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I dig his rhythm, always done
in dub we trust
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I just read Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power & Bare Life . It is intriguing.
I'm currently reading Flannery O'Connor's short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. Brilliant, but awfully bleak.
I'm currently reading Flannery O'Connor's short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. Brilliant, but awfully bleak.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
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Nikolas Vitus Lagartija
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Interesting article on The State of Goth on the Grammy website of all places : http://www.grammy.com/news/the-state-of-goth.
Time for a lifetime achievement award ?
Time for a lifetime achievement award ?
When drugged-up Time Traveller and '80s musical burnout Rock Section and his fellow English hooligans get kidnapped during Italia '90, there are ruinous implications. But now Rock has returned to Sardinia one final time to settle some scores and uncover the truth. He believes only Dutch cult leader Judge Barry Hertzog, still incarcerated on the island for the crime, can provide the answers. But through drugs, the persistence of his driver Anna and a quest for the hidden ancient doorways strewn around Sardinia's only highway, the 131, Rock will discover that a greater truth awaits him.
Judgement, consequences, hoodwinking on a grand scale, Gnosticism versus agnosticism … 131 is a Gnostic whodunit that pursues readers' memories of all previous fiction into a peat bog and impales them with seven-foot-long pikes.
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Silver_Owl
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And?
We forgive as we forget
As the day is long.
As the day is long.
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Dr. Moody
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Hi Sultan, you may be interested in this..sultan2075 wrote:I just read Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power & Bare Life . It is intriguing.
I'm currently reading Flannery O'Connor's short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. Brilliant, but awfully bleak.
http://www.documenta12.de/leitmotive.html?&L=1
Documenta 12 used "Bare Life" as one of it's themes, some of it very successfully.
Many thanks!
I'm still Reading itHom_Corleone wrote:And?
So far it reminds me of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (for the Road Novel/Drugs aspect) and Glue (for the 1980's/1990's flashbacks) by Irvine Welsh.
You can read the 1st 5 chapters on Amazon where after the 1st Chapter (it's only 2 pages) you should just stop and go and buy yourself a copy. I'm 100 pages in and so far it's thoroughly enjoyable
http://thequietus.com/articles/15594-ju ... -interview
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047lqcf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048ry5p
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Silver_Owl
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Excellent. Thanks Si; great article.
I shall order it - looks suitably Cope-esque.
I shall order it - looks suitably Cope-esque.
We forgive as we forget
As the day is long.
As the day is long.
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sultan2075
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Interesting - and related to Agamben, I'd say, who finds the concentration camp and the "state of exception" to be the fundamental condition of the modern state. I'm sympathetic to his critiques, though I haven't read a lot of the guys he refers to in Homo Sacer (like Benjamin or Schmitt. Schmitt is probably next on the list, though).Dr. Moody wrote:Hi Sultan, you may be interested in this..sultan2075 wrote:I just read Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power & Bare Life . It is intriguing.
I'm currently reading Flannery O'Connor's short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. Brilliant, but awfully bleak.
http://www.documenta12.de/leitmotive.html?&L=1
Documenta 12 used "Bare Life" as one of it's themes, some of it very successfully.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
I bought my copy in my local Waterstones, but I've just seen that you can order a signed copy from the publishers hereHom_Corleone wrote:Excellent. Thanks Si; great article.
I shall order it - looks suitably Cope-esque.
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Silver_Owl
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Cool. Thanks mate. That's a birthday present sorted.Big Si wrote:I bought my copy in my local Waterstones, but I've just seen that you can order a signed copy from the publishers hereHom_Corleone wrote:Excellent. Thanks Si; great article.
I shall order it - looks suitably Cope-esque.
We forgive as we forget
As the day is long.
As the day is long.
i am reading this atm
'Are we the Baddies?'...
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
I've been into Public Enemy for a while and this is a good read and does give some food for thought. The best bits cover the PE/Anthrax tour and then goes onto mention touring with The Sisters with Eldritch getting alot of respect from Chuck D. It's a pity he then goes on discuss touring with U2 and going all gushy over Bonio
It kinda discredits the nice things he said about Eldritch As a matter of interest did anyone here see TSOM and PE?
Anger Is An Energy
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Silver_Owl
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I've got that at home - on my 'to read' list.
And no, alas I did not.
And no, alas I did not.
We forgive as we forget
As the day is long.
As the day is long.
Wonderful reading
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fiction -currently revisiting this, a book i first received as an xmas present 30 years ago:
fact - going through these (in parts) as part of my re-examination of the 100 years war:
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fact - going through these (in parts) as part of my re-examination of the 100 years war:
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Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
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I've just finished "CONQUEST" by Juliet Barker which deals with the 100 Years War post 1415 - that was rather good
Well you must know something
'Cos we're dying of admiration here
Mastering obscure alternatives
'Cos we're dying of admiration here
Mastering obscure alternatives
Biography (with fictional details) "Lucky" Luciano by Paul Sherman (although I can't find English title inside, but guy also wrote biography of Houdini). So far (in about 1/3) nice to read, some interesting details.
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An unusual travelogue and the chapters on Ukraine (written after the orange revolution) make for interesting reading in the light of recent events.
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Silver_Owl
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Not a fan of The Charlatans particularly - but an interesting read.
We forgive as we forget
As the day is long.
As the day is long.
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Just finished China Mieville's Perdido Street Station.
Whoa.
Whoa.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
—Bertrand Russell