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I recently read "The Savage Detectives" by Roberto Bolano. What a book! The antithesis to the overeducated, Iowa Writer's Workshop, MFA graduate book. The last great novel of the twentieth century. Anyone else read it, or anything else by the same author, or have any related thoughts?

The importance of blogging has been both talked up, and talked down... much of the mainstream media thinks they're a decadent scourge, (some) bloggers themselves believe they will save humanity. What does Dissensus think? How important are blogs? And what of the enormous diversity of blogs...

Slavoj Zizek has been around and about lately; reviewing Peter Hallward's book Damming the Flood in the New Statesman, pontificating on Tibet, and then Radovan Karazdic's poetry in the LRB, answering a Q+A in the Guardian, and, of course, publishing a new book...

Adbusters attacks the figure of the Hipster: http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html Momus responds: http://imomus.livejournal.com/390994.html K-punk confesses and counter-attacks: http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/010588.html Are hipsters in fact the scourge of...

I want to start a successor to this thread: http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=2809&highlight=capitalism In which (it seems to me) the Marxists got more or less routed by borderpolice. Is the labor theory of value of bullshit - and if so, what are the consequences for so-called...