Tropige Trauben

Warum gibt es sowas nicht in D? Mark Fisher schreibt über Musik, Batman und die Reaktion auf Privatisierungen. Und es ist jedesmal interessant.

The Dark Knight by no means presents 'tough choices' as 'hard but necessary'; on the contrary, whenever Batman resorts to torture, it either yields nothing or is counterproductive. What neocon readings of the film must overlook is that this is exactly the same in geopolitical reality: far from being unpalatable but necessary, the Iraq misadventure, Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary rendition etc have either achieved no results or made things worse. What's interesting here is the doggedness of the neocon fantasy, which is precisely a fantasy of 'being realistic' (...)

Seine Vision zumindest kennt so mancher erwachsene Deutsche aus "Star Trek", wo eine Konföderation der Guten ein interplanetarisches Reich des Friedens errichtet hat. Ganz im Sinne Immanuel Kants, der erklärte, der ewige Friede sei keine leere Idee, "sondern eine Aufgabe, die ihrem Ziele beständig näher kommt".

Cultural Marxists thus developed several strategic tools, among which
have become known as CRITICAL THEORY and ANDROGYNY. So pervasive has
the deployment of the later tool become over the past forty years,
you can observe some application of it in almost every Hollywood
movie. Indeed, today a majority of movies coming out not only display
ALIEN WOMEN, but have at least one of the following ANDROGYNOUS
ELEMENTS:

Dysfunctional family
Divorced or separated family
Wife is harsh, aggressive, and/or slut
Husband is aloof and/or cheater
"Stay-at-home mother" is ABNORMAL
"Out-of-the-house mother" is NORMAL
Father is gone, drunk, abusive or tardy
Young children are in day "care"
Older children hate/dislike father, mother or both
Father, mother or sibling cross-dresses
Gay or lesbian in the family
Gay or lesbian friend
Homosexuals ALWAYS portrayed as "more normal" or "saner"

Wer mehr wissen will, hier ist der Trailer. (via nettime)

Ich soll nach Dublin fliegen. Kennt jemand eine günstige Verbindung von NRW aus?

Gestern eine Dokumentation über Robert Frank gesehen. Darin der Satz "I stared at the landscape waiting for answers. But there was no answer." Danach kurz gelacht und mich gefragt, ob ich nicht zu alt für die Beats bin.

Das sind keine guten Nachrichten.