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i think paul's post kind of exposes the problem: dissensus contains lots of people who know each other as real persons. not unpersons, persons. even people who haven't met have probably encountered each other elsewhere, as i have stelfox, for example. k-punk, as you say, can't handle what he...

I'm reading about him at the mo. The Rouch comparison is interesting, but I think Barthes crucially misunderstood theatre and film, his main influence there being Brecht. The 'death of the author' idea concerns language, and it's very difficult to transfer linguistic theory to film and theatre...

bon jovi: always delivering the goods!

seriously dude you are *far* from alone in sweeney and LGF-love. you shoulda been here round 98-01: between 'lock, stock' and 'loaded' saying 'you ponce' and um hanging people upside down in abattoirs was 'the balls'. 'the sweeney' (even the movies) are all on dvd. prml scrm covered the 'get...

i know what luka means. i think reading eagleton or jameson is non-starter because they are second-order exploiters of other people's ideas, and generally seem to follow the wind. these days eagleton praises raymond williams, e p thompson, et al, but he used to be a total shit about them. why...

the faces of malthus and tebbit lie behind the mask of rationality.

The IRA repreent... the IRA. Hoskins' tragedy is that he cannot escape Britain's past: his Docklands venture is an attempt to build on the proverbial Indian graveyard of the old industrial working class; he attempts to convince the Americans that England is workable. But in the late '70s the IRA...