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One-Way Street (Einbahnstrasse) was Walter Benjamin's first effort to break out of the narrow confines of the academy and apply the techniques of literary studies to life as it is currently lived. For Benjamin criticism encompasses the ordinary objects of life, the literary texts of the time, films in current release, and the fleeting concerns of the public sphere. Following Benjamin's lead, this blog is concerned with the political content of the aesthetic and representations of the political in the media. As Benjamin writes in One-Way Street, "He who cannot take sides should keep silent."

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June 02, 2006

Alberto Is Watching You Surf the Web

Inspired by the resounding success and popularity of the NSA's mass phone bugging operation, AG Alberto Gonzales and the FBI have asked Internet and telecom companies to keep records of their customers' online activities for two years. The telecoms and the ISP's have "voiced concern" about the requests, but there's no indication that they'll do anything but meekly comply. Yet more blatant violations of Americans' privacy might be more palatable if they made public the surfing habits of certain people. For instance, it would be interesting to know Karl Rove's Google search keywords.

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