P-Funk's Mothership to Be Enshrined at Smithsonian

The P Funk Mothership, otherwise known as The Holy Mothership, is the arcane space vehicle of Dr. Funkenstein aka George Clinton and his agents of Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication. An integral part of the P Funk mythology, the Mothership existed both conceptually as a fictional vehicle of funk deliverance, and as a physical prop central to P Funk concerts. Powered by unknown means, presumably The Funk and simple stagecraft, the Mothership appeared over the Planet Earth many times during the second half of the Twentieth century, and was even seen to physically land at a number of live music venues in the United States during the 1970s in order to disgorge its Funk to the people. More here

Now, the Smithsonian has announced that has been acquired by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture where it will help anchor a permanent music exhibition when the museum opens its doors in 2015. Fullstory here


The P-Funk All Stars get down to it, on Earth as it is in Heaven here

The End of the Consumer Economy: I, Transformer

David Leonhardt's analysis in the Sunday Review (formerly the Week in Review) in the the NY Times provides a sobering and painful overview of current data which suggests that the collapse of the debt-based Consumer Economy which grew beginning in the latter part of the 20th century means there will be no Quick Recovery, just a lot of Hard Reality.

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A bit of a tonic on a Summer Monday morning as the grim economic news and political stalemates continue to unfold. "Like Marx's account of communist society, it's surely too sketchy to found a political platform. "I am utterly pessimistic about the future, about the possibility of an emancipated communist society. But that doesn't mean I don't want to imagine it."


Slavoj Zizek interviewed in the UK Guardian here