nknouf's blog

As I was walking around campus today I saw that Shell Oil was holding a recruiting event on the Engineering Quad, the "Shell Campus Pit Stop Challenge".

The power, or more precisely, pouissance, of media and the arts to respond to injustice and to those in control is well-known, even if it must be continually reaffirmed and re-created due to moves by the establishment.  Tactical responses rely on the unexpected, at least the unexpected as seen by establishment, in order to be effective.  These types of situations proliferate as cheap media technologies enter into formerly repressive situations.  An example of this is Malaysia, where I spent some time this summer.  While the nation profiles itself as a developing place, with a variety