and part of this course was to stop at the concession stand and chug a giant soda. This week on NXT, the rookies had to run through a life-sucking, programming-fartbomb of an obstacle course. But to have to listen to him try and cut down a true worker like Bryan Danielson by making fun of the dude's healthy life choices is, quite possibly, too much to bear. It's fun to make Cole the target of our wrath. Yes, we all know about my hate/hate (add some hate) relationship with Cole, but this week he (if it's at all possible) stepped over the boundaries of taste, safety and acceptable human behavior. I mean, I've been watching the WWE for over 20 years now so it's hard not to sort of just, well, sit there like a pompous oaf and think "oh, that's interesting." Or "I approve of that booking decision." Of course, the one thing that the WWE does possess that can get my blood boiling and fill me with unbridled hell-rage is Michael Cole. There's nothing that really gets me all that excited about the product and I find myself being able to take a more detached position when watching it. Yeah, it's mostly nonsensical 'net complaining – but it's still content. Work tells a story of interdependence and persistence to confront the rising tide of individualization and precarity.Truth be told, TNA usually gives me more to write about each week. Moreover, and most importantly, these values and divisions are not monolithic, but are fragile and easily crossed by the everyday activities of life at the edge of the forest. Work’s findings suggest that hierarchies, values, and social divisions harden in the contact zones where economic development, religion, and the territorial state meet the land upon which they depend. Nevertheless, local ideas of value are subject to change, and popular desire for the material hallmarks of empire points productive energies toward those hallmarks – dragging the forests and spirits into the rising tide. Issues concerning the mountains and weather expose the fragility of development projects, and the maintenance of both temples and roads exceed local capacity. It exposes shards of construction along fictional social boundaries, but also illuminates the contact zones where segregation flourishes – between people, and between humans and the elemental energies that support them. Set in a small village in rural western Cambodia where the physical and social landscapes are littered with debris from multiple empires, the story uses this entanglement to re-member the social categories of religion, history, and politics. The book tells an intimate story of social and environmental transformation at the edge of the forest and the frontier of the empire. Courtney Work, is an ethnographic critique of development leveled from the margins of a marginal state. Tides of Empire, the latest publication by 2016 CKS Senior Fellow Dr.
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