°Redface, blackface, whiteface …

October 8, 2009

‘All in good fun, no offense intended to Harry or Americans’ Or, ‘who cares what foreigners think’

Filed under: Biowar + Screen
:: trackback url | permanent link | comments (5)

Bookmark and Share

°Fangbangers, shifters and bacchanalia

September 12, 2009

True Blood is hilarious. Not always, but the second last episode of Season 2, most definitely.

Filed under: Screen + Necropolitics
:: trackback url | permanent link | comments (4)

Bookmark and Share

°Entrepreneurialism and experiment

September 5, 2009

Eric Beck, “Respecting the Middle: The Wire’s Omar Little as Neoliberal Subjectivity“:

What’s often elided in accounts of neoliberalism is the way that its axiomatic and stratic transformations are responses to, even accommodations of, workers’ and dissidents’ demands. There’s no need to be sad that capital has been able to incorporate and profit from them, just as there’s no need to despair when protest is met with silence or disregard. That’s what capitalism always does, and using its response as a measure not only ensures defeat from the outset but has nothing to do with political desire. None of this is to deny that neoliberalism presents new challenges. As this essay has tried to show, the colonization of nonwork life by the axioms of labor has had a suffocating effect, and neoliberalism’s axioms regarding freedom have made organizing a more delicate and dangerous proposition. Despite this, neoliberalism still has not solved capitalism’s fundamental problem: It requires for its substratum a subjectivity that is independent of it.

Political movements that take comfort in this brute fact, however, are not worthy of the name. Omar Little prefers his space in the middle, but not because it allows him a respite from the dangers of life. Guarantees in The Wire exist only for the molar strata. Instead, the middle permits the most room to create and experiment. And that, in the contemporary conjecture, is a good start.

Filed under: Precarious precarity + Laboratories + Screen
:: trackback url | permanent link | comments (1)

Bookmark and Share

°District 9

August 25, 2009


The alert | and Alive in Joberg, the short film it was based on:

Filed under: Biowar + Internment Camps + Screen
:: trackback url | permanent link | comments (1)

Bookmark and Share

°Contract’s end

June 27, 2009

In Wake in Fright, a man in very white suit tries to get out of town, end of contract time. Whiter than white, thinks he has shaken off that hint of indentured labour.

Filed under: Nationalism + Precarious precarity + Screen + Universities
:: trackback url | permanent link | comments (3)

Bookmark and Share

°It’s all remix

June 26, 2009


Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop (T&T Version)
Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin’ Something
Rihanna - Don’t Stop the Music
Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa
Rihanna vs Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop Billy Jean [vid]
Rihanna vs Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop the Music [vid]
Moymoy Palaboy lipsynch it … and more.

Filed under: mixtapes
:: trackback url | permanent link | comments (0)

Bookmark and Share

°Without the crossing there is no border

June 18, 2009


Opening scenes from a film by Ursula Biemann, set in the Mexican-US (maquiladora) border town of Ciudad Juarez - on the feminisation of the border region through a reading of the gendered labor division, prostitution, the entertainment industry, and sexual violence.

See also, elsewhere: SOAS cleaners - deportations, occupations, some success | Calais NoBorder Camp | “Academics plan to boycott new [UK] student immigration rules” | “Australian bosses are racist when it’s time to hire” | Video of deportation from Madrid (awful)

Filed under: Biowar + Precarious precarity + Borders + Movement + Screen + Universities
:: trackback url | permanent link | comments (4)

Bookmark and Share


''



Get free blog up and running in minutes with Blogsome | Theme designs available here