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next to the 't/s heidegger vs rachel stevens' thread on smashhits.com, this is all pretty lowbrow. "To go from Zizek's rejection of facile cult studs gestural micropolitics (the view, also rightly exoriated by Baudrillard that watching TV is an act of resistance) to the idea that pheww, coast...

of course they don't "take it seriously," ie they don't earnestly debate their bullshit, but they nonetheless firmly believe in it. otherwise they wouldn't read it! of course there's irony there, self-awareness, but its readers need that to go on with it. likewise the guardian is self-aware, but...

have you met any vice readers, though? it's not a matter of reception theory. they haven't been brainwashed. they are indeed fascist little hipsters by nature or intent and they have *chosen* vice. it wouldn't be anything without them. the 'beliefs' of the editors are indeed those of the...

'third generation' is out on uk artificial eye soon.

yeah, sharing the love for 'code' and 'wolf' but WHAT IS UP with 'the piano teacher'? i walked out. i would love to see his kafka film.

i cd have sworn he went to lancaster. maybe he's from lancaster. or maybe i meant jon snow. hmm. anyway, the house of commons (or more accuratelyt downing street) *is* important, if only in a negative sense. where else do you think decisions about eg imprisonment without charge are made?

i think the embargo is lifted, dave -- you can get the book in shops now.

Paxo didn't actually go to Oxbridge FWIW.

from the observer's review: Gumdrops, as it goes I quite like MIA's music, I'm just interested in how her 'project' is being inserted, both by her and by newspapers like the observer, into the culture at large. in a way the debates here and elsewhere have been a bit previous, because it's only...

dominic: blissblogger: i think a second's reflection will totally reject the idea that the primary site of the political has been music and art and culture; i don't understand the date (surely the '30s was the high point of 'political' literature? in any case there is a history of...

memo to council estate newsagents: that's on sale or return basis.

first par from the guardian's review: "For Maya Arulpragasam, guerrilla tactics aren't a trendy tag for a shambolic gig, they're a way of life. Having survived the upheaval of moving from Britain to the rebellion-torn Sri Lankan homeland of her father, a freedom fighter, she came back to the UK...

we-ell -- this is the thing, sometimes they're hard to ignore. some people still won't accept 'slave to the rhythm'. as it goes i think sinker squared the circle in re this debate by renaming "popism" "rockism about pop". but to engage with the interesting question of auteurism: the converse...

this is what's still stumping me 12 pages on: how in hell is ILX/NYPLM a hegemonic force? only in a tiny corner of the internet, and even then no-one who actually posts to ILX would say that the popist 'hivemind' really exists. that said, people are popists, it isn't a straw man, but otoh...

i think woebot should post to it, explain his first post, then lock it.

RIIGHT. what 'current situation' are you referring to here? where is this 'respect' you speak of? kashmir? palestine? iraq? the tory party? i realize the theoretical capital accruing to this kind of argument -- it enables, say, slavoj zizek to get back a little of the old radical patina that...

http://atlanticdvd.com.au/index_stuffer.cfm?view.cfm?id=13117~content OMG it's great enough that 'la chinoise' is coming to dvd, but FUCK ME 'british sounds' too???? amazing. australian only, but hey.

i kind of demurred at k-punk's 'this is a prostestant country' thing -- but WHAT THE FUCK is the archbishop of canterbury doing going to the pope's funeral???? it makes about as much sense as... oh fuck it. it's all bollocks. i don't want to believe it's ALL blair, but given that he has an opus...

quotes from Woebot: This is quite liberating: one should only listen to music from real communities, not imaginary ones. It doesn't matter which community you're from, and how imaginary it is: as long as the originators live in a real one. There is no contradiction between listening to...

k-punk: dominic, this isn't particularly structural, otm as it might be.