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If not quite fitting the white-supremacist agenda, the idea that east Asians are cerebral etc is certainly another racial stereotype...?

It appears a greatly conflicted procedure too... If I genuinely liked a piece of music (admittedly esoteric), the last thing I would want to do would be to deploy it so as to lead people to listen to it in an unsympathetic way- it feels dishonest to use music which is special for brute effect...

Precisely! And hence an aesthetic response to this Zhao will result in neo-fascism as a matter of course... we need an avowedly politicised response...

I never said sickness makes people interesting! I said mental and physical illnesses could be conceived of as a level of unique identity in some senses outside of consumable image creation. Its not necessarily something to take pride in per se, that unique pattern of ageing and deformation, the...

Mr Tea: Re: String theory- why all the problems in empirically testing it?

If you read any of my posts you would read that I'm only interested in drugs on a conceptual level, and certainly do not advocate them in any sense as an actual practice as they are deathly dull (or at least only interesting to the extent they are deeply unpleasant). And I'm not really talking...

Fuck right off! Um yeah but more seriously, if we are going to resort to "common sense" then ought we to have a discussion at all? We can just accept a perfectly unproblematic idea of health and nature and proceed without any doubt towards total and utter irrelevency...

Im not saying give up on health, just "health" the rarified category of body-obsessive desire... and any idea of "return to nature" (on an individualistic basis at least) is simply laughable (and an idea which animated a variety of fascistic thought).

Obviously romantic notions of inspiration through mental illness are pernicous bullshit. However Zhao is repping some seriously simple-minded ideas here... his being precisely as romantic....

He's a total twat. Im sure hes still bollocking on about Dubstep being descended from Breaks... haha...

I was thinking more of consumerism/drugs- if you don't expose yourself you can limit the inculcation of new desires. To limit the unending EXPANSION of range/depth of desires is not a Christian contempt for the physical body, but merely an oppositional strategy to the unceasing efforts working...

But: Desire is manipulable, and you can certainly choose not to expose yourself to things which might induce a desire... whilst there is no "pure" desire which can be satisfied unlike all those impure desires implanted into our minds by hegemonic forces... It is probably possible to limit the...

Precisely. Well consumerism anyway has internalised, metastasized... not just addiction, but the root process of metabolic reactivity, that solipsistic observation of incremental internalised affect... That's why we must learn primarily to give up on the idea of "health" (definitely needs the...

Sorry but even you admit to not actually understanding the intricacies of field theory sufficiently to actually be able to discuss the merits (or otherwise) of this paper... so go on then...? HMLT: Is it possible that the disjunct between these fields is such that neither are actually...

This was a productive discussion then!

From a bit of research it would appear to be that Sokal mentions him rather briefly, and not anything post 1981...

Yes.

There is no "natural state"! The idea has an appeal in a similar way to becoming a smack head, it is seductive but is an abnegation of responsibility, to be honest suicide is more attractive than both...

True enough but is being "situated" inside an organic body really a revolutionary grounding point? Does it not create (at least) as many problems in that arena as it solves? It is towards the body that a great deal of the "identity" differentiating products are aimed is it not? Or at least...

HMLT: Did Sokal critique Badiou's maths in his book or what?