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Museum of Nature
For those of us around New York, this series by Ilkka Halso is at PS1. Go see it in person!
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 9:53 PM on June 9, 2008
MeFi post:
This are the world.
1) Racism is sometimes not so much denoted by intent as by an adherence to popular reference. This may be ignorance, but it doesn't stop it from adhering to a type of depiction always used to satirize and demean blacks.
2) What really bothers me about blackface is that it represents this notion of abnormality and difference -- that black people have literally something on their face, something opaque, dirt-like, that you rub on top of white skin as to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 10:07 AM on May 26, 2008
Grumblebee says: armchair psychoanalyzing of culture. You make a ton of claims about what how people interpret various acts. How can you possibly know what goes on inside people's heads? On what basis do you assume some sort of uniform view?
Again: passive voice. WHO doesn't mean makeup obscures skin? My guess is that some people wear makeup for exactly that reason. Others wear it for other reasons.
Okay,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 5:26 PM on May 26, 2008
Grumblebee, I apologize for my 'war against racism' snipe, and I appreciate that you're a person levelheaded enough to respond to it civilly.
One thing:
I agree that we (who don't daily suffer racism) have much to learn from others (who do).
Please. Don't do this.
You're assuming that a collective 'we' exists, presumably the readership of Metafilter, and that this... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 10:38 PM on May 27, 2008
MeFi post:
We're all blue from projection tubes
I haven't seen the video yet, but it's been done before, and in a more pertinent context:
FACELESS.
In a society under the reformed 'Real-Time' Calendar, without history nor future, everybody is faceless. A woman panics when she wakes up one day with a face. With the help of the Spectral Children she slowly finds out more about the lost power and history of the human face and begins the search for its future.... [more]
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at 10:42 PM on May 12, 2008
MeFi post:
Free the Amazon One-Click! Long Live Open Source Genes!
What's annoying is when people inject ideology into an area of law that has been and that should be largely free of it.
To see the level of discourse about patent law be reduced to the level of a bad morality play is just sad.
saslett, I understand where you're coming from and mostly agree, but it seems to me strange and dangerous that the words you use implies a separation between ideology and law, and morality and law. You... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 8:53 PM on May 7, 2008
'that the words you use imply...'
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 8:54 PM on May 7, 2008
@saslett: Because the judge has to enforce the law even if he disagrees with it or thinks it's immoral. Again, this shows that law is separate from ideology.
No, it doesn't. There's a meta-ideology that governs our law system by definition -- the ideology of saying "laws must be enforced". Within this ideology, there are laws created on the basis of 'lower-level' ideologies -- thou shalt not murder, property is a personal possession, etc.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 6:32 PM on May 8, 2008
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"The events of 1968 marked the birth of globalization."
Where did I say I think that? You're batting about .005 on putting accurate meanings to the things I've written. Why don't you just go with the words I used, instead of making shit up.
Kirth Gerson, will all due respect, your point is that you disagree with Kazin and think that 'most Americans' are not enjoying more freedom than they did in the 60s. To back this up, your two arguments are 1) most legal battles were over by the 60s,... [more]
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at 6:16 PM on May 8, 2008
I just realized that 'craichead' and 'suedehead' look very similar -- I'm not craichead, just to dispel any potential confusions..
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at 6:18 PM on May 8, 2008
MeFi post:
Abortion as Art
Inflammatory political statement meant to induce controversy does not equal art.
Sure it can. Look at the Futurists. Art, especially postwar art, has always been about politics (or anti-politics), spectacle, etc. xod gets it right.
I mean, come on, all of Metafilter. What do you think art is? The notion of art as beautiful, romantic, dependent on the skill of the artist, a window into the world, a mark of the artist's psyche,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 10:06 AM on April 17, 2008
LooseFilter: In fact, the commodification of art is a relatively recent phenomenon
but the ideas that art must be 'relevant', or that any 'autonomous' art is necessarily a status pawn is as stale as the perspectives from previous centuries which you decry
the "post-modern" view of art is almost entirely intended to incite desire or argument (pornographic or didactic, in Joyce's terms). This... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 6:47 PM on April 17, 2008
LooseFilter, thanks for your response!
you are speaking of the esteem placed upon a work of art by those who receive it, not the intent of the artist, and my comments have to do only with the artist's intent.
I think that any discussion of an art as 'commodity' immediately involves an examination of the entire economic and social system involved in creating and buying art, and I'm not sure how such a discussion can only focus... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 9:37 PM on April 17, 2008
MeFi post:
Postmuddleism is not dead, yet....
That was a great summary, but two things: It really jars on me how both Fish and Cusset talk about French Theory as if it were a Some Very Specific French Thing Versus America. Also, Fish gets Butler and Scott wrong -- they're not "criticizing something because it is socially constructed", they are undergoing a "critical interrogation" of the process of social construction. Critical, as in Frankfurt-School/Enlightenment-critical, not as in the usual... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 8:47 AM on April 7, 2008
MeFi post:
That's a lot of green
Yep, had the same reaction too. I read the I'm older than most of you, you young'uns are missing perspective parts and instantly knew who it was.
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 12:34 AM on April 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Habla Ingles or You Ain't Getting No Cheesesteak
I speak two languages and have lived in two cultures, not by choice, but by upbringing. I've lived in the US half of my life, and I also have no related family (including my parents) who are American. I'm a semi-immigrant, in that sense.
I'm also sick and fucking tired of seeing immigrants* get here, learn English, have kids, then have those kids discriminate against immigrants who haven't learned English yet. It's this strange rite-of-passage thing, and the same... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 10:25 AM on March 20, 2008
I don't see it as an attack. I just personally think that part of the reason why Asian and Hispanic immigrants aren't see as "real" Americans is because some of them don't take the effort to learn English and integrate with American society.
Okay, but aren't Spanish-speaking Hispanic-Americans (pardon the tautology) still Americans? Aren't they participating in a Spanish-speaking American society? The same goes for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 3:54 PM on March 20, 2008
MeFi post:
Winter Soldier... A shape with lion body and the head of a man
Ah, fuck, what the fuck? There's so much fucked-up shit going on that I feel like everybody's outrage-meter has shutdown into denial -- or, at least, it feels like that in my case. This is one of those pieces of journalism that revives my emotion towards this war. Thanks, Huplescat.
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 10:12 PM on March 18, 2008
MeFi post:
Shepard Fairey, Plagiarist?
Yeah, not sure what the big deal is. Fairey's angle is "appropriate-aesthetic-for-propaganda". The only part of his work that makes his stuff into art is the fact that the images he appropriates (whether originally propaganda or art) are turned into semi-faux-propaganda for his own cause.
It's like the readymade - the appropriation is the point, and the art is secondary.
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 4:32 PM on March 18, 2008
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"Just go to Gooniizu. I love Gooniizu."
I guess I'm the person who has to step in and say, "meh."?
Really, this story was: "I teach ESL! Japanese people have strange attachments to our culture and pronounce things differently in italics! This girl is quirky and strange but despite all of these differences we are united by the Goonies! Through pop culture we unite and have this sense of cameraderie! As friends beyond language and culture barriers, we drive into the setting sun!... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 10:18 PM on March 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Things Vital to the Honor of Human Life
"It was so humid some nights you could not close your door. You had to shoulder your door closed. Bridges expanded and sidewalks cracked and there was garbage in the streets and you had to sort of talk to your door before it would close for you.
She loved the nights that were electrical, a static in the air and lightning in soft pulses, in great shapeless beats, you can almost read the rhythmic pattern, slow and protoplasmal, and maybe Cinzano awning fixed to a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 10:12 PM on March 9, 2008
krakedhalo, here's another Rushdie line. A bit cheesy, but I like it nonetheless:
These things are bad for you: sex, high-rise buildings, chocolate, lack of exercise, dictatorship, racism! No, au contraire. Celibacy damages the brain, high-rise buildings bring us closer to God, tests show that a bar of chocolate a day significantly improves children's academic performance, exercise kills, tyranny is just a part of our culture so I'll thank you to keep... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 4:59 PM on March 10, 2008
MeFi post:
VVork
Nice, although it bothers me how it 'exhibits' each piece of art with a single image, as if the aesthetic content is all that matters. No materials, no statement, etc.
I did find this piece by Xu Zhen, which I thought was a nice Damien Hirst parody (that's not Zhen's normal style, btw). Materials: glass container, meat, formaldehyde, etc.
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 4:24 PM on March 2, 2008
It's the philistines that need their hand held with materials lists, artist statements, and all those other tacked on words that allow quick compartmentalization.
Guh. I completely, absolutely disagree. Don't you want to know the intention behind the art, at all? If you believe that context is unimportant and that "you actually need to go and see art, in person", you're doing the same; by believing that art is transcendent, your personal... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 6:46 PM on March 2, 2008
MeFi post:
half-baked food for thought
Although pretty simplified, I found the essay mildly appreciatable. What most people in this thread (and Motokawa himself) seem to be missing is that Motokawa's really talking about a Christian West vs. a Zen Buddhist East, which is quite specific.
His notions of a Christian West and all remind me of a Marxist critique of religion, as well as Marcuse's similarly Marxist critique of culture. Apply that to science and ultra-simplify, and you get one half of Motokawa's essay.
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 3:07 PM on February 24, 2008
MeFi post:
New York Talk Exchange
Man, I've been waiting for that MoMA exhibition for a bit - thanks for the link! I wish there was an interactive portion online, though.
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 10:17 PM on February 20, 2008
MeFi post:
Every scene must turn...
Videogames will never be art, as long as the critical theory and thought process behind the creation of videogames is nonexistent, or limited to "hey, let's make a game that's awesome!".
Ive played Shadow of the Colossus, and I understand the awe and amazement that people are talking about, but that's it: the enjoyment of the videogame consists only of a "WTF that's HUGE" reaction. Granted, this reaction is somewhat akin to of the sensation of the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 7:05 PM on February 19, 2008
MeFi post:
I believe that literature is working, even amidst this chaos, with a power that can change the world.
Incredible. If anybody's interested, here's the Korean language interview, which seems to have been originally conducted in English. There's actually a lot that the blogger didn't translate. Here's some bits I thought were nice and interesting and weren't translated. (Sorry for the quick translation):
JYL: What about the newspapers? Doesn't the Japanese media like to create debates between novelists and feminists, novelists and politicians?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 11:04 AM on February 1, 2008
MeFi post:
Lights on in the Darkroom
I was going to say something all mean and nippy about how Benjamin's essay is really translated as "..age of its mechanical reproducibility", but actually, the collection of photos do invoke the darkroom really strongly. I almost smell the sour smell of fixer. Mmm.
Here's to those alchemists still working in chemical darkrooms, turning celluloid and silver halides into magic. *raises glass*
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 11:14 PM on January 28, 2008
MeFi post:
Let's go. We can't. Why not?
Here's a better article from the New York Times talking about Paul Chan and Godot. Brought to you by the respectable organization Creative Time, who also produced the "A Psychic Vacuum" exhibit/piece, as well as the Sleepwalkers film on the MoMA, and the more well-known Tribute in Light.
(I'm not related to the organization, just an ardent appreciator of the work they do.)... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 12:28 AM on January 8, 2008
(I mean - not a better article, but just another one. Thanks for your post, Bromius!)
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 12:29 AM on January 8, 2008
In case any of the wankers from Creative Time are reading this, I'll clue you in a bit: the existential dread, the emptiness of being, the sadness and horrendously vacuous pain, all those things that you thought you found in New Orleans weren't there before you got there. You brought them from home.
Wow, what hostility. Koeselitz, did you even read the New York Times article about Chan? Also, Creative Time produced the piece: your anger should be... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 4:36 PM on January 8, 2008
koeselitz - I'm touched by your response, but please don't be sorry. I know exactly what you meant, because when I first heard of the staging of the play in New Orleans I was enthralled, then immediately wary. Fortunately, it seems that there was a large amount of thought and dialogue behind everything...
Thank you for the anecdote -- it's really haunting, and I'll be thinking about it all week.
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 9:57 AM on January 9, 2008
MeFi post:
Seven sex offenders, one house.
I hate to add to what is already a convoluted and twisted thread, but just wanted to say to humannaire: in this comment, you still haven't explained why rapists aren't persons.
Here's your argument, summarized:
1) human-ness is genetic
2) a person is a human who happens to have the rights to be a person
3) rapists are not persons, should be killed.
In essence, it seems that your ideas are Hobbesian in that you... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 10:29 AM on January 7, 2008
MeFi post:
Keys to the Kingdom
I still haven't read the article, but I saw the photograph on the first page and thought "wow" -- then realized that they were taken by Annie Leibovitz! Great photographs.
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 11:07 AM on January 4, 2008
MeFi post:
Mom & Pop <3 Starbucks
Yeah, weebot, agreed - Coffee Bean is a pretty big chain, especially in Asia - not really a 'independent mom-and-pop coffee shop'.
Also, the article seems geared towards a suburban drive-your-car-there dynamic. Cafes/coffeeshops in Manhattan suck. I know of only 5 really good non-Starbucks cafes in Manhattan (that's from Inwood to Tribeca), not counting those restaurants named 'caffes' which actually serve $15 lunch entrees. I attribute this to high rent, and the fact... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by suedehead
at 8:51 PM on December 30, 2007
