May 2012
41 posts
culturite:
Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise
The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Noise 1. Paul Hegarty, ‘A Chronic Condition: Noise and Time’ 2. Scott Wilson, ‘Amusia, Noise and the Drive’ 3. Brian Massumi, ‘Floating the Social: An Electronic Art of Noise’ 4. Cecile Malaspina, ‘The Noise Paradigm’ 5. Dean Lockwood, ‘Mongrel Vibrations: H. P. Lovecraft’s Weird...
U.H.N.W.I.’s
“Art is often valuable precisely because it isn’t a sensible way to make money. And perhaps as a result, it has become even more valuable of late. Benjamin Mandel, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has been studying the art market because, he says, “it’s a great way to study asset price valuations.” Mandel read reports suggesting that the market was growing at an...
Raqs Media Collective The Primary Education of the... →
Check it out, if you’re in town.
Alain Badiou: a life in writing | Culture | The... →
towerofsleep:
The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.” Love’s work consists in conquering that fright. Badiou cites Mallarmé, who saw poetry as “chance defeated word by word”. A loving relationship is similar. “In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of...
Tassels
Following this self-promotion, I’ve been listening to Tassels since, and really enjoying them.
Lungfish - I Will Walk Between You (from A.C.R....
becoming-wave:
Wow. Apparently McGill only pays TAs $25 an hour… which sounds good… except that the job is only like 10 hours a week. And for comparison, U of T pays TAs from $42-46 an hour. Feeling pretty good about my choices right now.
Exactly. If only those protesting students would accept their tuition increase, then maybe TAs could get paid a better wage. Hippies!
R.I.P.
Chuck Brown and Donna Summer. Historical Soul, R&B, and their many fine derivatives are taking a beating.
Why not.... →
From the Federal NDP: Speaking out on the Conservative Budget.
Photos: B.C.s richest people →
And other important facts.
New song is up on Spin lol →
Lol? Kids these days….
towerofsleep:
“Unlike the degree-wielding barista, who has become a symbol of recession-era youth, we’re doing these manual labor jobs in semi-secret. Not many of us are tweeting about moving boxes or under-the-table landscaping gigs.”
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Heavy Lifting: Why I Chose Manual Labor Over Making Lattes - News - GOOD
My first piece for GOOD.
(via aaronleaf)
Great article, Aaron! Last month I read...
R.I.P.
Donald “Duck” Dunn.
Is there possibly a dumber notion than that of a... →
lukesimcoe:
Cuz you know… eating food and conspicuous consumption are just soooo subversive.
Art star?
$3,666,500
Dead Troops make serious cash.
Get Cracking!
towerofsleep:
“The archive is primarily a formal structure governing transformation of present records into storehouses of the past. Every operation in an archive is dedicated to this reordering. What happens when art, characterised by its development of alternative forms unfamiliar to conventional ways of ordering, or even by disorder, encounters the archive?”
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Wolfgang Ernst, “Art Of The...
“My reason for beginning with things is two-fold: First, I believe now, more than...”
– Bennett: MOO (Materialist-Oriented Ontology) « Larval Subjects .
THIS IS WHAT I WANT OUT OF SPECULATIVE REALISM/OOO. I guess I’m on team Bennett/Bryant then. The utter dismissal of constructivism and post-structuralism some of the other thinkers in this area (such as Harman) make just...
“Sexuality” is a monstrosity, whether in its restrictive forms, or in its...”
– felix guattari, “to have done with the massacre of the body” (1973)
lol so guattari wrote in one essay like everything i’ve been thinking about for months COOL
(via pussy-strut)
By the way, how does one know or have or be or whatever the (I’m assuming somehow unadulterated)...
That's why he's screaming!
The Scream fetches $119.9M US in record art auction, says the CBC. Economic instability is oddly good for art markets, says Morley Safer (noted art commentator).
May Day fun?
Are you in Vancouver? You could try this option:
Enjoy May Day evening with us at Roy G Biv
n.213 - solo punk electronics from Shearing Pinx guitarist
Ecstatic Volunteer Orchestra - mysterious ensemble featuring a sampling of Vancouver’s up and coming finest.
holzkopf + botfly + poib fehr + matt watson - free improv sights and sounds Video projections and surprise occurrences!
Doors...
April 2012
41 posts
And by the way....
From CBC news:
Canadian banks got $114B ‘bailout’ during recession: Support for banks ‘much more substantial than Canadians were led to believe’: CCPA report.
Nice to see the CBC flexing a little in advance of the cuts. Alas….
Tower of Sleep: Some nicknames I have had, in... →
towerofsleep:
Sirloin (or Sir Loin) Used exclusively by Annie Roper. I like it for obvious reasons.
Twizzler Used mainly by Jonny Payne.
Salty Coined (I believe) by Jill Orsten or Bitsy Knox as a result of me imploring them to stop calling me “Sally”. I like it much better than Sally. Sizzler Mainly a…
Just think: if your name was Steve, I would have called you Saelan. Them’s...
Now he's trying to win Quebec?
“Quebec headed for independence, Ignatieff tells U.K. broadcaster.”
That’s a very impressive strategy. Hang in there, dude.