Posts by giovanni tiso
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perhaps said stilettos are a conspiracy by the patriarchy to keep me constantly off balance.
Darn, she's onto us guys. Go to plan... what is it now? K?
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for those who prefer their theory in the bedroom.
La Philosophie dans le Boudoir? I'm a little scared of what Emma could do with that.
the market is mercurial,
(and I ain't talkin' Hermes)Oh, man...
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Bravo, mon brave! But I'm not so sure it's not Saussure?
Ah, but what about Les Mots et les choses? The early Foucault positively outsaussures Saussure. Plus Foucaltian slip sounded better.
Cool thread. How did we get onto this then?
Emma is fifteen different kinds of awesome.
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I thought Giovanni might enjoy that typo.
Verily! I think we've just invented the Foucaltian slip.
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Now, I am no expert on this; but, anyway, my personal (generalising, not very good, simplistic) model is that there is an originating scene, which tends to be quite innovative and radical. This scene is often altruistic etc., although you have to be careful about assuming that. This then grows and becomes commercialised, at which point it becomes a trend and a marketable commodity and goes mainstream, and then you have successfully turned rebellion into money. You can skip the altruistic bit if you want, and just go straight into the commodification, which is called pop.
Hard to quarrel with, very nicely put.
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But nobody has to be profiting off one part of a Look for it be profitable to sell the Look as a whole & Looks are very much sold to the public.
By whom? It seems to me that certain looks originate within groups and than spread.
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Can you do school vouchers next?
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It was carefully constructed satire.
Sonofa... Who are you, Rob Lowe in The West Wing?
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Is the jury not still out on media effects? The effect of violence in the media etc?
Very much so, and it will remain out for a while longer I would think. How do you disambiguate the evidence? How do you separate actual effects from perceived or self-reported effects? How do you prevent Oliver Stone for making dross like Natural Born Killers?
There are brutal societies with little or no access to television sets, just as there was fashion long before we came up with advertising. Which proves nothing in and of itself, but suggests that things are more complicated than we might be sometimes tempted to think.
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There's that magical word we can't stop using: 'agency'.
That's why they call them advertising agencies.
Zing!