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Category Archives: stupid stuff

Why Murdoch’s Empire needs splitting up

17-Jul-11

Here’s Fox News’s blitheringly inept attempt at dismissing the recent News Corp Hacking scandal.   I’m sorry, but coverage on News corp and News International is getting ‘too much attention’, from a news channel owned by News Corp and News International? Clumsy, clumsy stuff. The last thing that should happen is for this debacle to [...]

Smugness

03-Jun-11

I’ve come to the conclusion that smugness is, well, pretty much everywhere I turn. The superiority that smug people feel in the lucid anticipation of telling you some personal triumphant event in their lives. This attitude is moronic and belittling. Why is social justification an excuse for smug comparison? From the most banal of conversations [...]

A bountiful crop

30-May-11

Sorry for the lack of posts – but I promised myself that I would get down to some serious writing this bank holiday weekend, and I have (15000 words in three days is good going – even if it is 15000 words that need to be severely edited). That is not the only thing that [...]

The 21st May Meillassouxian Devils Advocate

21-May-11

What if the world actually ended today in the form of a massive biblical earthquake, eight months of hell on earth, souls plucked from a chosen few, and fiery demons pulling your close ones apart limb by limb? But, what if this happened for no necessary reason whatsoever? It just happened? Would it matter?

Not liked by Canadian Photographers

08-May-11

Thought I should share this forum discussion on the NPAC (News Photographers Association of Canada) website. Some nice fellow has linked a post of mine regarding Fried, Jeff Wall and OOO. Bizarrely, its generated a bundle of hits based on my ‘intellectual-dialogue’. Here is my favourite bit; “That article you referenced Fred reminds me of [...]

Trigger’s Broom (revisited)

07-May-11

Judging from the private emailed response to my article in Speculations Vol.2, it seems that a few people are getting a lot out of the OOO / Trigger’s Broom metaphor. I’ve written about this elsewhere, but here it is in Speculations + the clip; “There is a wonderful scene in the British television sitcom Only [...]

Most laughable quote last night..

13-Mar-11

“I think I might be able to help: I’m a veterinarian” I have not seen a film at the cinema for while, so for reasons unknown to anyone, I was talked into witnessing Battle: Los Angeles. Review? It’s horrendous and a waste of projection electricity. There is zero substance behind anything, like Michael Bay with [...]

Irreducible Determinate Entities: Wolfram, Agency and Complexity

10-Mar-11

WARNING: this is a very long post, but also the beginnings of my position. So tread carefully. Yesterday, Levi and Tim posted intriguing accounts of theorising OOO agency, without descending into individualist freedom or determined holism. So here is the problem, as they both see it politically; “Arguing for agency within individuals risks reiterating a [...]

The ever Vicarious Matt Bellamy

21-Feb-11

Basically I might be living about a minute away from Kate Hudson. Word on the street (or field) is that her partner – Muse lynchpin Matt Bellamy – has BOUGHT a farm between Bishopsteignton and Teignmouth (the band grew up in Teignmouth). What’s even more bizarre is that at the end of last month, the couple had a [...]

A good decision if I’m honest

14-Feb-11

Not sure why I’m choosing to blog this, but I find it fascinating nonetheless. Redditch Borough Council have drawn up plans for a crematorium to use the excess energy expended from burning corpses to heat a nearby swimming pool. It would save roughly £14,500 a year. Bizarrely, this has caused some anger in Redditch. Not [...]