Does exactly what it says on the tin. Some of the nonsense contained herein may be very loosely related to The Sisters of Mercy, but I wouldn't bet your PayPal account on it. In keeping with the internet's general theme nothing written here should be taken as Gospel: over three quarters of it is utter gibberish, and most of the forum's denizens haven't spoken to another human being face-to-face for decades. Don't worry your pretty little heads about it. Above all else, remember this: You don't have to stay forever. I will understand.
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.
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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.
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.
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
Documenta 12 used "Bare Life" as one of it's themes, some of it very successfully.
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).
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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.
'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."
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?
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.