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One might be tempted to say that the LFL is a startling critique of the homoerotic undertones that are rife within men’s American Football. Indeed American Football’s hyper-masculine qualities, its predilection for tight trousers, bottom patting and suggestive positional names (‘tight end’) have long made it an easy target for artists, theorists, critics, or anyone who is not American. Yet while to claim such satirical depths for the LFL would be disingenuous, what the LFL does achieve is equally subversive." Highbrow British art magazine
Frieze discovers the
Lingerie Football League.
Warning: pictures on both links are NSFW.
posted by WPW
on Jan 13, 2010 -
73 comments
In the early days of the occupation of Iraq, a "gathering of antagonists to capital and empire" known as the Retort Collective published
Afflicted Powers, a contentious analysis of September 11th and its aftermath grounded in the Situationist concepts developed by
Guy Debord in
The Society of the Spectacle. Two lengthy excerpts can be read online: an
introduction to the war as a "struggle for mastery in the realm of the image", and a
critique of the "Blood for Oil" argument.
[more inside]
posted by stammer
on Sep 24, 2008 -
26 comments
Not Ready for
Their Close-Up.
Quote: "On the brighter side, TV will lose a certain amount of its power over us - I can promise you that.
HD won't do advertisements quite the same way. Ask any Catholic priest, or Jung, or Scott McLoud about the power of icons, and they'll explain it the same way. Too much detail, and they lose their ability to induce our identification."
posted by gsb
on Jun 14, 2005 -
41 comments
