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Grimella? Just being stupid now. Where can I get hold of this stuff. I love the idea of Laydeez Grime. Much more accessible for aging wussies like me.

I live in Australia. Which is great. Except most of the music is crap. Help me. Please.

Dominic - I'd agree that is a shame that there is an absence of K-punk here at the moment. But I want to avoid that discussion at the moment and focus on the "pragmatics" (correct term? - if someone can think of a better one then please do so) of Cold Rationalism (or whatever this thought...

I am an immigrant (pom living in oz). And the situation in Australia is just as bad as it is in Britain. Howard plays to the xenophobic fears of the white majority. And these fears are mix of legitimate concerns re:resources (e.g. water) but mostly pure racism. Even so, 20% of Australian...

I like the K-punk output but I have a major problem with one aspect. It's long on theory and exhortations and light on practical application. Plenty of What and Why but little How and So What. Which makes it feel *ugh* academic. Now I'm not expecting a post-D&G Tony Robbins ("Awakent the...

I saw Cursed ov Dialect about 18 mths ago - and they seemed wilfully wacky. Not impressed. Undie Hip? Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein. Wonderful, wonderful album...

South Korea is booming economically. The North is completely fucked. So what happens when the North inevitably collapses? No deep insight there, just a question...

OK, so the US is the world's only military and economic superpower. What should it, as a nation state, do with that power? And what should the EU - that big, sprawling mass of 25 nations - do? Work with the US? Limit it thru oppositional tactics? And assuming it wants to pick and choose, how...

Michel Serres Mate of Foucault's. Rare among theorists in that he is actually a very good writer. Poet even. Currently rereading Genesis. Accessible article here.

By a strange coincidence I got stoned for the first time in months last night. It was horrible! The feeling the next morning of being woozy and uncoordinated. At least with a hangover you want to get stuff done the next day (if only to take the pain away). And apparently, it's turning me into...

I have no deep theoretical insights here, so I'll make do with some random observation. I used to smoke a fair bit and I was completely autistic on it. I'd sit in a corner with a J and not want to talk to anyone. It had the opposite effect on some of my mates. What it was wonderful for was...

I had an art teacher in High School that stole a piece of my work once (saw it in her desk one time when she opened it) Which is kinda freakin' weird? Did this person have a crush on you or something? Anyways, I think there a couple of things going on here: 1. What are the impacts of...

ah, but that's the problem: i don't really know what representative iraqi opinion is (and right now we have little chance of finding out). we know what the hardliners think, we know what some pro-americans think: but there's a vast, terrified majority there who might as well be invisible to the...

ah, but that's the problem: i don't really know what representative iraqi opinion is (and right now we have little chance of finding out). we know what the hardliners think, we know what some pro-americans think: but there's a vast, terrified majority there who might as well be invisible to the...

K-punk: Your point of view is always located somewhere, but intellectual positions aren't the same as POVs. In what sense are mathematics and geometry 'located somewhere'? From the sound of it, you are subscribing to position on Science and Mathematics that Thomas Nagel describes as "The View...

And some of the short story collections are worth a flick thru. V. high pulp content mostly but some genuinely nasty stuff in there (e.g. The Father-Thing)

Engineers without Fears Woebot> The metaphor of the party is not a bad one. Savonarola> You seem to be creating an opposition between absolute agreement/conformity on the one hand and aggressive confrontation/emnity on the other. The metaphor I had in mind was an engineering crew. These...

China & the US Mark is exaggerating when he says 5 years. More like 20 (given current growth rates). If the Second Half of the 20th Century was about the competition between the US and the USSR, post 2020 will be all about the competition between China and India. China has the edge in...

When I was a kid, I got the shit beaten out of me by people that were bigger and stronger then me. At the time, I was quite bitter about it. But I now realise that this is just the way of the world. The strong beat on the weak. And I grew up. And I found that I could argue better than many...

Good. So now we've established that lawyers are evil what do we about it?