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

[sihhi]

Nick Lezard borrowing money off his brother:

That this magazine seems to have paid me twice in the same month – although I may have got this wrong – added to this sense and so I spent a large part of the past month thinking I was far wealthier than I was and splurging like someone demob happy. (I have not invoiced this magazine for last month because I think that will make things OK again but I am now utterly confused and if someone from the NS accounts department can clear up what’s going on, I would be most grateful.)

So, to cut a long story short, I was saved by a parental birthday cheque and a fraternal last-minute loan. (“Am I going to get this back?” he asked with pardonable suspicion as I snatched the cash from him at the Marylebone Station cashpoint and made to sprint away. Of course you’ll get it back, Tony.) That, and the great generosity of my friends, who, having worked out that if there’s one thing I like, it’s wine, brought me so much wine that I think I may even be ahead on the deal. (It would appear that Majestic accepts returns, of full bottles at least, and all it asks of you when you rent its wine glasses is a £1 deposit each, so, if broken, it’s 1/180th of the price of a glass from which even Liberace in his pomp would have thought twice about sipping.)

I like how their family members always step in but this means they haze zero access to financial resources ie they are 'Down and Out'.

Good tips for anyone on a minimal income:

I have discovered that you can make quite a lot of rillettes from a leftover fowl. This helps.

 

[phildwyer]

Sorry but that shit from Molly is crap.

I've done plenty of big paintings with no sponsorship or money.

I've never met an artıst who thought about money enough to wrıte an artıcle about ıt, let alone actually acquıre any of the stuff.

Really, who cares?

 

[sihhi]

Class is no longer the political signifier it was in the 20th, if you haven't noticed.

It was all good to go in 1991 eg "I've made passes / At women of all classes"



But no more - something happened - the Millennium Bug it didn't down any planes but stopped class signifying anything.

 

[seventh bullet]

eg "I've made passes / At women of all classes"

 

[YouSir]

Nick Lezard borrowing money off his brother:




I like how their family members always step in but this means they haze zero access to financial resources ie they are 'Down and Out'.

Good tips for anyone on a minimal income:

I... don't understand that article at all. Anyone know what the point of it was?

 

[YouSir]

I've never met an artıst who thought about money enough to wrıte an artıcle about ıt, let alone actually acquıre any of the stuff.

Really, who cares?

As a struggling artist I'm obliged to think about money quite a lot, turns out my landlord, phone company and various others really do care. Keep lighting cigarettes and trying to stare profoundly into the distance when the topic comes up but they never seem to respect the genius.

 

[sihhi]

I... don't understand that article at all. Anyone know what the point of it was?

Start of the fourth para:

this magazine seems to have paid me twice in the same month

 

[YouSir]

Start of the fourth para:

So it's a letter to the personnel department that's accidentally made it on to the website? Fair enough.

 

[phildwyer]

As a struggling artist I'm obliged to think about money quite a lot, turns out my landlord, phone company and various others really do care. Keep lighting cigarettes and trying to stare profoundly into the distance when the topic comes up but they never seem to respect the genius.

Gıve up smokıng. You'll save a fortune.

 

[sihhi]

Interview report for a German weekly about online sexist/abusive comments has popped up:

Ich habe in meiner Schulzeit viel Literatur der zweiten und dritten Welle des Feminismus gelesen. Und ich habe mich umgeschaut und gefragt: Wo ist das alles? Was ist unser Feminismus? Alles, was ich damals in den Zeitungen sah, suggerierte: Dieser Kampf ist vorbei. Es gibt nichts mehr zu sagen. Erst als ich online aktiv geworden bin und 2005 angefangen habe, feministische Blogs zu lesen, habe ich in diesen Communitys etwas komplett Neues entdeckt.

"I read in my schooldays a lot of literature of second and third wave feminism. And I looked around and asked myself: Where is all this stuff? What is our feminism? Everything I saw in the newspapers at the time, suggested: this struggle is complete. There is nothing more to say. It was only when I became active online and in 2005 started to read feminist blogs, I discovered something completely new in these communities."

Wann wurden die Angriffe so richtig heftig?
Es fing an, als ich regelmäßig für die Website des New Statesman zu schreiben begann. Es hat mich völlig überrascht. Ich dachte zunächst, all diese fiesen Kommentare und Blogbeiträge wären Reaktionen darauf, dass ich eine schlechte Autorin oder ein schlechter Mensch sei.

"When were the [online] attacks really heavy?


It started when I began to write regularly for the website of the New Statesman.
It took me completely by surprise. I initially thought all these nasty comments and blogposts were responses to the fact that I was bad writer or a bad person."

Ich war 18 und in einer sehr weißen Gegend aufgewachsen.

"I was eighteen and I grew up in a very white area."

 

[DotCommunist]

he's even bowing!

 

[sihhi]

Class is no longer the political signifier it was in the 20th, if you haven't noticed.

Forgot to add 'I bought this mansion at the end of the 20th century'

 

[DotCommunist]

'I raised a family, in time of austerity, check out my mansion lads, we are between the wars;

 

[weepiper]

Nick Lezard borrowing money off his brother:




I like how their family members always step in but this means they haze zero access to financial resources ie they are 'Down and Out'.

So broke he buys his wine from Majestic Wine Warehouse, a company that will only sell you a minimum of six bottles per purchase.

 

[rekil]

More billy lyrics.

Never said that we live in a classless society, merely that class is no longer a viable basis for mass political organisation

 

[sihhi]

Crowdfunding article in New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/arts/crowdfunding-finds-a-creative-outlet.html

features Molly Crabapple:

When the American artist Molly Crabapple sought financing on Kickstarter for a live art installation, she eventually raised $25,805 from 745 backers. For her piece, titled “Molly Crabapple’s Week In Hell,” the artist locked herself in a room for five days, covered the walls with paper and covered them in drawings, which she offered to those who had given her financial support.
...

The rapidly increasing use of new media by installation artists opens up possibilities for even more participatory rewards. As part of “Molly Crabapple’s Week In Hell,” the artist created a live stream of her installation, which she made available to those who gave money to her project. She also let her backers send in e-mails with suggestions for her drawings.

“It was definitely an interactive process,” Ms. Crabapple said. “By the last day of the installation I was so exhausted but I knew they were watching, and that was really encouraging.”

Of the 745 funders most are like around $5, which simply receive a live stream to a camera of MC sketching, occasionally the sketching is obscured by the position of the back of the artist. Only a minority are the heavy lifters of the $25K , they get more goodies and actual product. This is all the future of anti-capitalism in art, apparently.

A point against from Ann Messner the sculptor installationist:

Others worry that crowdfunding relies too much on the ability to quickly attract public attention. “I would consider the way crowdfunding depends on some form of notoriety or spectacle to be a disadvantage,”

Messner did an exhibition of anti-war material which featured boxes of her pamphlet-tabloid

free for people to take one each:

(gallery showing)

I like the correction at the bottom of the article!

Correction: June 11, 2013

A photo caption with an earlier version of this article misstated the amount of money donors were required to give in order to receive a Spencer Tunick print. The minimum donation was $5,000, not $500.

 

[frogwoman]

 

[treelover]

Forgot to add 'I bought this mansion at the end of the 20th century'

that's paid for by the sales of Mermaid Avenue in the U.S

having said that, can't think of anyone who has done more benefit gigs than BB

 

[redsquirrel]

I see that John Pilger has managed to annoy both intersectionalists and some of the remaining radical feminists.

How?

Shit musician too

He's been shit for some time now but early work is fantastic as is the first Mermaid Avenue album. Just makes it all the more of a shame that he's lost it.

 

[agricola]

How?

Isnt "being a man" enough?

 

[grit]

So broke he buys his wine from Majestic Wine Warehouse, a company that will only sell you a minimum of six bottles per purchase.

the six bottles limit,is a licensing issue. many wine companies do it so they only need a wholesale licence. that in itself does not mean the wineisexpensive.

 

[cesare]

the six bottles limit,is a licensing issue. many wine companies do it so they only need a wholesale licence. that in itself does not mean the wineisexpensive.

It's not so much the unit price, as needing to have the amount of disposable cash available to buy the minimum order.

 

[ViolentPanda]

It's not so much the unit price, as needing to have the amount of disposable cash available to buy the minimum order.

Plus it's not as if The Lez lowers himself to drinking the cheaper wines. He wrote something a while back about spending about a minimum of £12 a bottle on "plonk", doubtless because his sophisticated palate can't bear the sheer coarseness of the lower end of vintnery.

 

[DotCommunist]

'Vin de Table? fuck off'

 

[sihhi]

did anyone that "chime for change" thing about women's rights which had beyonce on the bill and lots of lyrics telling women they should look sexy and please men etc?

I didn't but hopefully you'll be able to better explain exactly what leftist South Asian Torontan Denise Balkissoon is saying when wishing why Beyonce should sort of be in the feminist club or something, on intersectional grounds:

In theory, feminism is supposed to work for the liberation, freedom and choice of all women. In practice, it too often stays focused on those whose path to fulfillment is the least thorny. While Ms. is busy finding reasons to kick Beyoncé out of the club

When feminism’s most prominent personalities refuse to reach for those ideals, I do wonder if I can call myself a feminist. It’s a label I would feel sad about shedding, but not as sad as I do about the 150 years that womanhood’s luckiest members have been kicking me, Beyoncé and most of the world’s women off of the membership roster.

 

[frogwoman]

"Beyonce and most of the world's women"

 

[sihhi]

"Beyonce and most of the world's women"

That doesn't explain it.

I don't know what to do about this. How can I or someone normal respond without helping right-wing forces like Mensch, is it bad because I don't have "intersectional-loving heart"? I don't know what to think anymore.

Why Do Feminists Hate Beyoncé?
YES. A whole lot of win here. My intersectional-loving heart loves this article.

No, really. To whoever started Beyonceisnotafeminist, and all the other feminists out there who take a shot whenever Beyoncé makes a decision in her career or personal life, I genuinely want to know:
What would she have to do to get you to stop hating on her every decision?
She is a successful, independent, confident black woman who has an all-women band, a family, and a solid sense of who she is. That sounds like a role model I’d like my daughter to look up to. I would want my daughter to grow up seeing a black woman who dominates the industry on her terms.

 

[frogwoman]

is it bad because I don't have "intersectional-loving heart"?

Sorry, but

 

[sihhi]

Sorry, but

For some context Beyonce is auctioning - for charity - a day's worth of internship for her, aimed at $25,000.

The only downside is the current bid is $13,500, so you’ll have to do a whole lot of saving (and chatting-up the relatives) to get your hands on this prize.
The charity auction, set up through website Charity Buzz, is set to raise at least $25,000 for the Miss A Meal Foundation, a cause very close to Beyonce and her sister Solange’s heart.

If a non-white working-class woman or man says 'the nerve' and badmouths her - that's OK.
If a white working-class woman or man says 'the nerve' and badmouths her - that's unacceptable.
It's like these middle-class people are on a mission to create reverse racism.

 

[frogwoman]

((((inter-sectional loving hearts)))))