beings but that their faint stirrings of rationality ought not to be encouraged—rather their fundamental irrationality and apparently infinite selfishness should be massaged and managed by a self-designated elite that constantly feeds them with the subconscious cues necessary to keep them submissive to it.
PR, other words, was designed expressly to keep people from knowing not just what they know, but what they are. It is not a tool that is well-suited to the purposes of widespread consciousness-raising to which Conant would like to see it put here. This is another subject of perennial debate on the left: to what degree can the master's tools serve other purposes than the master's? But at the very least, you can't really put the public relations genie back in the bottle by simply inserting the "right sort" of symbolism, one that fits our political ideals. Real consciousness-raising, as Marx realized, comes out of direct experience, and is grounded in material conditions. This is why even a revolutionary poetics can trend towards emptiness when it is distanced from its source in direct experience.
And the limitations of Zapatista poetics as a transformative tool, whether you call it public relations or not, may have to do precisely with the meaning of symbolic representation in different cultures. Conant's thesis is that the Zapatista "brand" does not alienate the subject from herself and her environment, like corporate branding, but functions to reconnect them. But such reconnection may only really occur in a meaningful way within a culture where symbol has not already been so successfully divorced from substance, where fetishism (the investiture of material objects or symbols with real, living presence) is not discredited as mystification (see "magical thinking" or the "fetishism of commodities") or a dubious means of personal gratification but has an unbroken historical tradition as socially valuable and accepted fact.
In a ceremony described near the beginning of the book, seven objects are invoked and used to invest what would otherwise be merely a simple oath of allegiance into a binding statement of collective identity. This identity is not just informed by its relationship to what in our culture are called "abstract ideals:" peace, justice, truth, democracy; it is as inseparable from them as they are from the objects that are called to represent them. And it is the objects' very familiarity, locality and participation in the audience's long-standing traditions (the Mexican flag, corn, earth, for example) that gives this ceremony much of its power of connection. The seven object-ideals are then linked to the seven indigenous peoples joined in the Zapatista cause. The transformation is multi-layered and complete—for that constituency.
Their production of such vibrant and integral symbolism has indisputably been useful in profoundly transforming the lives and material conditions of the Zapatista bases. And more diffusively, their ideas and images have recurred in other contexts, many of which Jeff Conant cites, where opposition to predatory capitalism coalesces.
But, for the sake of argument, let's say you are a conscientious, even socially engaged, but relatively comfortable reader who lives far from the mountains of southeastern Mexico, enshrouded in the Cartesian world of the North, body separated from mind, individual set against collective, society alienated from nature. Ten generations of your ancestors emerged from within that world, and reified it. You cannot significantly alter your reality merely by consuming someone else's symbolism. The Zapatistas' decades-long struggle for dignified survival, a real, daily path for them, dwindles in your world to a doll on your shelf, a poster on your wall. Your material existence is little if at all affected by it, and though the conscious reminder serves as a goad to some form of increasingly intermittent sympathy, as time goes by and, despite your efforts and the efforts of many others, no profound alteration of power relations or material conditions occurs in your private world, your immediate community or your society, the symbols of social transformation with which you may surround yourself are gradually (although never entirely) emptied of their agency—they become like ghosts.
An opening epigraph to A Poetics of Resistance comes from the Nasa people of Colombia: "Words and action outside of the spirit of community are death." Well then, we who were raised in and still live surrounded by the all-encompassing reality of Western Civilization, with its now "infinite number of ways to die" as one Zapatista puts it, are ourselves the ghosts and speak and act from the land of the dead. Because the spirit of community referred to here is as alien to us as the moon. The idea of "community" is a perfect example of Western conceptual haunting—a word that has been emptied of its significance in this society (the faith "community," the black "community," the online "community"—what do these mean?) but is used repeatedly because the remnants of a longed-for, though absent, reality still cling to it.
Here's an example of how our popular culture captures conceptual haunting—by using the metaphor of real haunting. In contemporary horror movies like The Sixth Sense or The Others, the twist is that sympathetic, protagonistic characters with whom we are meant to identify, and who we actually believe are alive for most of the movie—occupying apartments or houses, having jobs, taking care of children—turn out to be dead. The terminally alienated are the dead, though they move and think and believe they are alive. Indigenous cultures recognize this difference. While their symbolizing is invested with organic, breathing life, ours has been emptied of it, and haunts us with our own longings for un-alienated presence and our confusion as to our own status among the living or the dead.
The Postmodern Romance: The other question I would raise has to do with what the author calls the Zapatistas' "postmodernism," which he maintains is a source of their vitality and continued relevance. He underscores their refusal to embrace a single narrative, a dominant ideology, a line of thought or march.
While postmodernism may possibly be a term as emptied by its use as "community," it is possible to identify some qualifying precepts. The postmodern consensus is that rationalism and the Enlightenment, from which, among other things, Marxism and the idea of universally applicable qualities derive, are dead, and this is basically a good thing. Postmodern critical thought helped expose the toxicity of Western hegemony disguised as universal enlightenment, but in doing so it also left us with the vacancy of meaning, the incoherency at the heart of all communication, a triumph, not of the imagination, but of a kind of undifferentiated linguistic universe, the heat death in which humanism and rationalism dissolve.
In their place we are given the attractive Zapatista idea of "one no and many yeses," and their struggle for indigenous rights becomes a call for "the recognition of difference." But this is the conundrum at the very heart of any postmodern struggle: how can you call for rights that must be universally recognized to be meaningful at all with one breath and decry universals as oppressive and essentialist with the next? What standards will then apply? How will they be established? If your attitude towards contestation for power is to reject it, what means will you use to make potent those demands without which power concedes nothing?
It seems that another ghostly concept that continues to haunt the postmodern, post-Marxist world is the old Enlightenment idea that human history is actually progressive in a meaningful way: towards more human dignity, more harmony, more peaceful cooperation and so forth. This has produced the truism that no matter what else happens, as long as organized protest and resistance movements exist anywhere, they are unquestionable signs that we are still on that path.
But what if this is not actually true? What then would prevent "difference" from merely being division, fragmentation, incoherence, weakness?
What rescues the Zapatista communications project from these conundra is the real value and necessity of their war against oblivion, whether waged by indigenous peoples, industrial and technological workers or world-weary intelligentsia fighting against a persistent sense of death-in-life on the fringes of an oblivious dominant society.
Oblivion is the place where even the memory and the dream of human equity and solidarity, not to mention vibrant interdependence with the natural world, are gone. It is where "Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia," where all are well-trained dogs who need no whip, where it is not only "easier to imagine the end of the world than a world without capitalism," as the Marxist literary critic Frederic Jameson said, but impossible to imagine that world at all. Where the ghosts of possibility no longer haunt the living.
In fact, another good reason to take the time to read this book, besides simply enjoying the wealth of vivid imagination and eloquent analysis it contains, is that the kind of long-form thinking this fifteen-years-in-the-making work presents and requires is itself essential to the war against oblivion it correctly understands as a project fundamental to the survival of alternative social movements in the 21st century. Oblivion is not merely a function of controlled space but of eliminated time as well.
The Zapatistas, as a force beyond the autonomous communities in Chiapas, remain bound by the postmodern conundrum, facing the abyss of marginalization that radical anti-authoritarian politics, however visionary and necessary, always risks collapsing into. And the communities themselves, where the real gains of Zapatismo are evident, still live on the knife-edge of extinction confronting land-based peoples around the globe. But the war against oblivion in which they played, and continue to play, a key role, rages on, in every house, on every street. It is one struggle in which there is a place for all of us, through which even the most alienated can regain a place in the nexus that sustains us, that brings us back into life.
Jeff Conant plays his part in that struggle admirably by giving us this thoughtful and impassioned book.
Christy Rodgers' writings have appeared on Dissident Voice, Truthout, Alternet, Upside Down World, Counterpunch, and Dark Mountain Project. She lives in San Francisco and blogs at What If?: Tales, transformations, possibilities. Read other articles by Christy.
This article was posted on Thursday, August 26th, 2010 at 7:59am and is filed under Book Review, Mexico, Resistance, Revolution.
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MichaelKenny said on August 26th, 2010 at 9:47am #
I don't see what this has to do with Europe. Practically nobody has ever heard of Chiapas, next to none could tell what country it's in or find it on a map and most would take a guess that Zapatista was part of the World Cup team, since they've heard his name somewhere recently. To that the more intellectual ones would retort that that is because he's prime minister of Spain. Conciousness would be marginally higher in the latter country, but not by very much. Europeans might get worked up if the US wanted them to send soldiers there but beyond that, nobody in Europe is being haunted by Mexican ghosts, friendly or unfriendly!
Don Hawkins said on August 26th, 2010 at 10:40am #
PR, other words, was designed expressly to keep people from knowing not just what they know, but what they are.
Not me Christy and I went to your web site will send ideas from time to time. Am I completely immune from being kept not knowing what I know, and what I are not yet maybe never but I have these glasses and man don't wear them to long what a headache but worth it.
teafoe2 said on August 26th, 2010 at 3:05pm #
very interesting review. I wonder what John Ross or/and Roberto Vargas might make of it and Conant's book.
Let me note that I'm one of those Ms Rodgers describes: I do have a Zapatista poster on my wall and a Zapatista doll made of yarn attached to a print of Guernica on another wall. As a piece of art, the poster in my judgment ranks up there with Picasso's masterpiece, and with Rivera's view of Kahlo's back framed by lilies on the wall opposite.
Every time I glance over at that poster, I'm astounded all over again. What could possibly lie behind such an improbable image?
But I'm afraid I'll never really understand it. Some things are just too much the product of a particular environment to ever be fully appreciated by those who will never find themselves part of that particularity.
The review is interesting. Maybe on a second reading I'll find something I can use here in Reagan Country? aka Arnoldlandia?
Maybe my take on the Zapatistas is jaundiced due to my original over-enthusiasm; I did jump on it as soon as I saw those red bandana-covered faces on TV, and read "The Sup"s early "communiques". I bought a pile of Anderson Valley Advertisers and gave them to friends. My rumbera amiga Miraglos refused to accept any reading material, on the grounds it was just more of the same, will come to nothing in the end.
Miraglos is very hip, knows all the lyrics & arrangements of all the "salsa" classics & all the Yoruba chants. Bet if she saw this poster she'd find a way to beat me out of it:)
Art is nice, makes life richer. Sometimes it may even contribute to changing something, but don't bet on it.
Mr Kenny, I pity you, mired in that narrow Eurocentric outlook of yours.
Mr K, there is great art and great culture native to every continent on the planet, with the possible exception of Antarctica.
For instance, I'd guess you are familiar with "Der Glasperlenspiel", a turn-of-the-(previous)century novel which speculates about the invention of an art form that includes/encompasses all existing European art forms, plus Indian Yoga?
It may interest you to realize that while Hesse was letting his imagination roam, enslaved Cubanos had created an art form which combined: music, vocal and instrumental; dance; classic Spanish poetry, including the classic ten-line stanza known as Decima; and highly original visual arts, into a blend usually referred to nowadays as Rumba Folklorico.
Variants of the form include Yambu, Rumba Colombia, Guaguanco, and a relatively recent jazz-influenced style called Guarapachangeo.
Check it out, you'll be glad you did:)


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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) designed and built an instrument called NAUTILUS to provide new measurement capabilities unlike those available at other laboratories to measure nuclear, cosmo/geo-chemical, and electronic materials.
Evan Groopman (left), a research physicist and Dr. David Willingham (right), a research chemist and head of the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Section, gather in front of the NAUTILUS instrument in the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., Sept. 5. (U.S. Navy photo by Nicholas E. M. Pasquini)
Evan Groopman, a research physicist, inserts Nuclear Signatures Inter-laboratory Measurement Evaluation Program (NUSIMEP-9) uranium particles on a carbon planchette into the NAUTILUS to analyze the uranium isotopic composition in the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., Sept. 5. (U.S. Navy photo by Nicholas E. M. Pasquini)
At the end of last year, NRL participated in an international round-robin exercise, called Nuclear Signatures Inter-laboratory Measurement Evaluation Program (NUSIMEP-9), sponsored by the European Commission (Nuclear Safety and Security Division) to measure microscopic particulate samples with "unknown" uranium isotope ratios.
"NRL recently received the final report from the international round-robin exercise and found that the Laboratory performed quite well, correctly identifying all of the "unknown" isotopic compositions," said David Willingham, a research chemist and head of the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Section. "In this case, NRL used a globally unique mass spectrometer called NAUTILUS to perform these measurements, as part of the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Section's participation in the NUSIMEP-9 sample analysis exercise."
The NUSIMEP-9 test samples were prepared to mimic environmental sampling/nuclear Safeguards missions, such as those performed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The exercise was conducted for the IAEA's Network of Analytical Laboratories (NWAL), of which NRL is not a member; however, NRL does collaborate with the laboratories to develop better uranium-bearing particle analyses.
The IAEA is responsible for deterring the proliferation of nuclear weapons by detecting early the misuse of nuclear material or technology, and by providing credible assurances that states are honoring their safeguards obligations. The analysis of nuclear material samples and environmental samples taken by IAEA inspectors is an essential component of this undertaking.
Twenty-two other laboratories were involved, many of which perform these types of measurements as their core mission (e.g., IAEA) with their instruments dedicated solely for these types of measurements.
"The NAUTILUS is much more flexible than this single type of measurement – we use it to analyze a wide variety of material compositions, including nuclear, electronic, and extraterrestrial materials," said Evan Groopman, a research physicist. "We are happy with the results of this exercise because it demonstrates that our up-and-coming group can both build a novel instrument for the Navy and apply it to a wide variety of problems, performing as well or better than laboratories that exclusively perform a single type of analysis using commercial instrumentation."
A key element of the safeguards system is the physical inspection of nuclear facilities by IAEA inspectors. States declare in considerable technical detail the types and quantities of nuclear material they possess. Among other verification measures, IAEA inspectors may take nuclear material samples from various points of the nuclear fuel cycle and collect environmental samples by swiping surfaces at various locations during the conduct of a verification activity.
These samples, which may be in solid, liquid, or gaseous form, are then subject to sophisticated analysis by IAEA scientists. The scientists focus on the isotopic make-up of uranium and plutonium contained in the samples, unaware of the country from which they were obtained. The analytical results provide a powerful tool for supporting conclusions as to the correctness and completeness of states' nuclear material declarations and help to inform the IAEA's evaluation of whether a state is complying with its safeguards obligations.
In carrying out this work, the IAEA laboratories coordinate and cooperate with a wider Network of Analytical Laboratories (NWAL), comprising an additional 18 laboratories located in nine different IAEA Member States. The Environment Sample Laboratory in Seibersdorf, Austria receives and screens all swipe samples but then shares the analytical workload with its NWAL partners.
The final report from the NUSIMEP-9 exercise can be found, here: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/interlaboratory-comparison/nusimep-9
About the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
NRL is a scientific and engineering command dedicated to research that drives innovative advances for the Navy and Marine Corps from the seafloor to space and in the information domain. NRL headquarters is located in Washington, D.C., with major field sites in Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, Key West, Florida, and Monterey, California, and employs approximately 2,500 civilian scientists, engineers and support personnel.
By Nicholas E. M. Pasquini, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications
Editor Contact: Daniel Parry, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Public Affairs
SOURCE U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
http://www.nrl.navy.mil


Deutsch LA Hires Mathias Appelblad
Hires, Wins & Business
Agency names its first Digital ECD
Deutsch LA has hired Mathias Appelblad, known for his work on "IKEA's Dream Kitchen for Everyone," as its first digital executive creative director.
"Our goal at Deutsch LA is to be the best agency in the world, and to do that we also need to be the best digital agency in the world," says Mark Hunter, Chief Creative Officer at Deutsch LA. "A digital creative leader of Mathias' quality and pedigree will take us one step closer to realizing that goal."
In this new role Mathias will oversee Deutsch LA's expanding digital creative work, and bridge the creative and technology teams at the agency. "Mathias is a digital star and and innovator," says Winston Binch, Deutsch LA's Chief Digital Officer. "He's created and produced some of the most remarkable digital anywhere over the last ten years. We're thrilled to welcome him to our growing team."
Mathias joins Deutsch LA from BBDO NY, where he had been Executive Creative Director and Director of Innovation since 2010. He also served on BBDO NY's board of directors. Prior to his tenure at BBDO, Mathias worked as Interactive Creative Director at Swedish agency Forsman & Bodenfors, which he helped become one of the world's top digital agencies. In 2007 the Gunn Report named F&B the #3 most awarded digital agency worldwide.
"Deutsch LA has arguably created some of the most talked about SuperBowl ads in recent time. What Mike, Mark and Winston have done over the past years to set the agency up to do wonderful, useful and meaningful things in the digital space is inspiring," Mathias says. "I'm honored, humbled and excited to embark on this new adventure with Deutsch LA and all their clients. I can't wait to dig in."
During his 15 years in the industry, Mathias has created, worked on and led iconic work for brands such as AT&T, FedEx, HBO, GE, Gillette, Volvo Cars and IKEA. Many of his campaigns have gone on to win several of the industry's highest accolades. His campaign for the Volvo XC90 garnered a Cyber Grand Prix at Cannes. And "Dream Kitchen for Everyone" was named one of the 10 best digital pieces of the decade by the One Show. Mathias is also a Creativity 50 honoree.
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Culture Crash: Spider-Man's Back Once Again
The new film release, "Spider-Man: No Way Home" is a massive blockbuster hit. We discuss what makes these crossover movies such a success and what's coming up next in the Marvel universe.
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Published: January 2, 2022 by VPR Producer
Welcome to Culture Crash, where we examine American culture – what's new and old in entertainment…
Last month, Spider-Man: No way Home blew its expectations out of the water, opening to a staggering $260 million in the U.S., good enough for the 3rd biggest domestic opening weekend of all time, despite the pandemic surging due to the Omicron variant.
A secret to the movies success? People love a crossover event. For example, I have to be honest, I'm not much of a Marvel fan. I haven't seen Black Widow yet, I haven't been watching Hawkeye... I could go on. And yet, I went to see No Way Home on opening day. Why? Not so much because i was dying to catch up with the MCU, but rather because I love Spider-Man.
More specifically, I love the previous Spider-Man series, the ones starring Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. And no spoilers here, it was right in the trailers: No Way Home saw the return of many of those series' most iconic villains.
Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer – Sony Pictures Entertainment
The big headlines were that Willem Dafoe is back as Green Goblin, Alfred Molina is back as Doc Ock, and Jamie Foxx is back as Electro. There were even rumors that Maguire and/or Garfield may be returning as their versions of Peter Parker, but again, no spoilers here either way.
Still, that excitement: the returning villains, the swirling rumors, they made No Way Home feel like a must-see opening weekend movie. The key to my heart and countless others my age is to bring back reminders of those previous Spider-universes. It's a comic book special, the crossover event.
And for me at least, it worked. I was thrilled to watch Dafoe and company back in action once again, and it gave me an excuse to marathon some of my favorite movies.
But even as someone who admittedly loved No Way Home, I can also see myself growing a little tired of the schtick. Already, Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton are going to reprise their roles as Batman in The Flash, and the success of No Way Home means I can see the previous-series crossover stunt continuing to flourish.
I'm just not sure the dopamine hit will continue to hit the same way if series continue to bring back old stars in this fashion.
But in Hollywood, I'm sure they're going to try, for better or worse.
I'm Evan Rook.
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Culture Crash 22-01: Spider-Man's Back Once Again
Last month, Spider-Man: No way Home blew its expectations out of the water, opening to a staggering $260 million in the U.S., good enough for the 3rd biggest domestic opening weekend of all time, despite the pandemic surging due to the omicron variant. A secret to the movies success? People love a crossover event.
For example, I have to be honest, I'm not much of a Marvel fan. I haven't seen Black Widow yet, I haven't been watching Hawkeye... I could go on. And yet, I went to see No Way Home on opening day. Why? Not so much because i was dying to catch up with the MCU, but rather because I love Spider-Man. More specifically, I love the previous Spider-Man series, the ones starring Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. And no spoilers here, it was right in the trailers: No Way Home saw the return of many of those series' most iconic villains. The big headlines were that Willem Dafoe is back as Green Goblin, Alfred Molina is back as Doc Ock, and Jamie Foxx is back as Electro. There were even rumors that Maguire and/or Garfield may be returning as their versions of Peter Parker, but again, no spoilers here either way.
Still, that excitement: the returning villains, the swirling rumors, they made No Way Home feel like a must-see opening weekend movie. The key to my heart and countless others my age is to bring back reminders of those previous Spider-universes. It's a comic book special, the crossover event. And for me at least, it worked. I was thrilled to watch Dafoe and company back in action once again, and it gave me an excuse to marathon some of my favorite movies. But even as someone who admittedly loved No Way Home, I can also see myself growing a little tired of the schtick. Already, Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton are going to reprise their roles as Batman in The Flash, and the success of No Way Home means I can see the previous-series crossover stunt continuing to flourish. I'm just not sure the dopamine hit will continue to hit the same way if series continue to bring back old stars in this fashion.
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Montebello Estate, Newland Avenue, Newlands: Origianl tree survey drawing , based on Harris, McGarrick and Mellon Land Surveyors drawing (1993), original pen and ink on tracing paper indicating existing trees to be retained, trees to be retained if possible and trees to be removed (senescent. damaged, diseased, and or declared weeds / alien spaces)., Scale 1:200
Art Nouveau architecture on Long Street, Cape Town, 1982
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Merchants, Long Street, Cape Town. One of the oldest buildings on Long Street, the original building at Merchants dates back 350 years and was made [with] slate from Table Mountain. After many iterations through the centuries it survives today as a fine example of Art Nouveau architecture.
The closing down of hotels, Cape Town
Infrastructure, Hotels, Historic buildings, ,
The Rio Grande Hotel, the 11th to close down there in about 10 years and the fourth to be used for the aged. / Witnesses of past grandeur.
Central Cape Town, 1970
Cape Town (South Africa), City planning, Historic buildings, Energy, Architecture
Aerial view of central Cape Town from the Dock Road Power Station towards Table Mountain, 1970.
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Montebello Estate, Newland Avenue, Newlands: landscape schematic plan for council submission - pen and ink drawing on tracing paper, indicating proposed lateriate gravel pathways and parking areas, as well as proposed vegetation, and existing trees to be retained selectively., Scale 1:250
Demolition of the old Cape Town Station, Cape Town, 1968
Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, City planning, Transport
Demolition of the old Cape Town Station, 1968.
Men inspect aluminium house, Cape Town
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A prefabricated aluminium house erected at Nyanga Location was inspected today by officials of the Cape Divisional Council. This picture shows Mr H.M. Pansegrouw, superintendent of Nyanga, and Mr R.S. MacDonald looking at the back of it.
An abandoned building used as a lookout post within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Stone buildings--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Ruined buildings--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
The view through a crooked window in an abandoned building within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Structures like these, are now used as lookout posts for tourists and travellers. Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and were a central part of the work on oral history and mapping in the first years of research.
Central Methodist Mission Church, Cape Town, 1994
Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Architecture, Christianity, Historic buildings
Museum site: the Central Methodist Mission Church in Buitenkant Street. [Exhibition will show signs of the times.]
South African Reserve Bank, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Banking, Commerce, Architecture, Building
Cape Town - S.A. Reserve Bank Building, St George's Street
Macassar Coloured township near Somerset West, Cape Town
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Many families rehoused at the Macassar Coloured township near Somerset West have returned to their squatter lives in the bush, officials say. The families say they cannot afford the rents at Macassar and that they prefer the bush to the township.
Jarvis Street Baptist Church, Green Point, Cape Town, 1970
Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historical buildings, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Race discrimination
The Jarvis Street Baptist Church, which recently celebrated its 75th anniversary, will soon be moved away to the Cape Flats.
Former Ministry of Education building
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Refugees who have fled the fighting in the Angolan countryside inhabit the former Ministry of Education building.
Old railway station, Cape Town, circa 1965
Cape Town (South Africa), Trains, Historic buildings, Transport, Urban development
Looking into the first railway station in Cape Town, from the Castle.
The Saambou National Building Society's new building in Bellville, Cape Town
Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Business, Apartheid, Architecture, Building, Afrikaners
An example of the office building accommodation available in Bellville's growing central business district district is this modern building society block. The Saambou National Building Society's new building in Bellville was officially opened this week by Dr C.F. Albertyn. In addition to the shopping space on the ground floor, there are seven floors of office space and the banking hall also provides for art exhibitions. Saambou now owns buildings in Bellville valued at more than R1 500 000. With office accommodation in big demand in the rapidly developing Tygeberg area, office blocks are going up all over. One of the latest and largest blocks is the Saambou National Building, opened towards the end of last year. This building offers shopping space on the ground floor and seven floors of office space.
House in Wale Street, Cape Town, 1951
Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition, Urban development
Old house at the top of Wale Street.
Standard Bank's main office, Cape Town, 1970s
Standard Bank's main Cape Town office, which dates from many years ago. Early this century it was described as the most imposing building in Adderley Street. Still to-day it remains one of the city's more interesting buildings, and provided a pleasing contrast with the surrounding concrete jungle.
Old Town Hall, Rondebosch, Cape Town
Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Landmarks, Monuments, Historic buildings, Architecture
The old Town Hall at Rondebosch: do not move the public library from this ideal spot, says a reader.
Aerial view of Muizenberg, Cape Town
Infrastructure, Residential buildings, Ocean, ,
Right: The beach front at Muizenberg soon after sunrise on a clear winter's morning. This photograph shows the area of beach once occupied by the now demolished Muizenberg Pavilion.
Valkenburg Manor, Cape Town
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As it is today - After reconstruction the Valkenburg manor, occupied by the Rosenfontein restaurant, became one of the Cape's most admired and best-frequented eating venues.


Veritas Christian claims first boys title with win over Calvary Christian
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HACKENSACK -- The Veritas Christian boys basketball team won its first boys title at the Bergen County Christian Academy's Invitational Tournament, holding on to take down Calvary Christian, 50-45, on Saturday.
Veritas Christian 50, Calvary Christian 45
HACKENSACK -- The Veritas Christian boys basketball team won its first boys title at the Bergen County Christian Academy's Invitational Tournament, holding on to take down Calvary Christian, 50-45, on Sunday at the Bergen County Christian Academy.
Dylan Cuperus registered a double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds and was named the tournament's most valuable player.
Ethan Mulder led the way for the Lions in the championship game with 16 points and nine rebounds. Mulder was joined by senior Christian Doorley on the all-tournament team.
With the title, Veritas, which jumped in front by 24 points after three quarters, improved to 17-8 on the season.
CC	8	5	9	21	-- 45
VC	13	15	18	5	-- 50
Phillipsburg: Ethan Mulder 16, Dylan Cuperus 13, Aaron Burke 10, Christian Doorley 7, Jonathan O'Brien 2, Simon Valkema 2
Records: Calvary Christian 9-13, Veritas Christian 17-8


Phillips Sapphire Life V878 gets TENAA certification
With the introduction of two new smartphones, the Philips Sapphire S616 and Philips Sapphire Life V787 to the public just last month, Smartphone manufacturing company is now set to launch the second device, the Sapphire Life V787 into the market soon. Reports from TENAA has revealed that the smartphone has gotten certification and is set to be available in stores very soon.
Not to forget that the Phillips Sapphire S616 launched in China at a pricing of around Rs. 14,500 comes with an Anti-Blue display which is based on the SoftBlue technology which produces up to 86% less blue light compared to the regular display in other smartphones therefore helping to reduce eye strain of users.
The soon to be released Sapphire Life V787 smartphone has a 5-inch FHD Anti-Blue display with screen resolution of 1080×1920 pixels and a pixel density of 441ppi running on the Quad-core MediaTek chipset which is yet unnamed but clocked at a speed of 1.5GHz. The smartphone is equipped with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage memory capacity which is further expandable to up to 32GB using microSD card with a 13MP rear facing camera decked with the Phase Detection Auto Focus (PDAF) technology and a 5MP front selfie camera. The Phillips Sapphire Life V787 runs on an Android 5.1 Lollipop OS and is powered by a 5,000mAh battery which with the Phillips' own Xenium technology boasts to last up to 47 hours of talk time.
The Phillips Sapphire Life V787 is expected to be available in stores soon although no official word concerning it's market availability has been issued by the company.


Preparing Australia for the impact of the Internet of Things
Hundreds of Australian and International Internet of Things (IOT) experts will assemble at University of Sydney on Monday 10 September and Tuesday 11 September to present IOT Impact 2018 - Australia's largest conference and expo on IOT.
What is the IOT - The Internet of Things?
The Internet of Things is the next evolution of the Internet - where not only computers and smartphones are connected to the Internet, but also a wide range of standard everyday physical devices, each embedded with technology to enable them to be connected to the Internet. Every one of these devices, uniquely identifiable will then be able to communicate with one another and be remotely monitored and controlled.
By 2020, the number of IoT connected devices globally is expected to be 30 billion, and this is forecast to grow to 100 billion by 2025.
By 2025, the IoT market could be generating revenue close to USD 10 trillion.
IOT Alliance Australia
IOT Alliance Australia was formed in 2016 and is the peak body representing the Internet of Things in Australia. A not-for-profit organisation, with over 400 member organisations, its objective is to guide Australian industry in the adoption of IOT, and ensure that Australia as a whole generates a competitive advantage.
Its task is made that much more difficult given the slow take-up rate of Australian companies:
59% of Australian businesses have little or no IOT experience
34% of companies have not started their IOT journey
IOT Impact 2018
To assist in raising the awareness of IOT amongst Australian industry and government, IOT Alliance is presenting IOT Impact - a two-day learning campus for Australian business executives – to understand and plan for the impact of the Internet of Things in Australia.
Located at the University of Technology Sydney, the event will consist of an exhibition of 40-Australian and international companies, and an extensive conference and workshop program.
The conference will have a dedicated session on each of the six key industries that will be most impacted by IOT: Smart Cities, Transport, Energy, Water, Manufacturing and Food and Agriculture.
The conference will also have a dedicated session on the key enablers - the glue - that's needed to make IOT work: Security, Data, Technology Platforms, Artificial Intelligence and Communications Networks.
Keynote speakers include: Christopher O'Connor, General Manager, IBM Internet of Things Offerings (USA), Clayton Fernandez, Director IoT, Microsoft (USA), Dr Stefan Ferber, CEO, Bosch Software Innovations (Germany), Professor Dr Lutz Heuser, CEO, [ui!] Group (Germany), Andre Kluge, Managing Director, Schaeffler Australia, Harry Debney, CEO, Costa, John Marcolini, Vice President, Itron (USA), Gerhard Loots, Head IOT & M2M, Telstra, Terri Benson, Managing Director, South East Water, Michelle Price, CEO, Australian Cyber Growth Network, Dr Stephanie Fahey, CEO, Austrade, and Professor Alexey Voinov, Distinguished Professor, School of Systems, Management and Leadership, UTS.
The line-up of big names supporting the event by exhibiting, speaking, or delivering a specialty workshop session include: IBM, Bosch, CBA, Telstra, KPMG, Schneider Electric, Microsoft, Huawei, Vodafone, CSIRO and Nokia.
"We're at a pivotal time for business in Australia," says Frank Zeichner, Chief Executive Officer, IOT Alliance Australia. "IOT will make an enormous impact on nearly every business and industry, and whether that turns into an opportunity for your business or poses a serious threat to your future, all depends on how well prepared you are. IOT impact is just the first step in a long road educating Australian businesses."
IOT Impact runs from Monday 10th - Tuesday 11th September 2018
Faculty of Engineering and IT Building
For further information visit:
www.iotimpact.com.au
About IOTAA
With over 400 member organisations and over 750 individual participants IOTAA is the peak Australian IoT body.
Its vision is to empower industry to grow Australia's competitive advantage through IoT.
It works with:
Industry to accelerate the adoption of IoT in specific sectors
State and Federal Government to develop programs and policies
Research institutions to build leadership in strategic areas
IOTAA focuses on the key industry sectors of Agri-Food, Water, Energy, Smart Cities, Transport/Logistics and Manufacturing and the key enabling technologies of Data, Security and Platforms and supported through its collaborative framework start-up engagement programs.
For more information visit www.iot.org.au
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