Boab referenced this article and it enraged him because the central idea is that Damien Hirst creates 'art', and Banksy doesn't. My feelings on what is 'art' are fairly well trodden in my mind, as it's something I return to often. However, I'm not sure if I've ever put it out there in it's pure form. I'm normally allying it to my thoughts about ( Read more... )

Things aren't too bad at the moment. Of course, that is asking for everything to fuck up. But there have been so many dramas, so many catastrophes in the last 6 months that I'm just tired of them. The weekend was really good, apart from a slight bit of panic that I'd been a bit of a drunken tit at times (kindly assuaged by
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I wonder about expression. While it's easy (and often true) to claim only middle class people vote, is it only middle class people whoindulge in 'art' as expression. I suppose that 'art', even as it is considered now, is similar to 'culture' in the way that it is a safe way of experiencing something dangerous. Real "art" must be an expression of ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5379650.stm

Haha, how much of a lefty am I?! I read that book two years ago! Keep up Chavez, I'm the real deal here.

Although... I thought it complete propoganda. A well-read Michael Moore. Nearly as bad as Bush and the Neo-Cons (how bitchin' a band name would that be?!), just biased the other way. Chomsky ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5356820.stm

How about this for reasoning:

• Secularism rises when people have more certainty in their lives
• Religious leaders realise this
• Fanning the flames of war, xenophobia and uncertainty becomes widespread
• More people rediscover a need for religion
• Donations/followers to religions increase

Something to do on a lazy Sunday afternoon

I'm so uttterly bored with mainstream culture. It's processes and paradigms make me sick. The basis of it all, the hegemony and homogination of culture, values and thoughts. Just the bloody facile, purile shot-termism of it all. I'm sick of it. All newspapers, TV, magazines. The shit you have to wade ( Read more... )

Right, so like the rest of the human race (well, most of it) I think of things. I feel that I'd like to write some of them down. Some I'd like to share, and maybe get feedback, as I'd not like to go around without my ignorance constantly being questioned. Because that would be unhealthy. I'm not sure how to go about this. Should I create an opt-in ( Read more... )

I refuse to go quietly into the night,
I refuse to sit by whilst my morals go out of the window because I need to pay my rent,
I refuse to stay in at the weekends,
I refuse to get to know soap operas,
I refuse to agree with national foreign policy because "I can't do anything about it",
I refuse to watch Big Brother because "there's nothing else on",
I ( Read more... )