February 2009
5 posts
Half asleep I have Bourdieu fever-dreams where I can see habitus-textures likes it’s the fucking matrix.
January 2009
8 posts
Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
in which Chef Gordon Ramsay travels the continent teaching the petty bourgeois to man-up and stop getting exploited by workers.
The practice of argument-by-tagging: the way you get to say “but this is a blah that is not blahblah” in philosophy and in manifestos and have it stick.
We need a better theory of rhetoric-by-mimesis [ideology-by-mimesis] that will allow to rigorously differentiate powerfully implicit premises from instrumental premises, at least as poles on a continuum. Take talking animals in Aesop’s fables to mark one pole and everything about Iron Man to mark the other pole, for that matter. There are reasons this is excruciatingly difficult though...
Here’s something: any account of the sociology of taste that doesn’t mention high-school’s quasi-autonomous dynamics is incomplete.
Note to me
As if you could just walk into somebody’s conversation and start with ‘you’re doing it wrong’
A theoretical one liner regarding early Barthes...
Mythology is fake emergence.
Today's pun
“Sickness unto deadline”