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more cold, inhuman modernism the pics in yesterday's guardian were quite, quite beautiful. more-

c'mon, this is just further dissembling. someone involved with the contras has no right whatsoever to describe themselves as either liberal or democratic. another thing, that book that you link to is extremely dubious- the conflation of eg the vietnamese and cambodian communists is sheer...

possibly the best documentary made on british television like, ever. i wouldn't, by the way, necessarily call it a critique of psychoanalysis per se- more a study of its pernicious outgrowths, bearing in mind the freud line that psychoanalysis, if taken literally, turns people into...

i went to the theatre instead...dear oh dear. (was good tho! was for who's afraid of virginia woolf, free tickets and bill irwin like a malevolent niles-from-frasier...) but there is an imminent ICA season. blurb being- The famed German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder worked at a...

we'll make plans for buildings and houses aw! but i thought it kinda appropriate...i just really like the word 'polytechnic' these are very very interesting questions... i) can you expand on this a bit? cos this is for me a class question. eg, the barbican is socially considered a...

historically this is utter pish- the idea that hobbes(hobbes!), locke, adam smith would describe themselves as 'liberal', let alone 'democratic' is empirically the exact inverse of the truth. what was her PhD in again? surely not history of some description? also- liberalism and democracy...

dissensus in 'lazy' shocker

it's the engineering block at leicester (as was) polytechnic... on the subject of the smithsons...this, in poplar is sad and beautiful. v similar in its materials and general design to their economist building in st james' but being social housing, has been left to rot by the council-...

ah, the return of my favourite ever dissensus thread! no 1 poultry is fucking horrible. the reason why i tend to be scathing about pomo is that this monstrosity exemplifies it perfectly...a horrible grin of a building. actually one of the mooted plans for the site was a mies van der rohe...

(applauds) i was thinking, with ref to this v&a exhibition (which i haven't been to yet, ho hum) that this marked a faintly depressing recuperation of radical ideas (cf bat's piece here- http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=9727)- thoughts of ikea as the true heirs of...

sigh...nothing if not predictable :p (do forgive me for this brief turncoatery in defending confucius) Well, precisely what is interesting in these films is their use of romantic conventions. there's a long-running psuedo-left critique of romantic melodrama, the 'women's picture' and so...

i think both 'in the mood...' and 2046 are utterly glorious. though i know at least one dissensus poster who violently disagrees with me on this, so will post my case and some pics and things when i have a bit more time...

quite. throwing money at PFI hospitals to make ideological points is not the sort of spending on the NHS people are asking for... anyway. in answer to the question- FUCK NO- but i do rather miss the sheer evil of the tories. the gleeful nastiness of an alan clark versus the simpering...

there's a track from around 02-3 that i have on a pirate tape somewhere which was made up entirely of streetfighter samples. someone at start of it said 'this one's streetfighter geezer' so presumably that was what it was called. generally i lose interest in grime the further away it gets...

'nasty, brutalist and short' glad this thread has got going. good work comrades :p interesting you say that. BS Johnson in the 60s (one of the many candidates for Last Great Modernist, obv) thought that literature and architecture were the places where modernism hadn't 'won', unlike with...

just been swearing at news 24 for two hours...the bbc as craven as ever. one of their correspondents in the place de la republique, who had evidently just been teargassed, coughed and spluttered through some spiel about 'violent' protestors (while the live camera showed police spraying gas in...

oh yes, they were rubbish. though i my favourite period of pulp (roughly 1990-4) is dominated by his slavic violin and evident perversity. also the other day a friend said my NEW HAIRCUT made me look like a blond russell senior- hopefully without the terrifying stare

Well, quite. Its always been rather frustrating to see 'modernism' attacked for an alleged complicity with nazism and stalinism, given that the art of these eras not only rejected the politicised modernism of the 20s, but also totally anticipated postmodernist practice (its no accident it first...

no, rant more! i totally agree with this. one of the things that especially gets to me is the imperative nature of all this- people act as if by pointing out the fatuousness of these comparisons, by not tolerating mediocrity, that you're being miserablist and contrarian. the pulp thing is...

christ, if only it were so! in fact the unifying factor in almost all the recent wave of over-hyped schmindie acts has been the utter unrelenting sartorial drabness. look at the arctic monkeys, or the libertines (shopping in camden market does not style make), or the kaiser fucking chiefs...