things

* Mark Thwaite reviews Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee (Update: with more fine essays by Lars Iyer featured on ReadySteadyBook here).

* Steve remains the only literary blogger out there

* Read Douglass Kellner's forward to May '68 in France: Dynamics and Consequences

* The LitBlog Co-op suggests its second Read This! title...

* More on academic blogging here and with unintentional parody here. Update: And join the necessary bloggers' rebuttal to Ivan Tribble (know-nothing pathetic masochist previously ridiculed here and everywhere).

* CNN's obnoxious State of Emergency banner is best understood by Baudrillard (and Agamben, of course).

* AVW on the dangers of being too aware: namely, despair.

* From here: