The Chaser's War On Everything.

You should be watching it. Go HERE and continue... (Plus Brooker's new show next week of course. Spoilt you are. Spoilt).

p.s. who is Virgilio Anderson?

Just stealing other people's links now

Sorry yourself (it's just getting silly now but I'm a lazy, lazy man right now)

Cribbed Quotage

"Whatever the outcome, it is vitally important to keep in mind that we are witnessing a great emancipatory event which doesn’t fit the frame of the struggle between pro-Western liberals and anti-Western fundamentalists. If our cynical pragmatism will make us lose the capacity to recognize this emancipatory dimension, then we in the West are effectively entering a post-democratic era, getting ready for our own Ahmadinejads. Italians already know his name: Berlusconi. Others are waiting in line."

- Slavoj Žižek

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Talking of the post-democratic (heteronomous) era, see this piece from that bastion of the worst of American Liberal dross, The New Republic - 'What Makes David Cameron So Damn Likeable?' (as the headline on the front page has it):

"While the days when the upper class called the shots are gone, those at the top can still elicit begrudging respect from the public. "I don't know if people even admit it to themselves," says the pollster Kellner. "But hidden in the British psyche is this sense that we want our rulers to be more highly educated, and perhaps more competent, than ourselves." One of Cameron's most valuable calling cards may turn out to be his palpable self-assurance. After watching Cameron give his Lorax speech, Marcia Titcombe, a homemaker in Oxfordshire, said she wished "he would hurry up and get into" the prime ministership. Reflecting on his appeal, she gave this explanation: "There is something self-confident about him, don't you think?""

How Journalism Works

Press Release (A): 'Promiscuous men more likely to rape'

... becomes ...

Story as Printed (B): 'Women who dress provocatively more likely to be raped, claim scientists'

*edit* for illustration (click for viewing):

Still. Great stuff all round.

I thank you and goodnight.

(hat tip to himself for pointing it out elsewhere)

Pens down workers.

Zizek loves trumpets.


Five day masterclass by Slavoj Zizek on 'Notes Towards a Definition of Communist Culture' - go HERE. Listen.

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(*edit* THIS is also very worthy of reading, hat tip to Will)

Gone Fussing (Filler)

Links

God blogging is shite. And bloggers. And this blog especially.

But as I slowly grind down, turn this back into a links dump (rather than a talk shit hole), some things with a science theme:

Chiropractors in Mass Website Withdrawal

Is the Green Party anti-science?

And other stuff:

Another bashed off Hitchens Slate piece

Review of book on SDS and Weathermen

Feel free to open the abovelink, skim first few lines and close having got the gist.

Then contemplate the 'ego ideal' and all this blogging crap...