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		<title>Into Darkness Iron Man!: Drone Strikes and Terrorism in the Post-9/11 Era</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 11:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Reft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Editor's note: For those of you who have seen neither Iron Man 3 or Star Trek: Into Darkness, there are spoilers below.] Few action films of recent years have built their origin story so thoroughly on the psychological wreckage of 9/11 America than the Iron Man series.  True, its source material remains the popular Marvel [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399487&#038;post=6660&#038;subd=tropicsofmeta&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 19:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first book by ToM&#8217;s own Alex Cummings, Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright recently dropped from Oxford University Press.  Based on his dissertation at Columbia, the book traces the winding history of technology, property rights, and music since the invention of sound recording in the 1870s.  From sheet music  to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399487&#038;post=6646&#038;subd=tropicsofmeta&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everything in its Right Place: The Shining, Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth, and Beasts of the Southern Wild</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Sayf Cummings</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In childhood, there is a sense that everything is whole.  Everything is in its right place.  Ideally, Mom and Dad and aunts and uncles and grandparents try to ensure that a child’s world is a good one, without a malignant piece or impulse to upset the order of things, which is why for much of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399487&#038;post=6625&#038;subd=tropicsofmeta&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slouching in White: Joan Didion and the Legacy of the Late Sixties</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Reft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“One last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out,” Joan Didion concluded with an air of unassuming menace in her 1968 essay collection Slouching Toward Bethlehem. As the party ended, the 1960s closed with the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of MLK and JFK, the rise of angrier more militant Chicano, Feminist, and Black [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399487&#038;post=6604&#038;subd=tropicsofmeta&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Do We Know an Intervention Has Succeeded?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 08:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam E. Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation. . . . We’re monitoring that situation very carefully. We have [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399487&#038;post=6595&#038;subd=tropicsofmeta&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Upstream” Battle: How a Filmmaker Makes an Incredibly Weird Film in 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 11:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Sayf Cummings</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days after seeing Shane Carruth’s new film Upstream Color, it still seems hard to know where to begin.  Carruth was the come-from-nowhere savant, trained as an engineer, who made Primer, perhaps the most realistic and compelling movie about time travel ever imagined, filmed in the suburbs of Dallas on a vanishingly small budget [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399487&#038;post=6586&#038;subd=tropicsofmeta&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>London Calling: Paul Gilroy, Dick Hebdige, and British Multiculturalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 12:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Reft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black man gotta lot a problems But they don&#8217;t mind throwing a brick White people go to school Where they teach you how to be thick White riot &#8211; I wanna riot White riot &#8211; a riot of my own White riot &#8211; I wanna riot White riot &#8211; a riot of my own - [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399487&#038;post=6563&#038;subd=tropicsofmeta&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Information Security Analyst&#8217;s Take on CISPA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often get asked what I do for a living, which has proven next to impossible to explain.  Most of the time it goes something like &#8220;I protect my company from people like Wikileaks&#8221; &#8212; which is both correct, and wholly inaccurate.  I work in information security for a major financial services company, which means that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399487&#038;post=6555&#038;subd=tropicsofmeta&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of Profiteers: Prediction Markets and Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie Braden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the ever-present abundance of contrary opinions on what various markets will do (Should you short sell gold this week? Is bitcoin a bubble? Is there a bond bubble? Is the Euro safe? Is my financial fly down?), there’s one thing we know for sure: speculation itself never goes out of style, and any market [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399487&#038;post=6541&#038;subd=tropicsofmeta&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iron Waspy Ladies: What Annette Funicello, Lilly Pulitzer, and Margaret Thatcher Tell Us about the Cold War</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mindy Clegg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me, what makes the Cold War an interesting time is not necessarily the existential conflict itself, though we all seem to agree by now that it really was not so existential as we were led to believe. Proxy wars and diplomatic brinkmanship are important to understand and exciting to contemplate, but the role that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11399487&#038;post=6524&#038;subd=tropicsofmeta&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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