December 2011
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Love In The Time Of Tumblr « Thought Catalog →
One cannot be expected to march full-bore into an interpersonal relationship based on no common ground. How ill-advised would that be? The issue, however, lies with the fact that where shared obstacles and interests might be enough material to last the star-crossed lovers and hetero life mates of the carefully edited and encapsulated multiverse of film, literature, and story for the brief...
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“The one decisive lesson I think we can draw from the work in molecular genetics...”
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Context matters.
(via thenoobyorker)
I’ve only skimmed the essay thenoobyorker is quoting here, “Getting Over the Code Delusion,” but it looks fantastic.
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“My quick summary of Dude does not immediately suggest that the film offers much...”
– Judith Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure (60)
Will the Leveson inquiry kill celebrity magazines?... →
This year has accelerated the process: squishing the faces of these amateur celeb-lovers in a vice and some eyelid-clamps and forcing them to confront the dark realities of the gossip trade they have been supporting.
Strangely moralizing tone from the ex-editor of Heat here, and strangely uninformed about the state of celebrity journalism. Has he not seen TMZ? No-one needs to be...
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“Not everything in this book falls under the headings of frivolity, silliness, or...”
– Judith Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure
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The GOP's Crackpot Agenda | Politics News |... →
Romney, in a fit of technocratic nonsense, is calling for a cap on regulatory costs, whereby the economic impact of any new regulation must be offset by repealing an established rule. Under his bizarre plan, a Romney administration might pay for new rules against contaminated meat by eliminating the current ban on lead paint in children’s toys.
Haha, this is awesome. Good to know people...
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The best song of 2011? It had to be by Lana Del... →
If I were less lazy, I’d set up a tumblr on which I took every Alexis Petridis column from the Guardian and measured what proportion of it actually discusses the music he’s nominally writing about. In this article it’s, what, maybe three sentences out of five paragraphs?
“In contrast, desublimated sexuality is rampant in O’Neill’s...”
– Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man
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In the words of Foucault, sex is boring
Steve McQueen’s Shame is a porn film with slightly less explicit sex. I mean that structurally: all the woman in the film (with one partial exception) are, as in porn fantasy, immediately compliant and sexually available, and the sex scenes all have the stylized, athletic look of porn. It’s possible that this is intentional, and the film is representing the world as it appears to its...
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Beyoncé, Gaga, Heterosexism, Feminism and Other...
microphoneheartbeats:
So I’m in the middle of a Facebook debate with a friend of mine about Beyoncé that was basically provoked by this article, which he agrees with and has led him to broadly assert that Beyoncé “affirms heteronormative heterosexuality as the sole way for girls to assert their sexuality.” That seemed overly reductive to me, and we’ve been bantering back and forth about it....
Meet the 'Ikea anarchists' | World news | The... →
Another striking thing, given their leftist politics, is their refusal to reject the trappings of consumer capitalism. “You can’t be a communist in a capitalist world,” says Pablo. They shop at Tesco, they happily admit. “That’s what DSG is about aesthetically as well, which is being based in your everyday life. Most people like shopping at Tesco.” Same with...
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“So long as art declines to pass as cognition and is thus separated from...”
– Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment (32-4)
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What Is College For? →
jakke:
I’d suggest that research that doesn’t lead to improvements in the lives of the public (in terms of better technology or more effective policy or a better understanding of current events or whatever) is a really questionable funding priority for any university, especially a publicly funded one. And it’s up to the researchers themselves to demonstrate why their research matters off-campus,...
What Is College For? →
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thenoobyorker:
Our support for higher education makes sense only if we regard this intellectual culture as essential to our society. Otherwise, we could provide job-training and basic social and moral formation for young adults far more efficiently and cheaply, through, say, a combination of professional and trade schools, and public service programs. There would be no need to...
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f(x) (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
The name is a play on the mathematical notation for function, and when input with different ‘x’, there can be many different outcomes. f(x) strives to be the kind of girl group that can change and adapt to many situations.
OMG f(x) were set up by Badiou as a K-Pop brigade of intervention. The K-Pop idol as generic human!
“Compared with online retailers, bookstores present a frustrating consumer...”
– Do people really buy books based on Amazon customer reviews or recommendations? Weird.
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dumbassfils:
adactivity replied to your post: adactivity replied to your post: Feminist Ally I…
The truth is that we will never be free until in our buildings and represented in our media men and women sit together on proud unisex communal toilets, holding hands.
that sounds beautiful
The Socialist Lavatory League.
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“All political economists of any standing admit that the introduction of new...”
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Marx, Capital, Chapter 15 (via rereadingcapital)
FAO people who want OWS to demand full employment.
9 Demands of the 99% →
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Ed Balls is right on the economy – but the public... →
As Adam Lent, the co-author of In the Black Labour – a new paper much discussed in opposition circles – argues, elections are not rounds of Mastermind, with victory awarded to “the smartest guy in the room”. Labour can wave all the charts it likes, but it won’t work if it runs counter to what the public regard as common sense.
Oh for fuck’s sake. If the government...
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“A small handful of SCUM can take over the country within a year by...”
– Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto
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