posts tagged ‘politics’
Fiction and paper on a summer’s day
5 July 2011 • readings
tags: books, drugs, fantasy, fiction, humour, life, murder, novels, politics, religion, sex
[just ten, in no particular order]
The Toy Collector, James Gunn.
The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi.
The Monk, Matthew G. Lewis.
Vurt, Jeff Noon.
Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl.
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts, Thomas De Quincey.
The Cutting Room, Louise Welsh.
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino.
Leviathan, Paul Auster.
No-actuar
29 June 2011 • out of context
tags: books, philosophy, politics, quotes
“Aplicando al plano político la doctrina del No-actuar, el buen gobernante no debe gobernar, es decir, no debe intervenir, sino respetar el libre curso de los acontecimientos. Entonces la sociedad de los hombres se ordenará por sí misma, de forma espontánea”.
Soundmap of the #spanishrevolution
31 May 2011 • listenings
tags: capitalism, cities, civilization, control, phonography, politics, sound, space
Yes we klang!
More at ./mediateletipos)))
NIMBY: not in my back yard
18 May 2011 • out of context
tags: language, politics, quotes
NIMBY or Nimby is an acronym for the phrase not in my back yard. The term (or the derivative Nimbyism) is used pejoratively to describe opposition by residents to a proposal for a new development close to them. Opposing residents themselves are sometimes called Nimbies.
If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution
18 May 2011 • out of context
tags: activism, control, music, politics, quotes
“I did not believe that a cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things. Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world —prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.”
This incident was the source of a statement commonly attributed to Goldman that occurs in several variants:
If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution!
If I can’t dance, I don’t want your revolution!
If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.
A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.
If there won’t be dancing at the revolution, I’m not coming.
Bandwagon effect
16 March 2011 • out of context
tags: economy, patterns, politics, science
“The bandwagon effect, closely related to opportunism, is a phenomenon —observed primarily within the fields of microeconomics, political science, and behaviorism— that people often do and believe things merely because many other people do and believe the same things. The effect is often called herd instinct, though strictly speaking, this effect is not a result of herd instinct. The bandwagon effect is the reason for the bandwagon fallacy’s success.”
Watchings
6 March 2011 • watchings
tags: activism, apocalypse, capitalism, cinema, consumism, control, copy, data, documentaries, economy, music, politics, sound, television, tv series
• The Walking Dead (2010)
Frank Darabont
• Sound in Context (2009) [watch]
• The Social Network (2010)
David Fincher
• Remington Steele, Seasons 1-5 (1982-1987)
Robert Butler and Michael Gleason
• The Eye of the Heart (2003)
Mark Kidel
• Artscape – Stephen Vitiello – Listening With Intent [watch]
• The New Sound Of Music (1979) [watch]
• SYGNOK & The War For Radical Computer Music (2011) [watch]
• The Future of Art (2011) [watch]
Who said art has to cost money?
30 January 2011 • out of context
tags: appropriationism, cinema, consumism, economy, plagiarism, politics, quotes
“I once found a little excerpt from Balzac. He speaks about a young writer who stole some of his prose. The thing that almost made me weep, he said, “I was so happy when this young person took from me.” Because that’s what we want. We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can’t steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that’s how you will find your voice.
And that’s how you begin. And then one day someone will steal from you. And Balzac said that in his book: It makes me so happy because it makes me immortal because I know that 200 years from now there will be people doing things that somehow I am part of. So the answer to your question is: Don’t worry about whether it’s appropriate to borrow or to take or do something like someone you admire because that’s only the first step and you have to take the first step.
(…)
Artists never got money. Artists had a patron, either the leader of the state or the duke of Weimar or somewhere, or the church, the pope. Or they had another job. I have another job. I make films. No one tells me what to do. But I make the money in the wine industry. You work another job and get up at five in the morning and write your script.
This idea of Metallica or some rock n’ roll singer being rich, that’s not necessarily going to happen anymore. Because, as we enter into a new age, maybe art will be free. Maybe the students are right. They should be able to download music and movies. I’m going to be shot for saying this. But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?
In the old days, 200 years ago, if you were a composer, the only way you could make money was to travel with the orchestra and be the conductor, because then you’d be paid as a musician. There was no recording. There were no record royalties. So I would say, “Try to disconnect the idea of cinema with the idea of making a living and money.” Because there are ways around it.
You have to remember that it’s only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money.”
Toxic Ideas
8 January 2011 • outer
tags: analysis, brain, capitalism, civilization, conscience, control, perception, politics, religion