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Originally published at The Fiction of Douglas Lain. You can comment here or there.

In this final installment of the C-Realm Podcast for 2009, Doug Lain, host of the Diet Soap Podcast, joins KMO to revisit 2009 C-Realm interviews with Jeff Vail, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Joe Bageant, and Frank Rotering. Can inferences about the economy and social relationships legitimately be drawn from observations about the cyclical behavior of a forest ecosystem, or does this sort of comparison lend legitimacy to unjust power relationships? Can a recovering Libertarian and a wavering Marxist even hear one another through the ideological noise? Take heart.

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Originally published at The Fiction of Douglas Lain. You can comment here or there.

I attended the film “Up in the Air” last night and, as is typical for me, I’ve been reading reviews of the picture today in order to search out my own position on the movie. The impression I had while watching was that the picture was making light entertainment out of our moral/cultural/economic bankruptcy, but when the story didn’t end happily I decided that perhaps it was a more subversive and thus better picture than I originally thought. In any case, here’s a review I found interesting.

Unemployment Gets a Lift in ‘Up in the Air’