I googled “adorno research arm of the culture industry,” hoping to find a reference to what was the Frankfurt School’s assertion that the avant-garde in the mid-20th century acts as a kind of research arm for culture industry. It’s sort of similar to what “cool hunters” do today, snooping out underdog trends, “ethnic” values, ghetto […]
[edited with a PPS below…] It’s clear that mentioning the p-word (porn, long & short form) will get you more google search hits than most any other thing. This creeps me out, especially given some of the mindboggling searchstrings that people are putting into google, which, weirdly, result in visits to my blog. How’s this, […]
I’ve been thinking about the blog as an existential problem, and can’t quite decide if I’m just in a really bad mood, or whether there is something more important happening here. Sartre said that we have the choice to stop existing: that’s what differentiates us from things, which do not have that existential freedom. The […]
There was a Tuesday evening library visit a few weeks ago that I didn’t write about. I found a slim volume, a collection of papers delivered at the ICA in London, Ideas from France; the Legacy of French Theory, edited by Lisa Appignanesi (1985). The book has four sections: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Theory; […]
There’s an entry I’ve been meaning to write. Somehow all these other things have been getting in the way, pushing me here and there, distracting me. Little things, big things; but if I start to list them, I still won’t be writing the entry, which is supposed to be about art. About expression. About honour. […]
Brian’s son Tobin is having some interesting school experiences, which Brian kindly blogged about. Few things get my attention as quickly as qvetches about schools, and I left a comment. Then it occured to me that it’s probably not the case that everybody has read John Taylor Gatto — I keep forgetting this! — and […]
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