Title: Family Business ( Read more... )

This work on Barbara Kruger is depressing me. J G Ballard was the last moralist I could believe in, and sometimes I really want morals. Sure some days I can be all amorally postmodern and shit, even read a magazine without wanting to puke, but this isn't one of those days ( Read more... )

Not so long ago I was reading a discussion on metafandom about fiction dealing with abuse. The poster had experience of this trauma and wanted to talk about some of the (dire) misconceptions that come up time and time again in fic - which make at best a bad story, and at worst a triggery insult. Now I can kind of see both sides of this. Part of the ( Read more... )

Title: A Modern Plague ( Read more... )

I live in a turbo-capitalist society, so a lot of demeaning media wank kind of goes over my head - the kind of advertising aimed at young women and girls especially. But my stomach pretty much dropped last week when I opened the free paper to
this particular piece of fucked-up fuckeryon the bus on my way into college. I know I really shouldn't be ( Read more... )

( Warning: here be theory. )

Greetings. I come in optimism ( Read more... )