DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
He is forever in my head Captain Obvious
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Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Laurie Penny This tour has been a feminist boot camp - every day interviews and writing, every night speaking, defending my arguments. I need a montage!
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Laurie Penny I've been travelling too much. Arranged to spend some proper time back in London from Christmas onwards. Reconnect w/ people and politics.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Unfortunately she is stuck in Koln and cant get to New York cos of the hurricane
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
She's not in kansas anymore
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
She'll find the Kölnische as narking to her journo sensibilities as she found Berliners. They're pretty forthright about not suffering fools gladly.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
@PennyRed
This tour has been a feminist boot camp - every day interviews and writing, every night speaking, defending my arguments. I need a montage!
Its hell out there
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Yes. The hell called WORK.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Nice work if you can get it.
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
It's the struggle of mankind against power.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
'oh you hate your job? there's a support group, its called the bar and is attended by everyone'
-someone wittier than me
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
@PennyRed
This tour has been a feminist boot camp - every day interviews and writing, every night speaking, defending my arguments. I need a montage!
Penny Dreadful answering her critics, yesterday.
I'd pay money to see a TV series of Laurie Penny's Feminist Boot Camp. It'd be ace.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
'your days of pretending to check your privilege are OVER. You will give your privilege a name! You will give your privilege a twitter account. Because that is the only privilege you maggots will see untill you leave this autonomous convergence queer space!'
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
She is back in New York by the end of the week hosting a Q and A session with ("post-modernist") academic and author Kate Zambreno.
Here is Zambreno describing her major novel Green Girl: "A work that Green Girl is in dialog with is the Portuguese writer Clarice Lispector’s slim, devastating The Hour of the Star — about a girl living in the slums of Rio and working this blank yet somehow mystic experience as an unloved, orphaned typist enthralled to Coca-Cola and Marilyn Monroe — although the god-narrator in that book is male, and I had always wondered why. I think of Green Girl as a meditation on youth and beauty, but also an interrogation into the creative process, into writing, into being a woman writer, into the girl who lives her life as an object, a character, into the blank yet mysterious girl in literature and film by male auteurs. The Hour of the Star is about class, rigorously, as well as gender — about the invisibles of society — but in some way I feel Green Girl is too, Ruth is a nameless foreigner, a shopgirl. I think I used the narrator oftentimes to indicate my ambivalence towards Ruth, my cruelty towards this girl, who is in many ways self-consciously a character, a cipher, a grotesque. I often experienced horror at Ruth. I didn’t always like her. I wanted her and Agnes to be banal and boring sometimes. I love Ruth though. I love her, I loathe her. I think I am asking whether this loathing comes somewhat out of our culture. I was interested in the role of the blonde ingénue as a Hollywood construct (when writing the book I was really aware of all these Saw-like horror films, or like Catherine Deneuve in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion), the blonde as this victim character. I was also kind of obsessed with celebutantes like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, and their quite public unraveling and the way the media functioned as a cruel coliseum. So for me there was a whole other fascinating layer to the Tournament of Books spectacle — the passionate vitriol directed at Ruth — that is basically doubling what I was investigating and even echoing the book’s own narrator. Yet, I don’t think Ruth is entirely a wet-blanket — I see glimmers of possibility in Ruth, the sort of coming to consciousness. A watchfulness, an intensity."
The book Laurie will be discussing is a work of literary criticism
https://www.facebook.com/events/293809834065972/
Her blog is here http://francesfarmerismysister.blogspot.co.uk/ :
If I do say it's pretentious, is that 'diagnosing women for transgressing social bounds'?
Here is Zambreno describing her major novel Green Girl: "A work that Green Girl is in dialog with is the Portuguese writer Clarice Lispector’s slim, devastating The Hour of the Star — about a girl living in the slums of Rio and working this blank yet somehow mystic experience as an unloved, orphaned typist enthralled to Coca-Cola and Marilyn Monroe — although the god-narrator in that book is male, and I had always wondered why. I think of Green Girl as a meditation on youth and beauty, but also an interrogation into the creative process, into writing, into being a woman writer, into the girl who lives her life as an object, a character, into the blank yet mysterious girl in literature and film by male auteurs. The Hour of the Star is about class, rigorously, as well as gender — about the invisibles of society — but in some way I feel Green Girl is too, Ruth is a nameless foreigner, a shopgirl. I think I used the narrator oftentimes to indicate my ambivalence towards Ruth, my cruelty towards this girl, who is in many ways self-consciously a character, a cipher, a grotesque. I often experienced horror at Ruth. I didn’t always like her. I wanted her and Agnes to be banal and boring sometimes. I love Ruth though. I love her, I loathe her. I think I am asking whether this loathing comes somewhat out of our culture. I was interested in the role of the blonde ingénue as a Hollywood construct (when writing the book I was really aware of all these Saw-like horror films, or like Catherine Deneuve in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion), the blonde as this victim character. I was also kind of obsessed with celebutantes like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, and their quite public unraveling and the way the media functioned as a cruel coliseum. So for me there was a whole other fascinating layer to the Tournament of Books spectacle — the passionate vitriol directed at Ruth — that is basically doubling what I was investigating and even echoing the book’s own narrator. Yet, I don’t think Ruth is entirely a wet-blanket — I see glimmers of possibility in Ruth, the sort of coming to consciousness. A watchfulness, an intensity."
The book Laurie will be discussing is a work of literary criticism
https://www.facebook.com/events/293809834065972/
Her blog is here http://francesfarmerismysister.blogspot.co.uk/ :
Is it me or does it sound pretentious?
If I do say it's pretentious, is that 'diagnosing women for transgressing social bounds'?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
You're not suggesting that Laura is "doing a Hari", are you?
I hope not, because it's not her fault, it's the fault of her twitter sub-editor!
rekil
to menny cranks
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
'This is my ego. There are many others like it, but rarely this inflated. My narcissism is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my ego is useless. Without my relentless self-promotion, I am useless. I must ignore my critics, who are trying to criticise me. I must smear them before they make solid points against me. I will. Before God I swear this creed: my career and myself are defenders of my ego, we are the masters of our enemy, we are the saviors of my life. So be it, until there is no enemy, but peace. Amen.'
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
Eyes on the Marr Show, old big ears isn't immortal!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
on a scale of 'fuck me' wrt depictions of casual racism Full Metal Jacket is only about a 5.
Scum is far worse. Bonus points for when there is a basketball match and it turns into a total race brawl. I didn't even have to live in the 70s but thankfully people did films that illustrate how shit it was. Although if you were a cheeky yet charming window cleaner you were balls deep.
Scum is far worse. Bonus points for when there is a basketball match and it turns into a total race brawl. I didn't even have to live in the 70s but thankfully people did films that illustrate how shit it was. Although if you were a cheeky yet charming window cleaner you were balls deep.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
The39thStep
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Ole
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Slightly disappointed to learn that Laurie Penny's penned in to speak at the LSE in the Ralph Miliband programme next year on 'Women and Protest', considering that every other speaker is at least double her age, with surely at least 10 times more experience and substance to speak of on their chosen topics.
/age privilege /experience privilege
/age privilege /experience privilege
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Has she - a 26 year old private school educated, oxbridge graduate with the best of contacts, the easiest job available and so on - ever explained in any detail why:
I, for one, as a 40 year old unskilled manual worker of no fixed abode, no pension, no savings etc would be very interested to hear it.
penny said:
I, for one, as a 40 year old unskilled manual worker of no fixed abode, no pension, no savings etc would be very interested to hear it.
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
More text and words from Discordia.
Is there is a female couple kissing, with one of the women with her arm around a man (facial expression obscured by ink) who is holding her back-side.
The riot police have immense upper body muslce but are walking on a puny artificial limb system - suggesting they are general paper tigers or that people should strike at their legs or that they can't run as fast as protestors.
Anyway, here they are with the finished version on a portable device.
Is there is a female couple kissing, with one of the women with her arm around a man (facial expression obscured by ink) who is holding her back-side.
The riot police have immense upper body muslce but are walking on a puny artificial limb system - suggesting they are general paper tigers or that people should strike at their legs or that they can't run as fast as protestors.
Anyway, here they are with the finished version on a portable device.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
So are they an item?More text and words from Discordia.
Is there is a female couple kissing, with one of the women with her arm around a man (facial expression obscured by ink) who is holding her back-side.
The riot police have immense upper body muslce but are walking on a puny artificial limb system - suggesting they are general paper tigers or that people should strike at their legs or that they can't run as fast as protestors.
Anyway, here they are with the finished version on a portable device.
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Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
Laurie looks disgruntled there, rather than rebel cool.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Maybe she's a bit embarrassed about Molly doing her bit for feminism by sticking her tits out above the book?
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