April 2010
21 posts
Against ambulatory prisons! For sedentary ones!
‘Belgium’s French-speaking liberals, who proposed the veil law, argued that an inability to identify people who have hidden their faces presents a security risk and that the veil was a “walking prison” for women.
…Wearing the facial veil, known as the niqab, and the body-length outer garment, or burqa, widely worn in Afghanistan, could lead to fines of 15-25 euros...
Genealogies of enchantment
Now, predictable, disposable, eternal.
Kiss me...
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‘Europe’s airlines and airports...
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Prepitaph
‘Even if one cannot hew a house out of a granite cliff, one could perhaps hew the ruins of a house out of it at no very great expense, so that posterity would be forced to believe a palace had stood there.’
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg exorcises Hauntology two centuries before it is born.
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Conspiracies & theories
‘[W]hat this book is about is why perfectly intelligent people can believe perfectly ridiculous things’.
David Aaronovitch, 30/1/10, poses a question.
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‘There are entire societies where the default position is to believe in conspiracy theories, like in Pakistan or Iran. … But they’re also probably more easily dispelled, especially in places...
¡No pasarán!
The Cunning Stunts of Reaction
A limp controversy putters over the ostentatious deployment, in Kick-Ass, the movie of the comic of the fantasy, of the epithet ‘c*nts’ by an 11-year-old girl. The ‘debate’, whether it is outrage at the viralling of profanity or eye-rolling insouciance at the squares’ foofaraw, man, is about vulgarity.
Far less noted is the sheer national misplacedness of the...
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Fashion forward
Punk Flappers.
You’re welcome.
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It’s funny because it’s true! Awesome....
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The sad necessity of empire
‘If it’s Haitian people [ - who ‘drift with no purpose’ -] taking care of the money, they will only take care of their clan’.
Really the US has no choice but to take control. More control, that is. ’Can Bill Clinton Keep Corruption in Haiti in Check?’ Oh, can he can he? Because unlike the purposeless & drifting Haitians, American...
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‘The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes; but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet-show, and at the same time know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.’
Mary Wortley Montagu
“What are pictures called?” she asks.
“Pictures?” says papa. “What are pictures called? One mustn’t say pictures! One must say pictures.”
At this moment Jacqueline comes in. Josette races toward her and says to her: “You know, Jacqueline, pictures aren’t pictures. Pictures are pictures.”
“Ah,” Jacqueline says, “more of...
March 2010
19 posts
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