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How many twins can one university have? If Goldsmiths SU passes all of the resolutions before it on conjoining in solidarity with another university it’ll have a hard time buying trousers. Some would have Goldsmiths twin with a university in Palestine and have campaigned tirelessly for 18 months. Others would see Goldsmiths twin with an Israeli institution and have brought out the votes to defeat motions in the past. Both condemn the other for their solidarity, their morality (or lack of it), their inequity… Both sides seek absolute right and the destruction of the other… A grotesque caricature of only the most extreme elements of the conflict on which they hope to have some bearing. ...

I spend a lot of time in Gladstone Park and I’ve recently taken an interest in the state of Dollis Hill House. I think that the kindest word to describe the building is ‘wreak’. There are plans (there are always plans) to restore the house from the Dollis Hill House Trust in partnership with Training For Life. I’m not sure what they are in detail… but the appear to involve getting a whole bunch of money together to renovate the building into a venue of some kind - better than flats… no worse than demolition....

Goodbye to del.icio.us and simpy: I don’t get anything out of these social bookmarking services so I’m leaving them. The reason I joined was to share my bookmarks quickly and simply with others, in the case of del.icio.us, with a view to collaborating with others on creating a resource, in the case of simpy and the smithspolitics group. Yet as I still have a need for quick bookmarking and the global access a website provides me I’ve adopted a clone of the social bookmarking model, scuttle, and installed it here on robdyke....

nettime - content-free writing in narrow standardized inter-bred vernacular. “By slogan: in other words, by only learning the links, those keywords the grasp of which is anyway sufficient to spell out your allegiances to a certain ‘movement’ (I don’t wish to use the word ‘ideology’ here, which is too loaded with negative meaning). Keywords such as alterity, autonomy,biopower, bodies, communication, communism, corruption, desire, deterritorialization, discipline, desertion, empire, exodus, hybridization, immanence, multitude, etc. This listing is obviously not a complete one and its compiling – in alphabetical order, no less – is not of my making: the index at the end of the volume reflects a far from conventional choice, including names and keywords. As such, it is yet another tool for the hypertextual reading of the book (here’s a useful hint for all those who should choose to use Empire ‘by slogan’: in the index, the nested terms are in effect also all the strategic keywords you need).” Perhaps a filter/indicator/predictor of tendency towards / allegiances to a certain movement? Rob (i)Maria Turchetto, The Empire Strikes Back: On Hardt and Negri, Historical Materialism, volume 11:1 (23–36) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2003, Also available online – www.brill.nl...

I’m now a Friend of Cricklewood Library. I join the group last month and attended a meeting. Going to be making a few Freedom of Information requests to Brent Council in search of data on public consultation exercises and service use. More… when I’ve got my degree work finished?