Urban v's the Commentariat

[rekil]

Crabapple, Stoya, and last and least, conspiraloon Tim Pool team up for google glass marketing exercise.

The project, called "Glass Gaze: An online performance with hacked Glass and Stoya," is multifaceted. It looks at the relationship between the artist's eye and the model, and how what the artist sees is not necessarily what winds up on the page. And aside from test runs, this will be the first time that Crabapple will be using Google Glass.

Born Jennifer Caban, the New York native Crabapple has a long history documenting the political and social turmoil of the 21st century with breezy, Victorian-style linework.

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/artist-gazes-at-porn-performer-through-google-glass-q-a/

When these idiots say 'hacked' they really mean 'configured' don't they but hacking is way more mysterious and matrixy sounding.

 

[cesare]

Must. . . resist. . .urge to post. . . Irish ape cartoon. . .

That's the point, eh

 

[Theisticle]

Bullshit

 

[Favelado]

Bullshit

MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEME.

She's awful.

 

[J Ed]

 

[J Ed]

Bullshit

Well, she went to Brussels to learn about the 'rise of fascism in Europe'.

Maybe guessing Laurie's 'racial phenotypes' will make it into her article.. lol

 

[rekil]

Followed by pic of LP in a pub with a bloke in a cape and mask calling himself 'Captain Europe'. Top research. Top revolutionary socialism.

 

[weepiper]

Oh Jesus Christ just shut up Laurie

 

[butchersapron]

Think i'd rather got to the thing Rutita1 was promoting yesterday - that above looks like london lefty liberal luvvys living room. What does "comment from Owen Jones" mean - he'll be watching it and tweeting and they'll have a big screen of his timeline?

 

[J Ed]

Followed by pic of LP in a pub with a bloke in a cape and mask calling himself 'Captain Europe'. Top research. Top revolutionary socialism.

EU Federalist chauvinism is a little bit pro-forrin communism

My god though what a joke the EU is, an EU presidential debate? Does anyone actually know that it's happening? What's the point? Who voted in that ex-'Maoist'-veryquickly-turned-neoliberal Barroso?

Well they can have an EU Presidential debate and then people like Laurie Penny can report home on the fantastic state of EU democracy in Brussels and bemoan the fact that anyone doubting it is an ignorant racist.

 

[J Ed]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/financ...ttack-to-bring-rebellious-italy-to-its-knees/

The revelations about EMU skulduggery are coming thick and fast. Tim Geithner recounts in his book Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises just how far the EU elites are willing to go to save the euro, even if it means toppling elected leaders and eviscerating Europe’s sovereign parliaments.

The former US Treasury Secretary says that EU officials approached him in the white heat of the EMU crisis in November 2011 with a plan to overthrow Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s elected leader.

 

[butchersapron]

Yep. Or the arguments around sex work as a form of individual freedom / bodily autonomy. Yeah, don't do the radfem thing and hate on sex workers but it's easy enough to do that without bending the stick that far the other way.

On this, Nancy Fraser has a brillaint book on how 2nd wave feminism helped provide both ideological and structural support for the move from state-centred capitalism to neo-liberalism in the mid 70s:

Fortunes of Feminism: From Women's Liberation to Identity Politics to Anti-Capitalism

Chapter 9 is the key one.

There's an interesting interview with her on Against the Grain as well:

Feminism and Neoliberalism

 

[cesare]

On this, Nancy Fraser has a brillaint book on how 2nd wave feminism helped provide both ideological and structural support for the move from state-centred capitalism to neo-liberalism in the mid 70s:

Fortunes of Feminism: From Women's Liberation to Identity Politics to Anti-Capitalism

Chapter 9 is the key one.

There's an interesting interview with her on Against the Grain as well:

Feminism and Neoliberalism

I was reading a cif piece that she did last autumn, I'll see if I can find it ...

 

[cesare]

Ah, not cif, it's an actual article: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/14/feminism-capitalist-handmaiden-neoliberal

It's part of a theme she's developed in a longer article but it's behind an education or some other paywall so I can't access it. Interesting theme of commodified feminism ... I'll see if I can find the other articles around it by other authors ...

 

[butchersapron]

That looks pretty much like a summary of that chapter 9 from the book. All good stuff.

 

[Theisticle]

Fuck that. Will probably be another big 'vote Labour' event.

 

[cesare]

That looks pretty much like a summary of that chapter 9 from the book. All good stuff.

It looks as though it's also worth reading Kathi Weeks: The Problem With Work, published in 2011 I think

 

[rekil]

EU Federalist chauvinism is a little bit pro-forrin communism

While people were getting watercannoned and arrested for protesting, LP was on the piss with journos and this cunt.

 

[Pickman's model]

It looks as though it's also worth reading Kathi Weeks: The Problem With Work, published in 2011 I think

the problem with work IS work

http://deoxy.org/endwork.htm

 

[Pickman's model]

While people were getting watercannoned and arrested for protesting, LP was on the piss with journos and this cunt.

View attachment 53946

there is more than one cunt in that picture.

 

[ViolentPanda]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/financ...ttack-to-bring-rebellious-italy-to-its-knees/

So it was alright for the US to stand behind numerous destabilisation programmes that brought down Italian govts from post-WW2 right into (arguably) the '90s, but when the EU want to do it....

 

[treelover]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/financ...ttack-to-bring-rebellious-italy-to-its-knees/

Geithner told them this was unthinkable. The US could not misuse the machinery of the IMF to settle political disputes in this way. "We can't have his blood on our hands".

the ironing of that comment..

then again, the E.U's behaviour in Ukraine has been appalling and has seriously dented any positive notions I had towards it.

it all deserves its own thread

 

[DaveCinzano]

While people were getting watercannoned and arrested for protesting, LP was on the piss with journos and this cunt.

View attachment 53946

Sorry, guys, but I'm not going back out there today. Really don't want to be arrested and deported just for having a holiday on expenses.

 

[smokedout]

It's part of a theme she's developed in a longer article but it's behind an education or some other paywall so I can't access it. Interesting theme of commodified feminism ... I'll see if I can find the other articles around it by other authors ...

I can, think you just have to be logged in

 

[treelover]

While people were getting watercannoned and arrested for protesting, LP was on the piss with journos and this cunt.

View attachment 53946

Didn't see any of that on the BBC, etc, that's a lot of arrests

 

[Theisticle]

To be fair, she did eventually get round to tweeting about it (30 minutes ago)

 

[Bakunin]

So it was alright for the US to stand behind numerous destabilisation programmes that brought down Italian govts from post-WW2 right into (arguably) the '90s, but when the EU want to do it....

Does that mean the Phoenix Program was a work of genius as well?

 

[Theisticle]

Molly Crabapple

When you buy Google Glass, you are not a consumer. You are an Explorer.

Everything about Glass affirms your specialness. The Swedish modern showroom, where a hot guy tweaks Glass’s nose grips just for your face. The card that comes with Glass, calling you an "adventurer," a "founder." The fact that you must be invited to purchase your pair, since there are only 8,000 Google Glasses in the world.

When you wear Glass, you and Google are a team.

But explorers are not neutral. They are the shock troops of empire.

https://www.facebook.com/mollycrabappleart/posts/10153730051550691

 

[ViolentPanda]

Does that mean the Phoenix Program was a work of genius as well?

In terms of realpolitik, I suppose that could be said, if you were amoral.

 

[DotCommunist]

Molly Crabapple


https://www.facebook.com/mollycrabappleart/posts/10153730051550691

how are they managing to make what is a pretty fun looking sci fi toy into some wank like that? ^^^