Posts by stephen walker
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Excellent post Emma, and even better comments thread everyone!
FWIW, I think that Jolisa's comment at the top of page 2 articulates exceptionally well what I would say if I tried to post anything of substance on this topic. And since I am not really up to that, here is her comment again, because it is worth repeating, IMHO:
Thanks Emma and Anjum for both sets of links. I'm tending to Anjum's side of things, if only because I'm old-fashioned and useless at pole-dancing.
Which is not to say sex-negative. Just questioning the excessive public commodification of desire, which has always struck me as a largely private thing.
And the commodification of pretty much anything will tend to map onto already established isobars of power, as inflected by gender, race, socioeconomic status, etc etc etc. Or is it a chicken and egg thing, and those fault lines create the commodification in the first place? In any case, claims of empowerment inside that structure might well be approached sceptically.
I also think the commodification thing is particularly relevant.
And finally, Stan Goff
is the feminist writer I respect the most. -
protest parks.
yeah, right.the economic and social model pursued by china for the past 20 years is so f-ed up and doomed to collapse under the weight of its own corruption and ecological destructiveness that, well, it's hardly worth commenting on.
except that its demise is going to have some ramifications for all of us, to put it mildly...
(btw, the IOC is probably the most corrupt of all large international organisations, so they really do make a lovely couple, CCP+IOC)
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<quote>Adrian Sherwood and Tackhead at the powerstation
I was at that gig as well; it was my 27th birthday and I also reviewed it for Real Groove.
A Japanese band called Audio Active went on first. They were all dressed in white boiler suits and their first song was a humungous drone with the lyrics "free marijuana, free marijuana, free marijuana...". They were great.Sherwood and Tackhead were amazing, great stuff.<quote>
Me too.
Chatted with some of the Audio Active guys later on cause I had seen them a couple of times at Liquid Room in Shinjuku so I knew they were a good warm-up act.Missed African Head Charge, but one of my mates still raves about that gig.
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i hardly think there is any danger of Beijing becoming the next Tokyo.
maybe if you're really lucky, it will be the next Singapore, except with more than one season and plenty of yellow dust. You know, officious Chinese making as many rules as they can think of, and enforcing them. Something to look forward to.
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Nice summary Alex.
The only thing I have to add is..
Someone stood down NORAD for a few hours.
Certainly worked out well for PNAC's "new Pearl Harbor".
How convenient.
But of course it was a cock-up. Not intentional. Oh no. Never. -
the Thread That Ate Tokyo
first Godzilla, now PAS!?
what did we do to deserve this?
we're just trying to get through this stinking hot summer in one piece... -
Oh, there are people who've been here for ages who get carried away all the time ...
and some who are ascorted to a safer environment by nice people in white coats. it's just those stains they leave on the carpet that worry me...
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this is now keeping me from outrageous fortune
a true martyr to the cause.
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It is what it is: a damn solid look at what the guy comes from and what he's about.
minority report.
lol.
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So many absolutely heinous linguistical crimes, recorded for prosterity, what a quantum effort by yous all!
If I was American, I'd call it a "bunch"!
Oh no, my brain might explode!
Alas, the worse crime of all has not been noted.
One to which I am radioactively exposed daily in my dangerous line of work."Going forward, ..."
My brain just exploded, and I ran out of explanation marks. Not points. Period. Fullstop. End of story.
(p.s. when did NZers start saying "pissed" when they mean "pissed off"? Surely this marks the beginning of a nucular winter? Or peak oil? Answers on the back of a postcard to...)