Open University Closes a Tradition:
For more than 30 years, the university — which was quick to adopt TV as a means of reaching its hundreds of thousands of enrollees — has produced low-budget programs on subjects as varied as art history and particle physics. The institution has proven to be a remarkably prolific broadcaster, with tens of thousands of shows aired on the BBC, almost of all of them in the wee hours.

But next weekend, Open University will mark its last broadcast. Almost all of its students now have access to the Web, and so campus officials say they’ll distribute course lectures through podcasts and, for those looking for that throwback feel, on DVD’s.
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It is the end of an era.

By being normalised, that is to say, by extending the logic of equivalences to everyone, society, socialized at last, excludes every antibody. It then creates, in the same movement, specific institutions to receive them, and so, throughout succesive centrueies, prisons, asylums, hospitals and schools have flourished, not to forget the factories, which also began to flourish with the Rights of Man (this is how labour must be understood). Socialisation is nothing but the immense passage from the symbolic exchange of difference to the social logic of equivalence. p. 169

PistolWimp – Scary Mary:
Scary Mary

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i fail to see how this recut of mary poppins is scarier than the original. i mean think about mary poppins the original kids movie… that’s some scary social engineering.