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21/06/2009
Connecting to server…
Looking for someone you can chat with. Hang on.
You’re now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: hi asl
You: FREEDOM!
Stranger: asl
Stranger: FUCK THE POPE
You: Good one!
You: Who else?
Stranger: the IRA
You: How?
Stranger: where you from
You: Hell!
19/06/2009
PAGING DR. PARSANI
Robert Fisk: “If anyone needed proof of the government’s state of indecision, they had only to look at yesterday’s Tehran newspapers. Suddenly, the mass demonstrations were acknowledged in full. A whole front page of photographs showed Wednesday afternoon’s Mousavi rally. Ahmadinejad had said at the weekend that his opponents were mere “layers of [...]
19/06/2009
In every respect the new media has achieved an unprecedented hegemony over all aspects of social life. This hegemony has produced a more intimate visibility than ever before, while at the same time shattering universality, apparently irrevocably.
Citizens become users and take-on a threatening aspect. Neighbourhoods segregate, becoming predatory locales. Manners specify and the public [...]
18/06/2009
The dead of night,
Drunk with life,
From the air,
Like a fly,
Snatched in sleep,
By a fist.
18/06/2009
ON THE POST-CITY (CUTS/NOTES)
“As the Enlightenment and ‘modernity’ were increasingly called into question,” writes Peter Wollen, “a process accelerated by post-1968 disenchantment, French intellectuals turned away from ‘knowledge-based’ approaches to the humanities and towards the more speculative domains, urging a decentralized vision of ‘dissemination’, ‘rhizomes’ and ‘molecular’ microstructures. Godard also abandoned the centre, breaking his [...]
