January 2011
37 posts
Jacques Ranciere on Democracies Against Democracy →
“It is not in the least evident to me that democracy enjoys total unquestioning support. Things were different during the cold war, when it was democracy versus totalitarianism. But since the Berlin Wall fell, what we’ve witnessed in the countries we call “the democracies” has been a mistrustful and faintly or openly derisive attitude toward democracy.” —Jacques Rancière
In Democracy in What...
“I’m not sentimental—I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via human-voices)
WatchJames Franco Talks Sex Tape With Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth - E! Online
“Just because you’re offended—it doesn’t mean you’re in the right.”
– Ricky Gervais (via gingerfu)(via neonloneliness)
Reynolds Price, 1933-2011 →
portraitoftheartistasayoungman:
Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Reynolds Price, the North Carolina novelist and Duke professor.
WatchPitchfork says:
There’s no gratuitous nudity in Matt & Kim’s new video for “Cameras”, but there’s plenty of gratuitous violence. In director Jonathan Del Gatto’s clip, the members of the synth-punk duo (and, one hopes, their stuntpeople) use everything in their practice space to brutalize the living shit out of each other. Kim’s kickdrum pedal to...
hipstertracks:
The Mountain Goats – Damn These...
Deconstructing Ricky
C.M. Tomlin, at the wonderful Brown Tweed Society, has posted what I believe to be the most insightful analysis of Ricky Gervais’s hosting of the Golden Globes, far outpacing the mainstream press in terms of placing the host’s comments within their proper context, judging them on their merits, and celebrating the sheer bloody-mindedness of the comments themselves. As I mentioned on...
Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks. Slavoj Zizek...
deathisprogress:
theguywhoinventedfire:
In one of the diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks Putin and Medvedev are compared to Batman and Robin. It’s a useful analogy: isn’t Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’s organiser, a real-life counterpart to the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight? In the film, the district attorney, Harvey Dent, an obsessive vigilante who is corrupted and himself...
Watchsixtyfourteen: PJ Harvey - “The Words That Maketh Murder”
Beaten down by the great defeats of utopian...
Watchathensmusicandarts:
“Athens Burning,” a feature-length documentary about the history of the Athens music scene centered around the history of the Georgia Theatre, will be playing Jan. 14-21 at Beechwood Cinemas.
January means another opportunity to regurgitate my cultural consumption for the past year into digestible chucks of better and best. It’s not something I enjoy doing all that much, simply because I don’t think (or, try not to think) in terms of “best” and my tastes are such that, in the year-end glut of online pontificating, every hipsteresque hyperbolic hypertexter has...
