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bombay right now then coimbatore then ooty then delhi then dubai then nyc, all internet free. feeding on postco propaganda, all calorie free.
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THINGS THAT WILL HAPPEN ON 08/08/08
- The Olympics start. I think the Olympic Ring Bike is kind of amazing. Usually I associate the Olympics with Bombay, mad humidity and my grandmother’s house with rattan paneling on the walls. Don’t know that I’ll see any of this episode though. - This film premieres in NYC. It describes itself as being “rooted in the DIY subcultures of skateboarding, hiphop, punk and graffiti” and celebrates “the spirit behind today’s most influential cultural movement“. I’d daresay reality TV trumps these today, but either way, - I will be on a transatlantic flight to a wedding in Surrey, then Dubai and maybe South India for a few weeks. - After having presumably bombed the Arabic oral which is in 9 hours (but unwritten) and the final exam the next day. Oh dear? |
THE ARTWORK FOR THE FILM GOT ME THINKING ABOUT REVOLUTIONARY AESTHETICS, THOUGH
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: aesthetics, ☭☭☭, bakunin, columbia, elitism, freedom, intellectualism, socialism
Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, and socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality
I found this at yesyes, and am reminded of a favourite Mikhail Bakunin quote. Pretty different aesthetics, or maybe not, but take your pick.
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These images from Chinese performance artist Li Wei are pretty sick. According to the aesthetic poetic, it’s all mirrors, metal wires and scaffolding to create these illusions. Maybe it’s unfortunate that in pictures, they could pass as being photoshopped; I’d love to see this in person. Someday?
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When did dot.coms become dot.cons? Who beat the beatniks into conservative consumerism? And who made adbusters – with their $50 *nobrand* black-dot-anticonsumerist sneakers – the token cultural messiah du jour anyway? Douglas Haddow is a smart, smart man (of course). And this article, Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization is kind of incredible, in a disdainfully self referential soul crushing kind of way.
The dance floor at a hipster party looks like it should be surrounded by quotation marks.
