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First it was the 'flying pigs' poster (which was NOT as it first appeared to a naive audience, a reference to the 'pigs might fly' verbal commonplace but a subliminal attempt to induce anti-semitism). Then the Michael Howard hypnotist post, which was NOT a reference to Little Britain but an...

Been meaning to quote this for a while now. Simon Jenkins, two weeks ago, Sunday Times - purringly enjoyable blistering take-down of Gordon Brown, which accords very much with my own views of the power-crazed, psycho-sexually twisted calvinist: 'On any blink test, Brown's face, clothes, office...

The only case for a limitation on immigration into the UK is Amanda Platell. What skills has she got that indigenous Britons lack? Surely there are enough self-serving, self-promoting, stupid, PR industry failures in the UK so why the need to import them from Australia? Platell's column in the...

There are two hidden, superficially contradictory, premises in the arguments of those who defend democracy. The first is that democracy is the best that we can expect. This, in turn, depends on further unstated premises: that human beings are basically venal and self-centred, so that any...

Fabulous piece in the Standard on Tuesday which found that, to no surprise of those of us who do like to walk in the city, walking was actually quicker than the tube for seven common London routes. Unlike the forms of exercise favoured by Kapitalism (quick energy burns in the gym so that you...

I only have 'Lost Control'. Does anyone know anything else?

White Magic (http://critcrim.org/redfeather/journal-pomocrim/vol-6-virtual/whitemagic.htm)'"Here," said Sir Christopher Stephens, Esteemed AOE Puppet Master, and First Secretary of the AxSys Secret Police (the Fuzz), " we encourage self-expression, personal pride, and the politics of difference...

Pleased to see that the sacred cow Mike Leigh got a long overdue slaying in the Sunday Times yesterday. Minette Marrin dared to break ranks with the near unanimous consensus and proclaim the obvious: that Leigh's films are intellectually lazy, stereotype-ridden, patronizing and simplistic...

Choice, as everyone knows, is the endlessly bleated mantra amongst the political class now (despite most polls showing that the public have no interest whatsoever in having a 'choice' of hospitals, schools, etc). The emphasis on choice reveals the extent to which not so much a methodological...

Just preparing a post on 'Torque'... was wondering if anyone knows where the vocal samples from 'Damn Son' and 'Amtrak' come from?

... so Ccru wrote in its piece <a href=http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_swarm.htm> 'Swarmachines' </a>, as performed in the Hacienda at the Situationist Conference in 1995. It is a reasoned antipathy to debate that has led to my hesitation about posting here over the past few weeks. According to...

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." (Matthew 10:34) What can Christ mean when he demands that his followers hate their father and mother, even their own life? Well, simply that to escape you must disidentify with everything that you have...

The gnostics divide humanity in three groups: Hylics - carnal humans, slaved to the dense, dull heaviness of the body and its sensual pleasures. They like eating, sleeping and reproduction. Spirituals - those who have detached themselves from the carnal to some degree, but who have not yet...

(I thought politics MUST be worth a thread of its own.) The Economist last week carried a post-US election article which said that the reason that the Democrats lost was not fear, not the rise of bigotry, but in effect the 'vision thing'. They simply do not have one. While Bush and the...

A passage from Badiou's <i>Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism</i> HIGHLY relevant to a number of recent threads here: 'What is the real unifying factor behind [the] attempt to promote the cultural virtue of oppressed subsets, this invocation of language in order to extol communitarian...

The fruits of a brief but typically super-stimulating conversation with Infinite Thought and Alberto Toscano (a man badly in need of an alias). We all know that Blair is a liar, right? I'm not so sure. What is certain is that Bush is a <i>poor</i> liar. But I suspect that Bush's failure to be...

A number of times recently, both on the web and in meatworld, I have seen males - and it is always males - aver something to the effect that intellectual discussion or rationality are masculine. Rationality just means consistency: in the first instance, intellectual consistency, but more...

I'm doing something on Mark Stewart for the forthcoming Noise Theory Noise conference at Middlesex. I was just wondering if anyone out there has any interesting Stewart-related material they would be willing to share. I've obv been to the excellent Pop Group site, but any more unusual stuff...

Courtesy <a href=http://glueboot.blogspot.com>Glueboot</a>, this <a href=http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cath/congress/2005/call.html>conference on virtuality</a> looks potentially interesting. The abstract is typical academic rust blather, but DeLanda and Katherine Hayles are very good value as...

Following on from some remarks of Infinite Thought's on the Satanist sorry Catholic thread.... Few human beings have managed to be atheists. Nietzsche's parable of the 'Death of God', it should be remembered, was aimed not at the theists, but at 'those who did not believe in God.' It is they...