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✖ Via The New York Times: “2009 Debt As A Pourcentage of G.D.P.” By Kevin Quealy and Karl Russell (Sources: European Commission; Eurostat; Bloomberg)

“Greece’s debt troubles are far from unique. Thirteen of the 27 European Union countries face debts equal or more than 60 percent of their gross domestic product, the limit set by the European Commission. And that group includes some of the rgion’s biggest economies, such as Britain and France.”

Read the related article “A Trillion for Europe, With Doubts Attached” by By Landon Thomas Jr. and Jack Ewing (May 11, 2010).

• May 16, 2010 link notes tagged: economy news Europe crisis destruction lost debt Greece

Do you admit to this certainty: that we are at a turning point?
―If it is a certainty, then it is not a turning point. The fact of being part of the moments in which an epochal change (if there is one) comes about also takes hold of the certain knowledge that would whish to determine this change, making certainty as inappropriate as uncertainty. We are never less able to circumvent ourselves then at such a moment: the discreet force of the turning point is first and foremost that.

✖ Via Maurice Blanchot, quoted as the epigraph for Bernard Stiegler’s first volume of his trilogy Technics and Time, tr. R. Beardsworth and G. Collins, Standford University Press, [1994]1998, p. 1 [Amazon]

Here’s the French version:

— Admettez-vous cette certitude : que nous sommes à un tournant?
— Si c’est une certitude, ce n’est pas un tournant. Le fait d’appartenir à ce moment où s’accomplit un changement d’époque (s’il y en a), s’empare aussi du savoir certain qui voudrait le déterminer, rendant inappropriée la certitude comme l’incertitude. Nous ne pouvons jamais moins nous contourner qu’en un tel moment : c’est cela d’abord, la force discrète du tournant.

• Mar 16, 2010 link notes tagged: communication lost space critic crisis history modernity author time Blanchot Stiegler

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✖ Via David Zaitz: Wait For The DVD (main portofolio).

Previously on Skandalon.

• Sep 11, 2009 link notes tagged: art photo photographer editorial communcation technology paradigm movie film entertainment evolution crisis theater