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• The Weenie Roast – Ingredients? Not How Long, But What’s in It…

  
  amy king's alias — Authority: 451
  Please don’t take another long drag on your ciggie and nonchalantly claim that the editors of Publisher’s Weekly didn’t know they were selecting books solely by men for their Top 10 Best Books of 2009 .  I will hurl dragon fire and burn your little house of cards down. One need only peruse the “brief ...
  19 hours ago

• Foucault and Lacan Walk Into A Bar…

  
  Perverse Egalitarianism — Authority: 470
  Here’s an interesting piece from Global-e: One day, way back in the 20 th century, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Roland Barthes sat under an equatorial tree, living in their own imagined primitive past, discussing Global Studies. “What,” asked Barthes, “might the four of us ...
  6 days ago

• Cold Souls

  
  Directors Notes — Authority: 131
  Having missed Cold Souls at this year’s London Film Festival due to the major inconvenience that is work and then missing it a couple of weeks later at Filmstock 11 due to a stinking cold I’d picked up at LFF, I was beginning to think that this was one of those films I was destine to never see on the big screen. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cold Souls – A Film Review

  
  No Ordinary Fool — Authority: 128
  The theatrical manner in which magicians perform their tricks has a twofold benefit. Firstly, it entertains the audience and entices them into a world where cynicism can be suspended for a time. Secondly, it keeps them distracted long enough for the magician to engage in the necessary sleight-of-hand for the trick to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Michael Wood on Roland Barthes

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 131
  The London Review of Books takes a look at two recently published works by the late cultural theorist Roland Barthes. Michael Wood discusses Carnets du voyage en Chine and Journal de deuil , and reflects on the French writers legacy: The persistence of Barthes’s reputation might seem surprising, since his ...
  2 weeks ago

• Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908-2009

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 131
  While I was away this week, I was surprised to hear the news that anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss has passed away. My own interests are anthropological only in the loosest sense, but the influence of Lévi-Strauss became massively influential across a broad range of cultural academic disciplines: The fame of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Return of the old-style cultural theory post!

  
  Cultural Snow — Authority: 416
  If I were to frame Larkin’s Law of Reissues, it would say that anything you haven’t got already probably isn’t worth bothering about. In other words, if someone tries to persuade you to buy a limited edition of the 1924-5 sessions by Paraffin Joe and his Nitelites, keep your pockets buttoned up; if they were any ...
  4 weeks ago

• Twitter & the Context of Race

  
  ThickCulture — Authority: 119
  I’m finally back in Toronto, but had an interesting sidetrip to Québec and will be blogging about separatism and Canadian identity in a future post.  I saw on Twitter that a trending topic was the hashtag , “#thingsdarkiessay.”  I knew it had to be some “inside joke” or meme I wasn’t aware of and the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) -...

  
  chacal does tumblng — Authority: 141
  Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com A powerful thinker, Mr. Lévi-Strauss was an avatar of “structuralism,” a school of thought in which universal “structures” were believed to underlie all human activity, giving shape to seemingly disparate cultures and creations. His work was a ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Existing Images Only Reinforce The Existing Lies

  
  boredom is always counter-revolutionary — Authority: 112
  Below: my paper from the fantastic ‘Rethinking Complicity and Resistance’ conference at Aberdeen last weekend ( abstract ). ‘The existing images only reinforce the existing lies’: The Situationist International in and against visuality. Still from ‘In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur ...
  5 weeks ago

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