December 2011
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mocasia asked: I love your taste and you mentioned Armstrong and I sound my summers in salmon arm. Your blog is lovely
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dropouthangoutspaceout:
The phrase ‘speculative realism’ is no longer beloved by everyone it describes, and may be used less often in the future. I still find it to be an effective term, one that draws wide attention to a fairly diverse set of philsophical programmes by pointing accurately to key similarities among them. Though it is always a badge of honour for intellectuals to refuse being...
streetleveljapan:
The Fall - “Hark The Herald...
Update
Dinner is tourtiere, of a rustic sort. Darcy’s brother just made me a “Canadian Maple,” which is pretty tasty.
My mother and niece are giving each other temporary tattoos.
Update update: my sister became enraged after seeing that my mom had tattooed roses on both of Mia’s cheeks. They have been washed off.
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Christmas in Armstrong, BC
I’m at my sister’s boyfriend’s family’s house, waiting for dinner while three dogs frolic around the kitchen. There’s also a large guinea pig cage right next to the kitchen table. People are drinking Rockstar vodka lite and talking about job opportunities in welding and concrete. I have a bad cold and I’m really hoping that nobody asks me what I do for a living....
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In the New York Art Scene, Spectacle and Substance... →
The amount of shit you can see in one year in New York is just mind-boggling.
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I DO blame Pearl Jam for Nickelback
Just saying.
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Philosophical Improvisations
lareviewofbooks:
JON COTNER on Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti’s The Chairs Are Where the People Go. Black Whole Conference © Michel de Broin, 2006 (72 chairs)
Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti The Chairs Are Where the People Go Faber & Faber, July 2011. 192 pp. At Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, New York, I teach a writing workshop called “Daily Life.” Students read poets, philosophers,...
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: LARB Podcast #1:... →
lareviewofbooks:
The authors of The Chairs Are Where the People Go interviewed by TOM LUTZ
[Click on book cover to play audio; right click to download; iTunes version coming soon]
This is the first episode of the new Los Angeles Review of Books podcast series (soon to be available on iTunes)….
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Best New Ren Faire
maura:
If your takeaway from Mumford and Sons was “decent, but needs more yelling by packs of drunk-sounding bros,” you’re gonna love Wu Lyf.
Bahahaha
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“The fact that there was any debate over whether to call in experts on such a...”
– Joshua Kopstein, Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works This friends, is the most important article you’ll read today.
The late Christopher Hitchens
otto-obrien:
Don’t take this the wrong way, but the glowing tributes to Christopher Hitchens are both tasteless and incorrect. Have some decency. The boring wisdom has it that Hitchens broke the mould intellectually. He did not. For all the unique saleability of the Hitchensian idiolect (or intertext), he was a very conventional thinker, in addition to being a provincial. He also had a...
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Watchhighpresssure:
must have been stoned as fuck when i did this, because i can’t think of any other reason for recording a thunderstorm on your computer while streaming a jazz song. but now i can’t remember what the song is. the video isn’t worth watching, but can anyone ID the track? Thanks…
Eddie Gale - ghetto summertime
Teenanger - Frights
jeremyjansen:
niallmcclelland:
New Album!
Stream it here.
Then grab the vinyl!
Jer and I did the the album art.
true story
rawk musick
marathonpacks: Numbers →
marathonpacks:
The sales numbers of Pitchfork’s top 50 albums. The ones with suspiciously round numbers are estimations based on when an album dropped out of the top 200 and the fact that it has to sell less than 300 copies in a week to do so. If you have verified numbers to fix any mistakes or omissions, send…
Interesting! Across the board, sales figures are pretty dismal. Also, I...
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Onticology and Politics « Larval Subjects . →
So if I consider myself a Marxist materialist then why am I embracing realism? Part of the reasons arise from the very sort of critical historical meditation you bring up in your remarks. In my view, the move beyond Fordist modes of production consisted in a shift to media/knowledge/information production roughly at the behest of biopower. Nonetheless, this form of production– while itself...
Poptimist: Take Me to the River | Features |... →
But nanoculture isn’t going to disappear— it’s too vibrant and bolshy to be cowed or worried into respectability. At its imitative, collective best, it has a familiar junkyard energy: it’s demonized, lionized, and cashed-in on. It’s forever exploited and forever surprising. It’s ephemeral and debasing, shocking, pointless, and stupid. It makes me feel old and...
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Untitled (curtain)
jeremyjansen:
2011 9,000 punk studs, vinyl curtain, wood 32” x 70”
Rope of Sand
“Rope of Sand” at Soi Fischer
Allison Freeman
Monique Mouton
Andrea Pinheiro
Rachelle Sawatsky
Mina Totino
Shirley Wiitasalo
“The mantel” show looks awesome. Contact Lukas Soi at Soi Fischer to arrange a private viewing this week.
Yup, six works on a mantel. That’s the show.
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Hito Steyerl, Art as Occupation: Claims for an... →
But, you may respond, apart from occasional exposure, I have nothing to do with art whatsoever! How can my life be occupied by it? Perhaps one of the following questions applies to you:
Does art possess you in the guise of endless self-performance? Do you wake feeling like a multiple? Are you on constant auto-display?
Have you been beautified, improved, upgraded, or attempted to do this to...
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Hito Steyerl, Art as Occupation: Claims for an... →
But beyond all this, art doesn’t stop at occupying people, space, or time. It also occupies life as such.
Why should that be the case? Let’s start with a small detour on artistic autonomy. Artistic autonomy was traditionally predicated not on occupation, but on separation—more precisely, on art’s separation from life. As artistic production became more specialized in an industrial world marked...
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Hito Steyerl, Art as Occupation: Claims for an... →
In the context of art, the transition from work to occupation has additional implications. What happens to the work of art in this process? Does it too transform into an occupation?
In part, it does. What used to materialize exclusively as object or product—as (art) work—now tends to appear as activity or performance. These can be as endless as strained budgets and attention spans will allow....
CAPITALISM IS JUST A REALLY BAD WAY OF ORGANIZING...
wwtoo:
Interactive PDF book - Neal Rockwell in conversation with David Graeber.
(right click and save to download)
Print version available for 5 dollars + shipping - Risograph booklet, loop stapled, 36 pages in blue ink. Printed by PAPERPUSHER, distributed by PALIMPSEST.
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Tower of Sleep's Best Albums of 2011
I’m turning 30 next year. Accordingly, 2011 was the year I actually started to feel like an oldster about my listening tastes and habits. It was the first year that I felt any generational confusion or dismay about new music (trollgaze!). It was also the year I quit my music writing job. I still wrote some music criticism, but probably less than any year out of the last five or six — I...
ROPE OF SAND opening + studio visits
jeremyjansen:
Join us! Lucas Soi’s curated exhibit, “Rope Of Sand” opens tonight. ( http://www.soifischer.com/rope_of_sand.html) If your in the neighbourhood and want to see some art, come by for a drink … I figured I’d ride the coat tails and open my studio for visits as well. see you later then? 7pm 1424-A Dundas St. W.
Toronto
Whoa, this looks cool. Might have to stop by after work.
