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

[sihhi]

Note her not asking the same question of her panel here or of many other that she participated in.

What got me there was 'old white male' versus 'young people'
You could almost say of that episode: 'In a climate like this, no older person woman writer can tell his her own story without immediately being expected also to tell everyone else’s - and that’s part of the way older leftists who lived through real struggle women writers are dismissed today, by the publishing industry, by the television industry, by everyone with a stake in packaging the truth'

Has that same question been asked of her own friends? Or only of left-wing fellow comrades competitors in the brain-worker sphere?

http://instagram.com/lauriepenny (Not stalking, she tweeted it to public. Obvious truth for someone of the internet era: if you make it public on the internet and stick your name next to it, people will discuss it)

Anyway, your dismissal of 'identity' politics is getting desperate. You seem really, really anxious to convince yourselves that only the politics of white working class men is actually relevant to economic and social struggle. Those of us who are and who fight for women, people of colour and minorities don't call it 'identity politics', by the way. We just call it 'politics.'

Do working-class women or working-class immigrants (avoiding 'minorities', double avoiding 'people of colour')
believe that Laurie Penny is fighting for them?
No. of Laurie Penny analyses of first and second generation immigration in Britain and its relation to class politics - 0
Interviews 'anti-Muslim immigrant far-right truth-speaker socks it to London journo' format in neo-quasi-ironic magazine - 1.
If you look at the instagram it gives you Laurie Penny's several photos of the guy whose friend was charging $5,000 for a lecture of his - Malcolm Tucker of the New Inquiry.

 

[equationgirl]

Hmmm. I was reading one of her PennyRed blog posts from 4th , and something struck me as a little odd:

I’ve just come back from volunteering down the street at the Williamsburg Church emergency blood drive. Right now New York is in a blood crisis. When the hospitals were evacuated during the storm, there was no time to collect the blood left in storage banks when the power went out, and by the time they got everyone to safety, that blood had rotted. Now they need new blood desperately.

The Red Cross issued a press statement at that time:
http://www.redcross.org/news/article/Sandy-Forces-Cancellation-of-About-300-Blood-Drives

So far, the cancellations have resulted in a shortfall of more than 9,000 blood and platelet donations across 14 states that would otherwise be available for those needing transfusions. The situation may worsen as the storm continues to move and in its aftermath.

The Red Cross did move blood and blood products to those areas most likely to be affected by Sandy so that the blood needs of people in those communities could be met. However, the long- term impact of power outages and blood drive cancellations is expected to be significant.

I don't think it's quite the situation as painted. The cancellation of blood stock replenishment drives would have had more of an impact than the power going out, to my mind.

 

[love detective]

If you look at the instagram it gives you Laurie Penny's several photos of the guy whose friend was charging $5,000 for a lecture of his - Malcolm Tucker of the New Inquiry.

I bet the four panel members of that 'radical interpretations of the crisis' session that she lambasted for their privilege and critcised them for being white and male didn't charge a penny for doing it

yet here she is fawning over a white male (and let's face it a massive fucking bellend cunt) who has the arrogance to charge five grand a pop just to hear him speak

 

[sihhi]

I meant that if the library is supposed to "develop reading and research skills to access information efficiently, to evaluate information critically and competently, and use it accurately and creatively", then it has failed because evidently, Laura here cannot do any of those things.

It is accurate and creative on ruling-class class terms: hand-plucking appropriate writers from the blogsphere to become the New Statesman, making the NATO bombing of Libya an act of solidarity, promoting electronic-based gonzo journalism publishing via Discordia (cutting out the labour costs of actually printing anything - victory to the brain-worker!), encouraging people to attend university in spite of higher fees: 'To hell with the Gradgrinds – go to university', considering sex work purely as 'work like any other' but with bad things that will magically disappear with new legalised brothels and adverts, discussing cultural products like Game of Thrones only in terms of surface content not conditions of production - all fresh and exciting ruling class ideas, particularly potent when dressed up as criticism and analysis from a superior Marxist perspective that considers privilege.

All the posters on this thread are actually educating her, not Brighton College. She keeps reading this because she knows there's good stuff here and she hives it off as her own work and the cycle just goes on.

 

[DaveCinzano]

here she is fawning over a white male (and let's face it a massive fucking bellend cunt) who has the arrogance to charge five grand a pop just to hear him speak

Hey, those who control their own means of production have to stick together.

 

[bluestreak]

"most of it fictionalised by white middle class men who hadn't lived it!"

...and a fitting reminder of the progress we've made...now women get a go.

it's true, i have books by white middle class women too these days.

 

[sihhi]

I bet the four panel members of that 'radical interpretations of the crisis' session that she lambasted for their privilege and critcised them for being white and male didn't charge a penny for doing it

yet here she is fawning over a white male (and let's face it a massive fucking bellend cunt) who has the arrogance to charge five grand a pop just to hear him speak

If you look at
http://instagram.com/lauriepenny

You see a fair amount about the post-Oxford lifestyle (ignoring the none of my fellow graduates had work lies of earlier):

Greenall's Gin £20 a bottle normally. It's not cheap stuff.
Real cricket bat. Trinket art on the bookshelves. Penguin Modern Classics Bag. Is it wrong to attack Nick Lezard's waistcoat.

 

[love detective]

If you look at
http://instagram.com/lauriepenny

You see a fair amount about the post-Oxford lifestyle (ignoring the none of my fellow graduates had work lies of earlier):

Greenall's Gin £20 a bottle normally. It's not cheap stuff.
Real cricket bat. Trinket art on the bookshelves. Penguin Modern Classics Bag. Is it wrong to attack Nick Lezard's waistcoat.

every single one of the photos on there is 'hideously white'

 

[Ronnie Rubashov]

it's true, i have books by white middle class women too these days.

Well I hope for the sake of your privilege index they were'n't white and privately educated.

 

[Ronnie Rubashov]

Don't shoot till you see the white of their eyes

 

[Balbi]

Is this thread really going to examine all of her social media leavings?

 

[SpineyNorman]

not related, but a guy called tommy gray who i went to school with could blow smoke out his ears

(he also once wore a tank top underneath his shirt)

There was a kid at my school who could put a 5p up his nose and then cough it up out of his mouth. At the time it was the most impressive thing I had ever seen and I wanted to grow up to be like him. I've never quite got over the disappointment of not doing.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Is this thread really going to examine all of her social media leavings?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

There was a kid at my school who could put a 5p up his nose and then cough it up out of his mouth. At the time it was the most impressive thing I had ever seen and I wanted to grow up to be like him. I've never quite got over the disappointment of not doing.

to be honest the sense of that underpins your every post on here.

 

[love detective]

5p's were pretty big back in the day remember

 

[JimW]

You're nobody in the nose-coin game til you've done a thrupenny bit, mind.

 

[SpineyNorman]

I wanted to go to that meeting but couldn't get a babysitter at such short notice. Has the organisers of the meeting, the Platypus Society, turned up in the UK yet? Maybe it's just me but they come across as the smuggest gits since the RCP in its clipboard-on-the-high-street heyday.

It was the arrogant smugness (if that's the right term) of the moderator that got me - gave himself longer to introduce the speakers than they, all of them together, had to respond. That's student wadicals for you - there's similar know all, done nothing twats at Sheffield right now.

 

[Ronnie Rubashov]

Is this thread really going to examine all of her social media leavings?

Leavings...

 

[sihhi]

So the instagram - 'I see only ..... people here, where are the ...... people?'

What about this birthday party Laurie Penny attended with:

elite pornographic performer Stoya (woman of the 'industry' 2009 friends with James Deen) ardent defenders of the sex industry:

With porn DVD sales down due to free streaming websites, e.g. YouPorn, is the industry in trouble? Is the internet more attractive as a result to get the word out?
Parts of the industry are definitely changing. However, adult novelty sales are reportedly up, and Digital Playground is hiring new staff and expanding.

Jen Dziura

tour of the Middle East in which she entertained the troops at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait; Camp Buehring, Kuwait; Camp L.S.A., Kuwait; Camp Virginia, Kuwait; Camp Patriot, Kuwait Naval Base; Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar; As Sayliyah, Qatar; Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, Africa; the U.S.S. Enterprise and the U.S.S. Gettysburg, 200 miles off the coast in the Persian Gulf; and Naval Support Activity, Bahrain.

Artist Nicole Apteker, neo-Russian Constructivist artist big enough to get solo shows on both Coasts of the US:

Solo Exhibitions
Expanded Taxonomy New York City, NY 2012 Devotion Gallery
Accelerated Uproot & From A Great Height San Francisco, CA 2011 Urban Solutions
New Exploration Paper San Francisco, CA 2011 Satellite 66
Group Exhibitions
Wishes and Dreams New York City, NY 2012 inFUSION Gallery
ZERO1 Biennial San Jose, CA 2012 Liquid Agency & ArtHERE
Physio/Logical San Francisco, CA 2012 Million Fishes
Room 50 - Satellite 66 San Francisco, CA 2012 ArtPadSF
Galvanize Gala San Francisco, CA 2011 Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
Art for Avalos San Francisco, CA 2011 Incline Gallery
Alchemy San Francisco, CA 2010 Gray Area Foundation for the Arts

Shariar Shadab "filmmaker, illustrator, animator, experimental film, underground cinema, political upheaval, demegration of social constructs, and change NYC/SYD"
Art curator Samantha Levin

Burlesque school organiser and burlesque performer Veronica Varlow $69 for 3 hours (US min wage $7.25/hr)

Degrading and misogynistic 'pin-up' photogrpaher Burke Heffner - (Warning NSFW)

Illustrators Zelda Devon and Kurt Higgins

Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon live in a pocket-sized apartment in Brooklyn, where they collect neat, weird things. Their home is abundant with books, old furniture, mismatched teacups, and a cat named Cipher. They illustrate stuff for money so they can continue to invent stories, buy shoelaces, watch puppet shows, and eat sandwiches.

Teetering Bulb (1/2 Kurt Huggins, 1/2 Zelda Devon) is a super powered illustration team decamped in a tiny Brooklyn apartment. With an razor-disciplined yet lushly evocative style and a client list from Vertigo to Random House, they’re poised for Art Stardom. I got to chat with them on design. teamwork, and the mechanics of drawing a boob.

Larisa Fuchs, owner of a business, Gemini & Scorpio, that does singles parties in New York

$30 entry to a former warehouse in Brooklyn

Dress code and inspiration [you MUST dress to the theme/no street attire]: black and white formal or cocktail wear of any era (gray/silver ok); elaborate hats, masks, fans and parasols; horse race scene in My Fair Lady (Capote's inspiration); original B+W Ball guests; pop-art/constructivism/De Stijl; circus/cabaret/freakshow. If you must have another color accent, make it minimal and red. Masks preferred but not required. Dress code more relaxed after 2am.

http://www.katelanfoisy.com/blog/2012/5/15/dreams-are-real-041-happy-birthday-to-me.html

This is where Molly Crabbapple and Laurie Penny go to in New York, when not attending David Harvey and Crisis of Capitalism forums, the world they charm and promote.

Laurie Penny choosing to attack the David Harvey panel (said nothing about race) and all of urban75 p&p (unexamined lefty flavoured white privilege).

Yet she keeps winning.

 

[frogwoman]

outside the shed, pissing in

 

[love detective]

Laurie Penny, 23, never imagined she would find herself enmeshed in a world of poverty

unbearable smug cunts the lot of them

 

[frogwoman]

to be honest the sense of that underpins your every post on here.

5p nose privilege

 

[weepiper]

Amazing. If you listen really hard you can actually hear the braying coming from that photo.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I wanted to go to that meeting but couldn't get a babysitter at such short notice. Has the organisers of the meeting, the Platypus Society, turned up in the UK yet? Maybe it's just me but they come across as the smuggest gits since the RCP in its clipboard-on-the-high-street heyday.

Platypus people have been over here but they mostly seem to be making firm friends with the CPGB crowd so are unlikely to have much impact, I might be imagining it but I think this board's own the black hand may also be in touch with them...

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Amazing. If you listen really hard you can actually hear the braying coming from that photo.

 

[sihhi]

Lewes eh? Explains a lot.

'Born and bred' Lewes talking about how they made £100,000 last year.

http://www.lewesbonfire.co.uk/forum/Post/Re: price of houses/114124

 

[love detective]

Platypus people have been over here but they mostly seem to be making firm friends with the CPGB crowd so are unlikely to have much impact, I might be imagining it but I think this board's own the black hand may also be in touch with them...

they did a thing at the spectacularly misnamed 'up the anti' conference thing with such lumanaries as the weekly worker's hillilililil tintin and the lawyer from breaking bad

 

[SpineyNorman]

If you look at
http://instagram.com/lauriepenny

You see a fair amount about the post-Oxford lifestyle (ignoring the none of my fellow graduates had work lies of earlier):

Greenall's Gin £20 a bottle normally. It's not cheap stuff.
Real cricket bat. Trinket art on the bookshelves. Penguin Modern Classics Bag. Is it wrong to attack Nick Lezard's waistcoat.

The bloke in the twatty wastcoat looks like a smack dealer who lived down the street from me in Chesterfield. The kid the the foreground looks like he's been sampling his wares.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

The bloke in the twatty wastcoat looks like a smack dealer who lived down the street from me in Chesterfield. The kid the the foreground looks like he's been sampling his wares.

Nick Lizard the crack dealer

 

[equationgirl]

Nick Lizard the crack dealer

I wouldn't say that unless he has been convicted - you know how libel-lawsuit happy these people are.