Pinboard: bookmarks for jannon tagged 'choice'

Third Class on a One-Class Train: Fairy Jobmother deconstructed.

"On another note, it’s revealing that Taylor’s partially-successful methods required the production company to shell out on bereavement counselling sessions, gym membership, new clothes and an expensive makeover before even one of the family could enter work. The average jobseeker could not afford any of these things. . . . The obvious point to conclude from this is that the family were too poor to find work. Without some source of disposable cash, they were incapable (even if they were willing) of improving themselves to the standard required." (via danched)

2010 behavior british choice class delicious-export england evaluation fairy.jobmother jobs jobsearch meltdown propaganda resources service services television uk unemployment via:danched wealth
july 2010 by jannon

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the Impostume - The constitution of the addressee

"these films gratify . . . the viewers’ desire to be a complete subject, a subject who is capable of everything, who knows everything, who has experienced everything. On the one hand grounded, responsible, 'realistic', capable of making the right 'choices', on the other hand secretly exultant at having achieved apotheosis, that they are the culmination of history. There is no realm of experience . . . in which they are not potential adepts, the fantasy of polyvalent, omniscient, final and culminatory subject of the end of history is what is spoken to . . . A reasonable definition of Hipsterism . . . is the assumption that there is no position which the middle class subject can not occupy. . . The middle class assumes a kind of transcendent, post-historical emptiness into which all cultures can be incorporated. . . it’s also a metaphysical claim . . . to superiority . . . while others are bounded . . . limited, objects, with a finite set of facets and characteristics. . ."

aesthetics all.things apotheosis audience blairism bourgeois capitalist.realism choice choices choose.life cinema class complete.subjects consciousness consumerism cool.britannia danny.boyle definite.objects delicious-export détournement england ethics experience film gender hipsterism hipsters identity infinite infinity judaism junkies lability life meaning metaphysics middle.class neoliberal.aesthetics neoliberalism nitzavim.vayelech politics polyvalence poverty really.bad.movies religion subjectivity text the.end.of.history trainspotting via:danched
september 2009 by jannon

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