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1. Can then, as I have repeatedly asked for over a year now, someone provide a definition of Popism that would fit the ineffably complex and too-sophisticated to be pinned down position that IS practised on ILM OR 2. accept my point that the reason that popism is not practised anywhere it that...

This is the most tiresome aspect of this discussion: as Matt established in the opening post on this thread, Popism is everywhere, but especially on NYPLM and ILX, if you want to be specific. The fact that no-one there or elsewhere would define themselves as Popists because, hey, they are more...

But this really is missing the point about Popism. These imaginary 'actual teenage girls' are not Popists; only Popists would say that. Imaginary 'actual teenage girls' (IATG) are what Popists project as the litmus test of what is acceptable to like. If the IATG 'wouldn't' like it, then it has...

I can see why you say that, but I think it is a false opposition... As Simon himself has said, pop stars themselves, much to their cost often, are very loath to see themselves positioned as part of a massive... Roxy in the seventies went out of their way to say they weren't 'glam'.. and look...

Anyone who wants a copy, email me your address, I'll send you the cds...

Fantastic.... just writing a post on it now....

Wow, thanks chaps.... I was so busy finishing it that I didn't get chance to plug it again... the mix was very distorted on the radio (my fault - techical limitations and mixing on lo-fi equipment) ... but hey, that's cyberpunk.... the cd is much better, i can send anyone who wants one a copy...

Is anyone going to Neubauten tonight at the Forum?

Tim Thanks for a wonderfully detailed and typically elegant response... but I think you have simply substantiated my initial conjecture, that you are NOT a Popist.... :p That's partly because, as I said above, NO-ONE is a popist... in precisely the same sense that NO-ONE can meet all the...

The Archbishop of Canterbury to attend? LOL... It's further proof that the Church of England is totally spineless and vacuous... what about the fact that THE FUTURE HEAD OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND is not only going to attend, he is putting off his wedding in order to so do?

It would be pointless to reheat the Passion of the Christ discussion --- accusing the film of anti-semitism is one (unfounded) thing (as I said, it is quite clearly an attack on established authority, power and wealth, which happened to be Judaic AND Roman in that context), but it strkes me as...

Isn't this a form of mystifying aestheticism though that is actually very akin to rockism? 'It can't be explained, the music comes first'... it's just that the mystification has shifted from the producer to the consumer... instead of the producer not having to explain him/ herself, it's the...

So, predictably, I'm appalled by the blanket coverage of the death of the head of the Church of Satan... proof, once more, that Deleuze and Guattari were right to describe capitalism as the age of 'piety and cynicism'... that faux-grave tone of hacks, as they slaveringly wait for the Old Man to...

Uh, don't think so... Blair is much, much worse than Thatcher. Blair has done nothing to dismantle anything bad that Thatcher did but a great deal to continue everything bad she started. Thatcher attacked vested interests; Blair produces them. Class mobility has DECLINED under that Islington...

Tim, are you really any more of a Popist than me, really? Does liking and privileging Pop music and being actively hostile to rockism make you a Popist? If so, count me in... I took it that Matt meant that it killed all critical discourse about pop in mass media*, but surely we must celebrate...

I've actually been thinking about this kind of thing a great deal recently too... prompted by comparing the early with the late Scritti... I mean, I would say that I am 'aesthetically' but not ideologically a Popist... in that, I like and privilege Pop, by almost any defintion (check my end of...

Can't comment on Badiou's paper obviously, but I suspect that someone in thrall to the Continentalist ponderocracy wouldn't be uh especially receptive to it. The whole point of Badiou's philosophy is to reject the whole notion of fixed 'horizons'. How do you know what such horizons are? So, yes...

No, you don't have to be Nathan Barley to live in London, actually This is one of the most ludicrous threads yet to appear on Dissensus... 'No, mate.. you'll need a grand....' Totally ridiculous scaremongering... I lived on my own in London/ Bromley for the past four years and never even paid...

What about Derek Bailey?