Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[love detective]

smokedout isn't interested in working class organisation though

fair enough I've just always assumed he is some anti organisation liberal type from his posts and shitty blog

I think this is unfair, both on his politics and blog - you've got this way wrong in my opinion mate

 

[cesare]

I think this is unfair, both on this politics and blog - you've got this way wrong in my opinion mate

Some good coverage on the blog, and great pics.

 

[smokedout]

thanks ld, still at least my blog got mentioned on the penny red thread, does that mean i get some money now and to hang out with molly?

 

[DotCommunist]

thanks ld, still at least my blog got mentioned on the penny red thread, does that mean i get some money now and to hang out with molly?

you get to be at the next book launch

 

[smokedout]

will there be free booze?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I think this is unfair, both on this politics and blog - you've got this way wrong in my opinion mate

fair enough must have changed in the last few years since I last looked

 

[andy2002]

That book about Greece Penny Dreadful and Molly Shoulder Rape worked on is available now apparently...

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14375

 

[Sue]

Sounds like the new, privatised name for something along the lines of Consignia.

 

[DotCommunist]

discordia-eris-kallisti-crabapple. it all makes sense

 

[Fruitloop]

Is it supposed to look like a vagina?

 

[sihhi]

Sorry to smokedout for the derail, but UCU's further education section isn't academics.
Some of them are even JobCentrePlus teachers, which involve having to penalise claimants for non-attendance on lessons or lose the next blocks of teaching. It's all short-term contracts (the longest block is 10 weeks- what can anyone wholly learn in 10 weeks anyway).

Back to Laurie Penny, she is up for an award sponsored by EVRYTHNG,

http://www.commentawards.com/category-shortlists.htm

Commentariat of the Year Sponsored by Jaguar Land Rover
Shortlist: David Aaronovitch, The Times
Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian
Suzanne Moore, Mail on Sunday & The Guardian

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Shortlist: Financial Times
London Evening Standard
The Times

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Shortlist: Coffee House, The Spectator – http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/
Comment is Free, The Guardian & The Observer – www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/uk-edition
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The Sunday Times http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/comment/

Columnist of the Year Sponsored by the Editorial Intelligence ‘ei Digest’
Shortlist: Janet Street-Porter, The Independent on Sunday
Rosamund Urwin, London Evening Standard
Toby Young, The Sun

Business Commentator Sponsored by Taylor Bennett
Shortlist: Christopher Caldwell, Financial Times
Anthony Hilton, London Evening Standard
Michael Skapinker, Financial Times

Media Commentator Sponsored by Vodafone
Shortlist: Peter Preston, The Observer
Hugo Rifkind, The Times
Gideon Spanier, London Evening Standard
Michael Wolff, The Guardian & GQ

Independent Blogger
Shortlist: Emma Burnell, www.scarletstandard.co.uk
Martha Payne, www.neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk
Mic Wright, www.brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com

Mainstream Media Blogger Sponsored by Wardour
Shortlist: Rowenna Davis, New Statesman
Ellie-Mae O’Hagan, The Guardian
Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian

Political Commentator Sponsored by The Journalism Foundation
Shortlist: Matthew D'Ancona, The Sunday Telegraph, GQ & London Evening Standard
Philip Collins, The Times
Tim Montgomerie, The Times

Sketch Commentator
Shortlist: Simon Hoggart, The Guardian
Quentin Letts, Daily Mail
Ann Treneman, The Times

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Louise Mensch MP, @LouiseMensch
Tom Watson MP, @tom_watson

Twitter Public Personality Sponsored by Evrythng
Shortlist: Deborah Orr, @DeborahJaneOrr
Laurie Penny, @PennyRed
Toby Young, @toadmeister

 

[rekil]

Lord Obama is a little bit communism.

 

[weepiper]

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Lord Obama is a little bit communism.

OH GOD

 

[kavenism]

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Lord Obama is a little bit communism.

The stuff Twitter Public Personality awards are made of.

 

[Riklet]

/chundered everywhere.

communist unmanned drones launching the workers' missile.

 

[revol68]

expect a tweet next week about how Obama's predator drone blew up her would be mugger.

 

[Cornetto]

I prefer the brown leather smugness of the Prof to the Laurie Penny hipster awfulness.

 

[The39thStep]

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Lord Obama is a little bit communism.

Obama picked that look up from me when he popped into The Headless Chicken to watch the 3.30 from Kempton

 

[love detective]

Leg 2 of the Grand Free European Tour begins. Goodbye London, hello Bologna, then Paris, then Athens, Piraeus, Berlin, Leipzig, Koln.

voice of the oppressed

Really really frustrated that I've had so many meetings and so much travel the past 4 days that I haven't been able to write anything. Ugh

has it's plus sides though

 

[rekil]

Amazon book blurb.

In July 2012, artist Molly Crabapple and journalist Laurie Penny travelled to Greece. There, they drew and interviewed anarchists, autonomists, striking workers and ordinary people caught up in the Euro crisis. DISCORDIA is the result. In an impassioned climate where ‘objective’ journalism is impossible, Penny and Crabapple offer a snapshot of a nation in the grip of a very modern crisis where young and old see little reason to go on, the left is scattered and the far right is assuming greater power and influence. Along the way they drink far too much coffee, become hypnotised by street art, and somehow manage not to get arrested or mugged.

DISCORDIA weaves together the personal and political, picking out those elements of the Greek crisis that are recognisable across the West to a generation struggling to articulate its purpose in a world of spiralling unemployment, democratic collapse and civil unrest. The solutions to the failure of modern neoliberal statecraft are very different to the 'tune in, turn on, drop out' ethos of the sixties: these days the drugs are worse and rock 'n' roll can't save us. The future is a question in search of an answer.

'This is the Next Big Thing in journalism: digital, visual, intelligent, heartfelt, post-political, female, alarming, and engaging. It's both an honest chronicle of one corner of the collapse of a civilization, and an inspiring demonstration of the kinds of thinking, craft, and collaboration that might yet get us through.' Douglas Rushkoff, author of LIFE INC.

It's crying out for some of those comedy reviews.

They were in Greece for what, 3 or 4 days? That "somehow manage not to get arrested or mugged" bit, a direct quote from Laura rather than de rigueur publisher bullshit, is particularly telling. We are danger, but afraid of dirty forrin thieving poors.

 

[DaveCinzano]

They were in Greece for what, 3 or 4 days?

Certainly under a week:

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
En route to Athens. I have bought Fifty Shades of Grey for the plane. If I write about it that means it's For Work and noone can mock me.
4:02 PM - 4 Jul 12 ·

https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/220533043948036096

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
Have done 25 interviews in 3 days. Good practice. Leaving Athens tomorrow for Munich. Exhausted and dicking around in the hotel.
7:13 PM - 9 Jul 12 ·

https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/222393166148534273

 

[where to]

Amazon book blurb.

Is that for real?

Isn't poverty exciting. The next big thing.

 

[rekil]

Is that for real?

Isn't poverty exciting. The next big thing.

Here it is. None more post-political.

 

[butchersapron]

Her style is casual yet articulate

Hey, that's my style
#

 

[weepiper]

an inspiring demonstration of the kinds of thinking, craft, and collaboration that might yet get us through.

I see the rich privately educated people are going to save us all from ourselves again.

 

[butchersapron]

I see the rich privately educated people are going to save us all from ourselves again.

through the medium of words. Her words.

 

[weepiper]

Laurie Penny's prose and Molly Crabapple's illustrations make me imagine a sort of contemporary Alice in Wonderland, told in a voice not unlike William Gibson, and drawn with an observational wit in the spirit of Tenniel.

If that doesn't make your trigger finger itchy there's something wrong with you.

 

[Riklet]

i properly cringed reading the blurb.

note how she's got her US mates reviewing it glowingly on amazon already. like fuck she's well known enough for people to be snapping it up/reviewing it yet, couple of shmoozing emails definitely sent...

 

[butchersapron]

Let's take all the decent posts off this thread and e-book it, and make it free.

 

[weepiper]

this could equally go on the 'guardian going down the pan' thread

http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/...cordia-molly-crabapple?cat=books&type=article