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Poetix » Blog Archive » Nostalgie de la boue (June 2009)
"The question of 'management' here is not the same as [that] of 'organization,' and the difference is precisely one of class and class interests.... 'conspiratorial management,'... blurs this useful distinction to no useful purpose. Public anger can be mobilized around issues where the stakes are clear and the difference between 'their' interests and 'ours' produces a visible antagonism... The antagonisms here are not between 'cleanliness' and 'contagion' but between... those who are concerned with what they make and do, and those who are concerned with securing the profit their class derives from what (mostly other) people make and do. The 'corruption' of the latter is not their motive, to be opposed by a purer motive, but their ontological signature, the subjective form their objective interests call into being and inscribe under the banner of worldly realism. To oppose this 'realism' is not to seek a purer realm, but an alternative, painstakingly 'worlded,' subjective figure."
antagonism  antagonisms  badiou  class  common  corruption  delicious-export  dennett  desire  dominic.fox  fight.back  flesh  motive  narrative  nostalgia  ontological  opposition  politics  purity  resistance  response  self  subjectivity  vulgar 
december 2009 by jannon
things magazine: more thoughts on ice cream and (May 2009)
"Nostalgia undoubtedly exists, and some sites fuel it more than others. But what's far more interesting - certainly in terms of design - is the reliance of contemporary architecture and design journals - on and off line - on the striking image as a means of snaring eyeballs and gathering clicks. There's nothing retro or nostalgic whatsoever about the churn rate in contemporary design imagery, a cottage industry that demands constant reinvention, novelty, form and drama. . . .More than ever before, contemporary architecture exists to be seen, consumed via a through choice images, rather than actually experienced. . . . encourages the design and construction of miniature icons, houses that can be consumed with a single glance and not understood on anything other than a superficial level. . . . Gestural, theatrical architecture has gained a vast following in just a couple of years, raising expectations about the role of modern residential design."
aesthetics  architecture  art  attention  capitalism  capitalism.and.aesthetics  contemporary  criticism  curation  debate  delicious-export  design  enthusiasm  ephemera  ephemerality  formenschatz.der.geschichte  historiography  history  housing  ice.cream.vans  iconic  image  knowledge  las.vegas  losangeles  meltdown  modernism  mündigkeit  nostalgia  power  residential  reyner.banham  scopophilia  venturi  wealth 
december 2009 by jannon
The Barrel Organ a poem by Alfred Noyes
I showed my Granny my pictures of Kew and she started to repeat the refrain of this poem, so we decided to look it up.
20th.century  alfred.noyes  delicious-export  edwardian  kew.gardens  lilacs  nostalgia  poetry  sunset  verse 
november 2009 by jannon
sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy: Austerity Nostalgia (February 2009)
owen hatherley's first extended take on the topic (later extended, see other owen.hatherley items). good stuff in the comments, including mr. hatherley's final words: "it's not Modernism in the sense of El Lissitzky or Herbert Bayer but it is clearly informed by a modernism."
50s  60s  advertising  austerity  authority  catastrophe  consumerism  critical  criticism  culture  delicious-export  england  essay  fall  graphics  history  keep.calm.and.carry.on  legislated.nostalgia  meltdown  memory  modernism  music  nostalgia  posters  recession  retro  the.state  theory  thrift  uk 
november 2009 by jannon
In a Villanelle Mood « London Review Blog
of course, michael wood teaches at princeton, so honestly what does he expect? that that context will deliver him a crowd of students eager to perceive deep structures of society? seriously?? (via danched)
20th.century  academia  barthes  class  claude.lévi-strauss  colm.tóibín  delicious-export  earnest.hand-wringing  ego  history  humour  id  lrb  michael.wood  myths.of.a.golden.age  nostalgia  poetry  psychoanalysis  psychology  saussure  semiotics  structuralism  students  theory  villanelle 
november 2009 by jannon
k-punk: Be negative
not mentioned but related: employees as deputized "brand-managers" in social media as another form of economically enforced compulsory positivity and enclosure of affect & its expressions. also the conservatism of youth is something I feel like I could write for ages on, if I could ever write . . .
affect  affirmationism  blahblahblah  boosterism  capitalism  cheer  cheerleading  compulsory  compulsory.affirmationism  compulsory.positivity  conservatism  consumption  criticism  delicious-export  depression  energy  everything.is.cool  flatness  get.excited.and.make.things  k-punk  liking.anything  music  negativity  nostalgia  pop  positivity  psychology  punk  radical  youth 
september 2009 by jannon
Death to the picturesque! | open Democracy News Analysis
meades on the picturesque as willful denial of the realities of rural work by the fastidious inhabitants of subtopia (aka suburbia). very much in agreement. also furthers my sense that this cultural moment is one that falls for / seems to want an aesthetic of the post-industrial picturesque. (via danched)
architecture  city  country  delicious-export  domestic  economics  england  fastidiousness  framed  imagination  landscape  meades  meat  nostalgia  pictures  picturesque  romanticism  rural  rurality  subtopia  suburbia  transformation  uk  via:danched  view  work  world 
august 2009 by jannon
channel4 | Britain's drowned world
when I learned about this as a kid in Germany, the area obviously wasn't called "a part of Britain"
England  Europe  archaeology  climate.change  delicious-export  doggerland  flood  geography  glacial.melt  glaciers  history  ice.age  nostalgia  oceans  science  sea.levels 
may 2008 by jannon
BLDGBLOG: Greater Los Angeles
love. best thing I've read since the last time I wrote "best thing I've read" as a comment here.<---looking at this again in 2009, I guess when I am stuck in mild depression I am basically feeling cynically like: hell, there is no fighting and winning anyway, so you may as well build it into the most incomprehensible extreme, where escape and nothingness absorbs every ephemeral moment.
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october 2007 by jannon
Classic Cafes | Britannia Moribundia
for katja, quotes on the appeal of modern ruins in the uk
culture  decay  delicious-export  history  nostalgia  old.cities  ruins  uk 
june 2007 by jannon

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