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(c) Elizabeth Parker Hats " We exist in a state of social and physical equanimity that is unparalleled in the history of humans. Why else would we alert the media every time we feel a little blue ?" - Dave Hickey Look at this reverse image search thing! God, isn't it worth social atomisation and massively lower attention spans? Particularly when taken in tandem with this lovely thing . And this . And this . And this . And this . And this , this , this and this . And all that . And this . And this . And this . And this . And this . And this (alt) . And this . And these . And this . (Prostate exam of justice.) They've all got downsides. (Ok, not Child'sPlay) But that's built into the idea of "technology". Wikileaks in particular is a time-traveller from some future place where people actually control their governments . But in this spacetime manifold, it's fucking dangerous . (Regarding that future "actual democracy", the Ch...

What are you so angry about? 1. When journalists attribute coherent thought systems to politicians who have no such thing. It becomes the duty of academics to "reconstruct" (i.e. construct) them. cf. Thatcherism , Reaganism, even Howardism . 2. When Peter Strawson sets the agenda for the metaphysics of the next fifty years with a bollocksy arbitration that William of Ockham wouldn't have touched . Steve Pratt (2009), Metaphysics of Presence, elk shit on hessian 3. When geniuses are idiots, and loudly. Freeman Dyson (denied that humans have damaged the environment, tried to discredit IPCC) Ludwig Wittgenstein: " Pinsent enraged me with notions of women’s suffrage. The only women I know are idiots who flirt with professors ." Also his life-denial and Natural Law stuff. Salvador Dali Martin Heidegger ( Fry , Watson and Meades don't make the list.) 4. The theoretical conclusion that "The free-market is an automatic producer ...

On Spotify Here 1. Plus Ones - Okkervil River no one wants a tune about the 100th luftballoon, seen shooting from the window of your room to be a spot against the sky's colossal gloom, and land, deflated in some neighbor state that's strewn with 99 others . 2. Hot Topic - Le Tigre (fuh all thuh gurrrrlz) 3. Losing My Edge - LCS Soundsystem (I WAS THERE I WAS THERE I WAS THERE) It is about being horrified by my own silliness. And then it became a wider thing about people who grip onto other people’s creations like they are their own . 4. Teachers - Daft Punk) (You haven't heard of these, go away if you say you have.) 5. Teachers - Soulwax (be nothing like one's heroes) 6. A Praise Chorus (Wait for the bridge: Shondells , Madness , Promise Ring, Bad Company , They Might be Giants . This meant something to me, once.) Crimson and clover, over and over Crimson and clover, over and over Our house in the middle of the street, why did we ever meet? Star...

Avatar (2010) We think that fun is radical and revolutionary fun actually was becoming quite subversive fun was very important it was a direct rebuttal of the kind of ethics and morals that were being put forth in the country to keep people working in a rat race. bakhtin saw the carnival as a popular expression of subversion a “world turned inside out” in which people could make fun of the systems the system of power that structured their everyday existence maan Matrix 2 (2004) "To dance is to rebel." the performance principle denies people’s desire for “mindless pleasures”—sexual, playful, and nonproductive (or nonreproductive)—in order to promote labor that becomes ever more alienated from its products The role of the father is taken by “the Man” who “has a branch office in each of our brains” Fuck the rich! Fuck the cops! Everyone to the streets on Saturday November 20! We will party in Parliament Square and if the cops try and stop us w...

Rationalist walks into a job interview. Interviewer: "Have you any experience in the field, Mr...Leibniz?" Rationalist: "WHAT IF I DON'T?" ******************************************************* Reading a wee biography of Shane MacGowan which describes his childhood as "port-stained". Not " port-wine-stained ", but worse. ********************************************************* *********************************************************** " I found out I'm gay, a few weeks ago in Oklahoma. That sucked - I had no idea! Some guy in a bar told me, he said: 'Hey, you're a faggot!' And I thinks: 'Ahh shit! How am I gonna tell my Dad? It was hard enough breaking it to him that I was an asshole. He's gonna hate this !'" - Doug Stanhope ******************************************************************** MISSING: proper conception of male sexuality. If found, please retur...

“ When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity...When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination .” - Graham Greene "WE ARE ALL HOSTAGES WE ARE ALL JEWS WE ARE ALL SURVIVORS WE ARE ALL CANNIBALS WE ARE ALL SAINTS." ********************************************************** [ cmd:/run {existence} ] ---Welcome to Being! ---You usurp {Djellali Mohd}. What gives you the right to do that to him? You take {200} Shame Points! ---You see Dave, the guy who always gives you hassle about your hair! [FACETOFACE ENCOUNTER!] ---You see {9} Responsibility Points! [ cmd:/take 9RP ] ---You receive 9000 Shame Points! [ cmd:/give sandwich: Dave ] ---Dave is {still hungry}! ---Shame total {8999} ---Through Dave's Face, you realize you are related (always-already asymmetrically non-subsumptive divinely) to all Thirds! You now have {6.999999 bill...

And, now, No.5; the ascent of the world...