The death of my old MacBook Pro this evening has caused the loss (hopefully only temporary) of the blog post I was working on today (on androids in Alien and Prometheus), which I will try to recover and finish next week.

In the meantime, here are some interesting things I encountered on the internet this week.

• “Happyism”: Deirdre N. McCloskey on “the creepy new economics of pleasure”.
• An Interview with Slavoj Žižek.
• The 20 best designs in sci-fi movies.
• An outrageous (due to the contrasts made clear in the article) case I missed last year: “In Prison for Taking a Liar Loan”.
• Apparently even logically infallible innocence is sometimes a technicality that doesn’t help you actually get out of prison.

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One Response to “Technical Difficulties and Linkspam, 2012-06-17”

1. jeffliveshere Says:
   18 Jun 2012 at 10:46

   I often find myself wanting to read more Zizek, having read just a smattering in college, and then I read an interview like this and it disabuses me of that desire. :)

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