The ability to experience a wide variety of information steadily increases on the Internet over time. Here are two examples of short stories by classic science fiction authors that are free for everyone to read. The Internet fully demonstrates the advantages of the cultural and artistic commons.

 
Populism, before it became a concrete political movement in the 1890's, was a strong sentiment in the United States. It involved a direct democratic process and the public control of the monetary system as a way to empower citizens in the political and the economic sphere. The best example early on in America was the political structure of Vermont which developed as a separate republic rather than a colony. However, over time, industrialism and the centralization of banking had eroded populism to a passive participation through voting and only a small minority owning the means of production.

 
The issue of revolution can move forward in two directions. It can be a universal process of hegemony that can easily recycle the structures of the old order. It can also be multiple and unique processes of affinity where a new order is created in the shell of the old. Hegemony requires a complete destruction of the old order, but this can mean that the problems of the old order are not fully examined. Affinity, on the other hand, would mean that alternatives are constructed as a reaction to the overall system and as a solution to the oppressive drawbacks of the old order.

 
The production of forms within reality appear to occur only within human experience, but this process can be independent of human interaction with reality. This production comes about through the establishment of partial differences and partial equivalences that actualizes a direct relationship between form and content. These forms are made up of parts of reality, which in turn are wholes that are constituted by other parts. Just as there are vertical levels of parts and wholes, there is a horizontal relationship where a part from one form can be applied to another form on the same level. This configuration has the ability to sustain itself as a purely material process.

 
The following are my predictions on who will win the Oscars for 2009. Though the nominated movies are the types of films that the Academy normally would select, this does not mean that they are of less quality. Some directors that are nominated or have nominated movies began their work in independent films, and it is good to see their talent recognized.

BEST PICTURE: The Reader

BEST DIRECTOR: Gus Van Sant, “Milk”

BEST ACTOR: Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler”

BEST ACTRESS: Kate Winslet, “The Reader”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger “The Dark Knight”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Adams, “Doubt”

BEST FOREIGN FILM: Baader Meinhof Complex

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Frozen River

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Frost/Nixon

BEST SONG: O Saya, “Slumdog Millionare”

BEST MUSIC: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Man On Wire

BEST ANIMATED FILM: Wall-E

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS: The Dark Knight

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

BEST SOUND: Wanted

BEST SOUND EDITING: Wanted

BEST FILM EDITING: Milk

BEST ART DIRECTION: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

BEST MAKEUP: Hellboy II: The Golden Army

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: The Witness – From The Balcony Of Room 306

BEST SHORT FILM: The Pig