> Swans Commentary > http://www.swans.com/ > October 19, 2009 > > FUNDRAISING TIME: Dear readers, we need to raise $2,500 between now and the > end of the year. Without this amount of money (in addition to what we have > already received), we won't be able to maintain Swans with the quality and > dependability you have grown used to over the years. We must pay for our > costs, at the very least. You read Swans and you appreciate our commentaries > and the fact that we are an ad-free zone. We do too, but we are shouldering > the financial costs. We can't do it ad vitam aeternam. If you wish to > continue enjoying Swans, please help us raise $2,500. Ask yourselves the > value of our work, and whether you can find a better edited, more trenchant, > and thoughtful Web publication that keeps sanity and sound thoughts as first > priorities. Without your help, we shan't be able to continue to bring to you > and the larger community this cogent bi-weekly collection. Donate now! -- > http://www.swans.com/about/donate.html > > @ @ @ @ @ > > Note from the Editors: Faced with the staggering dullness of the daily > circus played out on the big screen TV, we find it appropriate to begin with > some *real* political culture, first with Louis Proyect's superb review of > Michael Yates's latest book that examines the tensions between his working- > class roots, blue-collar sensibilities, and academic career, and next with > Peter Byrne's spirited introduction to storyteller Aleksandar Hemon, a > Sarajevan native who immigrated to Chicago and became a renowned writer, > drawing often from the political conflicts that besieged his childhood. > Fittingly, Charles Marowitz reviews Michael Moore's latest documentary, a > blunt indictment of capitalism that according to Marowitz should goad the > soporific public into action, and in this vein, Michael Barker once again > shows how the conservation movement has been co-opted by powerful capitalists > such as Laurance Rockefeller. > > While Femi Akomolafe, our voice from Africa, presents with his unique style a > nasty side of American culture that wants its president's head, Gilles > d'Aymery contrasts power, profits, and the ecosystem we are destroying to > preserve our NASCAR way of life. Turning the channel to college football, > Harvey Whitney demonstrates the length to which universities go to prostitute > themselves in misleading game-day advertisements. And a conversation between > Jeffery Klaehn and Garry Potter on the balance of individual and structural > power is apropos to activist Martin Murie's continued fight for single payer > health care and an end to endless war. > > In the French Corner Graham Lea reviews, in English, the cultural meaning of > French *patrimoine* and its profound differences with American Manichaean and > Messianic nationalism. Writing in French, Simone Alié-Daram reviews the > psychological trauma of Lasthenie de Ferjol syndrome; Marie Rennard, the > editor-in-chief of le Coin Français, examines four centuries of Parisian > transportation history; Marie-Laetitia Gambié offers a tale combining > psychology and surprising medicine; and we publish a famous poem by Barbey > d'Aurevilly. We end with *Beginning,* a multilingual poem by Guido Monte, > along with your letters, fan and otherwise. > > As always, please form your OWN opinion, and let your friends (and foes) know > about Swans. It's your voice that makes ours grow. > > # # # # # > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/lproy56.html > Michael Yates's "In and Out of the Working Class" > - Book Review by Louis Proyect > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/pbyrne111.html > Talespinning Sarajevo-Chicago - Book Review by Peter Byrne > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/cmarow149.html > Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" > - Film Review by Charles Marowitz > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/barker33.html > Laurance Rockefeller And Capitalist Conservation - Michael Barker > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/femia21.html > Understanding Amerikkka - Femi Akomolafe > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/ga274.html > Contrast - Gilles d'Aymery > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/hewhit02.html > Weakness, Ineptitude, And Folly: Scientistic Sensationalism and Corporatized > Clichés of University Game Day Television Ads - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr. > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/klaehn05.html > Dimensions Of Power - Jeffery Klaehn and Garry Potter > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/murie81.html > Health Care Is A Human Right; Warfare Is A Human Wrong - Martin Murie > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/glea08.html > "Le Patrimoine": French Symbolism, and the Triumph of Patriotism over > Nationalism - Graham Lea > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/salie06.html > Histoire d'une pathologie : Le syndrome de Lasthénie de Ferjol > - Simone Alié-Daram (FR) > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/marier39.html > Transports - Marie Rennard (FR) > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/gambie03.html > Hypnodiagnostic - Nouvelle par Marie-Laetitia Gambié (FR) > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/xxx138.html > L'échanson - Poème par Barbey d'Aurevilly (FR) > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/gmonte77.html > Beginning - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/letter176.html > Letters to the Editor > > # # # # # > > Swans (aka Swans Commentary), ISSN: 1554-4915, is a bi-weekly non- commercial > ad-free Web-only magazine which provides original content to its readers. 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