Archive
2011
- The Next Generation
- Che vuoi? A spinning top made out of pork
- Zizek’s misreading of Foucault
- The Rumsfeld doctrine
- Hurrah!
- Brooks/Siegler on iMessage
- Hacked!
- Von Trier’s breast
- iPad Killer
- Hey… Hey… Listen..!I have just done something I have never done before. I knocked on the door of my upstairs neighbour to complain about the level of noise issuing from the apartment at two in the morning.
- Teabagging the Nation – A Patriotic PursuitOn February 10, Sarah Palin tweeted a public birthday greeting to Glenn Beck: "Happy B'day Glenn Beck! Ah, the wisdom of our elders..." Apart from the feigned folksiness of the word "B'day" and the astonishing attributing of wisdom to Glenn Beck, the tweet primarily declares an attempted strategic alliance. Self-professed "rodeo clown" Glenn Beck soon reciprocated by suggesting one of the few strategic alliances described by the American Constitution: "Happy belated birthday to my younger friend Sarah. Let's just have a combined party in 2013, to save the WH pastry chef some work." So, however jokingly it may have been put forth, we now have the proposition of a Palin/Beck ballot in 2012.
- Basic instincts and the meaning of lifeI recently spotted an interesting proposal on a Diesel store front: "Be stupid." Intrigued, I read the two connecting billboards: "Smart has the brains. Stupid has the balls." and "Smart listens to the head. Stupid listens to the heart." Of course, it is hardly the first time we see the call for "gut" thinking" in stead of "brain" thinking and we all know that as metaphors for courage, balls and guts are all parts in the same horror movie. Another cry for the supremacy of basic instincts rises from the depths of the Cult commercials: "Party now - Apologize later." A seated man holds the head of a young woman close to the aforementioned balls whilst looking the spectator in the eye with a sober look. The girl, however, looks utterly drunk in a diagonal approach to his membrum virile, as if she had fallen over and happened to land her head on the thing. Once down and greated by a welcoming yet sustaining hand, the girl seems to have thought, "What the hell, now that I am down here..."
- Del og HerskI lederen Kulturracisme [1. Weekendavisen nr 01 - 8. januar 2010] tager Anne Knudsen til orde i debatten om Lars Hedegaards efterhånden famøse påstand: "De voldtager deres egne børn. Det hører man hele tiden. Piger i muslimske familier bliver voldtaget af deres onkler, deres fætre eller deres far." Til den omfattende ståhej, denne udtalelse har afstedkommet, svarer Anne Knudsen: "Hvis nogen efter en tår over tørsten havde forsøgt sig med at lancere påstanden om, at de missionske boller deres døtre tykke, eller at førtidspensionister driver hjemmebordeller med mindreårige, som et seriøst indslag i debatten om noget som helst, havde alle og enhver trukket på skuldrene over det rablende fjols, uanset hvilken forening han eller hun var formand for. Men adskillige fuldvoksne danskere har nu i ugevis seriøst beskæftiget sig med Lars Hedegaards påstand fra denne skuffe. Anne Knudsen mener altså, at Lars Hedegaard har været udsat for en noget pedantisk behandling, der ikke var tilkommet nogen anden i en lignende situation. Altså udgør "adskillige fuldvoksne danskeres" barnlige reaktion en overfølsomhed over for enten Lars Hedegaard eller enhver kritik af Islam. Dette argument er tidligere fremført af Søren Krarup:
- What matter who’s speaking?A friend recently questioned the use of the personal pronoun "we" on aleph.dk. The question was posed on a rather bacchanalesque occasion, so the debate soon wandered off and finally had to sit down against a wall somewhere. In order to actually answer the very interesting question of personal pronouns, however, it would be pertinent to quote Beckett: "Qu’importe qui parle, quelqu’un a dit qu’importe qui parle." There is a funny double entendre in the French original, which is sadly lost in translation. The sentence has three members. The first one is perceived as a question even though it has no question mark. The second member states that someone said something, this something being the third member. The ambiguity arises in this last member, which can be read as both a direct and an indirect quotation. Either someone repeated the question in the first member – "What matter who's speaking" – or someone said that, in fact, it matters who is speaking.
- Anne Knudsens juleevangelium
- Polite vomit
- Muligheden af en anden verden
- To speak and say nothing
- Badiou’s acid wit
- We the People
- Correspondences…
- Dyr og dyr – angivelighedens pris
- Anything but a fatal blow (usually) requires a ready defense
- Rhetorical masturbation makes you blind
- The importance of being Elvis
- Derrida’s haunting of Fragmentum
- The unbearable lightness of being sick
- Housekeeping, libidinal economy, and the problem of saying I – III
- Housekeeping, libidinal economy, and the problem of saying I – II
- Gideon Levy’s article “Let’s hope Obama won’t be a ‘friend of Israel’”
- Housekeeping, libidinal economy, and the problem of saying I – I
- Insurgency of anglo linguistic racism
- The blogification of an index
- Alain Badiou : “Tout antisarkozyste est-il un chien ?”
- House MD – drama eller komedie?
- At være eller ikke at være kulturelWeekendavisens debatsider er, som debatsider jo skal være, fulde af vrisne og ofte tåbelige udsagn, der måske kan irritere nok til, at læseren tager til genmæle og dermed skaber de altid fornøjelige føljetondebatter. De fleste udsagn fortjener dog ikke føljetonen, hvorfor irritationen over dem må finde afløb andetsteds, f.eks. her! I WA 19/3-08 skrev kommende jurist Peter Olsen en herlig samling tankefejl, der da så absolut skal korrekses, uanset disse rettelsers begrænsede udbredelse og uanset, om rettelserne viser sig lige så tåbelige som det rettede.
- Ecology: A New Opium for the Masses
Slavoj Zizek – Tilton Gallery, November 28 2007
