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That's great news Marcus... Where there's a will there's a way... let's make this happen, it really can...

The fact that people are offended is meaningless. So what? Offensiveness has nothing to do with racism, and the fact that all discussion of racism is now reduced to bourgeois parlour room politesse is part of the reason why this is so obnoxious. Being 'intensely inflammatory' is not a crime...

You have to think more punk Dave. ;) The last thing we'd want is another coffee table book surely... The book would go alongside the website, which as you say is in a sense the purest and best space for the photos to appear in.

No, what's 'offensive' - and why 'offence' is held to be the WORST THING ANYONE COULD SUFFER is worth a whole thread in itself - is that the journalist did indeed use precisely the same excuse that Nazi guards laid claim to in the postwar period. What's 'offensive' is trivializing racism to a...

Don't think a publisher is the way to go -- not worth getting dragged into years of tedious wrangling with those claret swillers --- could surely put up the money for a limited ed run ourselves?

So much that is pertinent to recent discussions here in the following passage from Badiou in an an interview with Cabinet magazine : 'In truth, our leaders and propagandists know very well that liberal capitalism is an inegalitarian regime, unjust, and unacceptable for the vast majority of...

And that cross photo is quite astonishingly yeh irridescent.... And while I enjoy Nick's photo's online, it would have to be better to experience them in a book... Can't we get it together? With text? I'd love to write something to accompany the pics, I'm sure Luke and Oliver (for two) wd love...

Luke's right, it was a great day. And Nick seemed so full of ideas, a vibrant switching system for concepts, people, sounds.... Last time I saw him, at the Dissensus meet in Whitechapel (what, a month ago? less?), much of that vibrancy had dissipated, but not - I thought, I hoped - fatally, not...

As for the 'trend': Yes, very recent, very British (as far as I know). Atm seems to be used only in relation to Jewishness.

I wouldn't listen to anything Mexican says, btw, he's a troll. Yawn.

I was with a number of fellow lecturers when I first encountered the Flying Pigs story. We were all bemused: anti-semitism... what? It was the LAST thing we would have thought --- but maybe it is aimed at more sophisticated minds than ours --- minds of 'white trash' (lovely term that, btw) who...

I'm finding this trend infuriating - in the context of an election campaign that is the most despicably racist since the 1970s, in which immigrants and their descendants are forced to endure endless comment about 'Britain being full' (which really, honestly, is NOT racist, really, it's just...

First it was the 'flying pigs' poster (which was NOT as it first appeared to a naive audience, a reference to the 'pigs might fly' verbal commonplace but a subliminal attempt to induce anti-semitism). Then the Michael Howard hypnotist post, which was NOT a reference to Little Britain but an...

I must admit I was INCREDIBLY sceptical about this one; I'll level with you, as an unreconstructed modernist, the Ballard I keep faith with is the Ballard of the condensed novels of the late 60s. That experimental 'found' fiction had a deranged cold lucidity that his more psychologically...

Shameless I shamefacedly admit I haven't seen.... Isn't that comedy though? (I speak from a position of genuine, total ignorance....)

I'm not over-enamoured with the voiceover meself, but I have to say I've been stunned by the reception of DH, not only here but in the media in general. The prevailing view in the papers seems to be 'What's all the fuss about?' (This from a country that voted Robbie Williams' 'Angels' the best...

Thank goodness, I thought I was on my own for a while there... :D Platell's part of this weird media culture in Britain atm which seems to run on sheer stamina alone... same thought occurred to me while watching c4's 'Greatest Videos ever' --- here were ppl who had absolutely nothing of any...

Been meaning to quote this for a while now. Simon Jenkins, two weeks ago, Sunday Times - purringly enjoyable blistering take-down of Gordon Brown, which accords very much with my own views of the power-crazed, psycho-sexually twisted calvinist: 'On any blink test, Brown's face, clothes, office...

The only case for a limitation on immigration into the UK is Amanda Platell. What skills has she got that indigenous Britons lack? Surely there are enough self-serving, self-promoting, stupid, PR industry failures in the UK so why the need to import them from Australia? Platell's column in the...

The whole ethical consumerist thing is a way of avoiding politics and is based on a personological delusion: that corporate capitalistm is 'evil', and if only people behaved more 'decently' then everything would be alright. This ignores and conceals the systemic and structural nature of...