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I think every woman in Britain is legally obliged to have at least one 'sexy' dream about him per lifetime.

neocons prefer (non)blondes...

Am off to Forum tonight too....and agree entirely about the Neutral Milk Hotel record, whoever mentioned it. Listened to it hundreds of times, and I still don't know anything about the band, and never seen them. Bought their first LP, but wasn't nearly as good as the eponymous one....strange how...

Watch 'Intacto'! Seems you can raise or lower your luck by having photos of people. Or something. Good film anyway.

Never understood why he thought that Kula Shaker and other rubbish britpop was the right soundtrack to the invisibles, but it definitely had its moments. The best bits of DP were nicked from Borges, I reckon! Did you ever read Kill yr Boyfriend? possibly the best one-shot anyone has ever written.

Effay is quite right. The weirdest thing about the way this story is being run today is that Livingstone's outburst has somehow jeopardised the Olympic bid! So when we rightly lose it to Paris or whoever, all the press can go 'well, y'know, if Ken hadn't made that twattish comment while drunk...

My Ma too was in Paris in 68, just by coincidence (she probably cowered under an awning with your pa, luka! Or maybe they fought over the last remaining croissant...). She said she'd never been so scared in her life, which makes sense cos she's a pacifist low-level anarchist type and not really...

No, no, no. Attack on Iran absolutely terrible idea. Hostile population not in the least destroyed by sanctions.....war on Iran = middle east on fire! Whatever you might worry about, it's actually in Iran's interests to have nuclear weapons (or even non-hostile nuclear power for that matter)...

Must say I hadn't heard the 'Badiou's void is like Sartrean nothingness' argument before, but can see how a weak reading of Badiou might run with it. Who were you thinking of in particular, Bat, btw? - I'm curious.

well there's the pamphlet , er, Jean-Paul Sartre, from 1981 (Potemkine, I think, don't have references on me now), which should be translated in Historical Materialism at some point soon, and the whole early discussion of the Althusser Reading Capital theoretical antihumanist move in a piece...

Tend to think that Badiou is influenced by Sartre, but not quite in the way Bat fears - more on the basis of the later Sartre work, Critique of Dialectical Reason. It's here that Sartre posits the idea that the subject of politics - the group-in-fusion - emerges 'apocalyptically'. Badiou...

i won't be rude i promise. Ha! is ok, don't mind at all. I don't think I think any differently as a 'philosopher' than as a 'little girl in general'. If I've been reading tons of good stuff then sometimes I feel a bit more articulate and my thoughts seem somewhat more interesting and less...

Yeah, enjoyed persepolis 1 +2 a lot, especially having just been to Iran (in hijab, very cute). was a clever way of linking up the personal and the political, I thought... Regarding the art thing, doesn't bits of conceptual art try and mess with the whole visual/verbal/context thing in...

my thoughts are not visual at all. More like paragraphs of a repetitive modernist novel with the odd passage of angst and paranoia. But not always so dark, especially if I've been reading a lot and things have really been opened up in interesting ways. I'd say I'm pretty self-consciously aware...

yeah, your good nature will come back whether you like it or not. It's physically quite difficult to live in a constant state of fear and suspicion (much as our dear leaders like to think otherwise). I'm of the slightly naive view that all is not killing and eating when it comes to us hairless...

you've definitely been spying on me, tho I'm 5ft 4, and my nose isn't that small. Couldn't be more wrong about Glueboot, however.... I reckon you look a bit like Thom Yorke with darker hair and slightly less wonky eyes. Am I right?

Tee hee!..you and your pagan irrational-rationalism.... But it's not a question of making exceptions, like your racialist example...we're <i>all</i> uglee animals in various ways....but it's (futhermore) the weird (universal) capacity to reason and that which makes us cool. Potentially. Yeah...

Hi effay, Well, perhaps I shouldn’t still call it misanthropy…in a way it’s just the precondition for thinking the opposite, like wot John Eden said: People are still capable of great acts of kindness or solidarity despite living under a completely dehumanising oppressive system which...

The babies were very sweet indeed, Woebot! As were the deer, and the squirrel..... But to the anthropos...I thought the misanthropy thing was just strategic in one sense - i.e. sort out the various basic species-limitations so you don't get too bothered or confused when they (and you) do...

Well, I've only been to Goldsmiths' cafe once, and I certainly didn't do more there than have a coffee and read the paper....I put this list together cos Sufi, I think, was saying that it would be good to have some links to various references. It wasn't a question of setting parameters to...