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Culturally I suppose everything must be seen as emergent strategies for dealling with the internet taking over the real world.

It sort of lacks authority. Something pubescent about it. Nothing really maturing into a real belief in itself. A parade of disposable paradigms.

Bellingham's annoyingly good. The Barca kid Yamal looks like the real deal as well, has that rare intuitive dribbling ability.

Not trying to sound like a bore but I thought the new Indiana Jones was about the best thing I've seen in ages.

There’s obviously an element of rap that is inherently opposed to concerns of bourgeoise morality such as sexual politics. Which is part of what makes it interesting, as the only popular artform that allows for an expression of extreme atavistic or anarchic drives. What is a funny is that when...

word of the day for me

How do you reckon the Saudi league level is compared to MLS? I've yet to watch a game in either one.

do people still say pause? did brits ever say that?

I read the selected writings one with the cover luka didn't like. Want to say I liked the essays but I don't remember really anything so it must not have stuck.

I have a hard time getting my head around the transfer/salary restraints. Some say it's destroying the league, others say it's saving clubs from being run into the ground. But apparently those rules are going uefa-wide soon?

very impressive and slightly alarming that you remember that

this one is sick

to become simultenously the most pointless being and the truest artist of our time. to be the pebble that from one angle twinkles bright in your eye but from the next gives off not the slightest reflection of light. to be this paradox lodged in the heart of the 21st century, this is the fate of...

It did have this very knowing, surperior tone which I suppose codes for "intelligent culture" nowadays. Thought it was fun enough but a bit off-putting yes. Designed to render criticism of it pointless. Very poptimist. Purposefully vague politics. The actual messaging you are left with has...

as the "scientific" increases in sophistication it comes back around to resemble pre-scientific knowledge. a neat idea i think.

fascinated by this.

Yes digital entertainment communism didn't turn out to be the utopia they had hoped.

a shame that he's too cool for school

I'm sure though that someone could completely rinse me for these points and I would be slightly dissappointed if it didn't happen

The basic point of Barthes' semiotics is to reach an appreciation of a text which lays bare the ideological traps embedded in the language. I'm less paranoid of those and I think if you seek that degree of knowing of what goes on, you naturally flatten some of the more immediate enjoyments in...