16 April 2005
blogs trump academia as any fule kno
Firstly, a piece from the Village Voice whose first paragraph wonders what Adorno might have written on his blog: blog culture invades academia. Includes quotes from 'British cultural theorist Mark Fisher, author of the renegade cultural studies blog' k-punk!
Secondly, and really spookily, a week or so after my cloning philosophers from their book-hair post, the monkey came across this: 'From Alan Bennett's diary: "20 December 1983: I am reading a book on Kafka. It is a library book, and someone has marked a passage in the margin with a long, wavering line. I pay the passage particular attention without finding it particularly rewarding. As I turn the page the line moves. It is a long black hair."' (from Tom Lubbock's article on Patrick Caulfield, The Independent, 15th April).
Thirdly, from Tv Eye in Private Eye, whose writer (whoever it might be) is one of the most consistently amusing people in the world, a discussion of the media coverage of the Pope's funeral: 'At some point the BBC teams were obviously told to be careful not to speak about the Pope in the past tense, so that, bizarrely, a commentator on News 24, during a biographical package, declared "The Pope is born in Krakow in 1920", seeming to be announcing, 85 years too late, the opposite of the expected news.....a post-Paxo culture of television presentation in which hosts sneer and gurn knowingly when a politician gently suggests that his party might slightly have improved the NHS suddenly gave way to hours of programming in which astonishing supernatural claims were accepted with a sympathetic nodding.'
Cinestatic party tonight. Wonder if they'll let me play my Rammstein CD.
Secondly, and really spookily, a week or so after my cloning philosophers from their book-hair post, the monkey came across this: 'From Alan Bennett's diary: "20 December 1983: I am reading a book on Kafka. It is a library book, and someone has marked a passage in the margin with a long, wavering line. I pay the passage particular attention without finding it particularly rewarding. As I turn the page the line moves. It is a long black hair."' (from Tom Lubbock's article on Patrick Caulfield, The Independent, 15th April).
Thirdly, from Tv Eye in Private Eye, whose writer (whoever it might be) is one of the most consistently amusing people in the world, a discussion of the media coverage of the Pope's funeral: 'At some point the BBC teams were obviously told to be careful not to speak about the Pope in the past tense, so that, bizarrely, a commentator on News 24, during a biographical package, declared "The Pope is born in Krakow in 1920", seeming to be announcing, 85 years too late, the opposite of the expected news.....a post-Paxo culture of television presentation in which hosts sneer and gurn knowingly when a politician gently suggests that his party might slightly have improved the NHS suddenly gave way to hours of programming in which astonishing supernatural claims were accepted with a sympathetic nodding.'
Cinestatic party tonight. Wonder if they'll let me play my Rammstein CD.
