'you benefit more from words thought over, than words fought over.'
February 2008
Monthly Archive
Tue 26 Feb 2008
200ml TEA
'you benefit more from words thought over, than words fought over.'
'you benefit more from words thought over, than words fought over.'
Tue 26 Feb 2008
500 ml of white coffee
0 hrs of sleep
the question knows the question
and the answer knows the answer
without the question there can be no answer
but with the answer there is no need of the question.
think of it as a really good hollywood movie when the movie finishes everything is resolved, though the middle didn't make sense in the middle, when you saw the end, the film made sense. though you wanted the middle explained at the time, you no longer need to see it again to understand it, though, and this is the crux of the point, nobody explained the middle they just explained the end.
so don't worry about the middle just watch it cause I'm telling you from experience, you're gonna love the ending.
0 hrs of sleep
the question knows the question
and the answer knows the answer
without the question there can be no answer
but with the answer there is no need of the question.
think of it as a really good hollywood movie when the movie finishes everything is resolved, though the middle didn't make sense in the middle, when you saw the end, the film made sense. though you wanted the middle explained at the time, you no longer need to see it again to understand it, though, and this is the crux of the point, nobody explained the middle they just explained the end.
so don't worry about the middle just watch it cause I'm telling you from experience, you're gonna love the ending.
Mon 25 Feb 2008
200ml coffee
'let he without prejudice cast the first race card'
'let he without prejudice cast the first race card'
Sun 17 Feb 2008
Mon 11 Feb 2008
Sun 3 Feb 2008
7 mg nicotine
The usage and extent of the concept of ‘postmodernism’
Whether ‘postmodernism’ is seen as a critical concept or merely a buzzword, one cannot deny its range. Dick Hebdige, in his ‘Hiding in the Light’ illustrates this:
When it becomes possible for people to describe as ‘postmodern’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘scratch’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘intertextual’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘metaphysics of presence’ a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘predicament of reflexitivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and/or crisis, the ‘de-centring’ of the subject, an ‘incredulity towards metanarratives’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power/discourse formations, the ‘implosion of meaning’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘media’, ‘consumer’ or ‘multinational’ phase, a sense (depending on who you read) of ‘placelessness’ or the abandonment of ‘placelessness’ (critical regionalism) or (even) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates: when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘postmodern’ (or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘post’ or ‘very post’) then it’s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.
The usage and extent of the concept of ‘postmodernism’
Whether ‘postmodernism’ is seen as a critical concept or merely a buzzword, one cannot deny its range. Dick Hebdige, in his ‘Hiding in the Light’ illustrates this:
When it becomes possible for people to describe as ‘postmodern’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘scratch’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘intertextual’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘metaphysics of presence’ a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘predicament of reflexitivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and/or crisis, the ‘de-centring’ of the subject, an ‘incredulity towards metanarratives’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power/discourse formations, the ‘implosion of meaning’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘media’, ‘consumer’ or ‘multinational’ phase, a sense (depending on who you read) of ‘placelessness’ or the abandonment of ‘placelessness’ (critical regionalism) or (even) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates: when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘postmodern’ (or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘post’ or ‘very post’) then it’s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.