1st October 1980
Look at this f-ing scenester.
July 21, 2010
June 19, 2010
"I’m quiet not punk not dada"
— as seen on a t-shirt in Borj Hammoud
February 14, 2010
Affect Blog » (Geo)Politic{s} and its Love Affair with [Brackets]
“There seems to be a definite propensity for academics in the field(s) of (geo)politics and critical/radical geographies to (bracket) up as many of the complex [‘general group identification words’] as possible. Is this a case of academic elitism that creates an ‘in-crowd’ by using a shared style of expression? Where the use of (brackets) allows the budding critical/poltico/social/economistic/philso/anthro/geo-graphers to to carve out and perform/create ‘their’ own {multiple} identities? Or perhaps it is to highlight the pluralities (multiple meanings) of self-reflexive and self-critical discourses that seem as resistant to self-identification as they do the labeling of others.
Or perhaps pragmatism holds the key - brackets provide a quick and possibly eloquent way of covering multiple meanings and identities all at once; one that allows academics to sidestep any real commitment to a particular label and so avoid arguments being sidetracked by endless rounds of name calling.
Either way, the written bracket {in relation to the meanings it hopes to convey in these contexts} occupies a rather ambiguous space. The mark itself is inherently divisive and yet its deployment in this manner acts as a point of convergence for multiple (possibly) disparate narratives and discourses.
Or perhaps I’m reading too much into it. Then again, there’s always the “/”.”
what about the <angle> bracket? don’t marginalize it, [(typonormative-) fascist] k? >:|
January 28, 2010
Homegirls Potato Chips: It’s all that.
via clingtomymouth + jhnbrssndn + bringtheruckuss + carlovely + blondie-suicide
January 26, 2010
Cynthia Rowley presents:
November 24, 2009
“we ain’t dead said the children don’t believe it / we just made ourselves invisible”
- Erykah Badu
guerrillamamamedicine + wocsurvivalkit + okayplayer + shalon + fuckyeahblackbeauties
September 27, 2009
September 27, 2009
September 14, 2009
“Colonel Qaddafi—A Life in Fashion”
Since completing his transition from international pariah to statesman, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi—the longest-serving leader in both Africa and the Arab world—has brought color and his own eccentric panache to the drab circuit of international summits and conferences. Drawing upon the influences of Lacroix, Liberace, Phil Spector (for hair), Snoopy, and Idi Amin, Libya’s leader—now in his 60s—is simply the most unabashed dresser on the world stage. We pay homage to a sartorial genius of our time. (via Fashion, Qaddafi-Style)
igather: “Oh internet.”
July 30, 2009
via beirut/ntsc: OK, I don’t believe that uppity people who blow 200 USD on a T-shirt are serious environmental defenders, but then, planting a tree is planting a tree…. Maybe this is just Aizone trying to jump on the Corporate Social Responsiblity (CSR) bandwagon….
June 19, 2009
June 17, 2009
i’ll show you “wear & tear”
Today is the day I stood up said: “Hey! Nike—@$%#-face! Take a step back and literally—” …*deep breath*
Seriously though, if I’m not mistaken, shoes are supposed to last more that 2.5 months. I went yesterday to Wellgosh where I made the awful principle-shirking decision to buy my first pair of Nikes ever (simply because I couldn’t find anything else that worth the price in this city)…
[@MXML] got his 1st pair of Nikes this week. After years of denigrating the Swoosh, he must admit never wearing anything comfier. Is he making peace with the system? :( [Facebook status and some replies:]
A comment from the ” borjwaze”… bravo 3leik :D
Somewhere, a tiny Vietnamese child weeps.
Serves me right. Anyway, I spoke to a stooge of the coordinating class trying to convince that a) it was normal wear and tear and b) anyway, there’s nothing that can be done since once he bought something from footlocker which fell apart in 3 days and they did squat for him. Uhuh. Well I insisted and insisted and finally he said to come the next day to talk to the manager (higher up on the capitalist-coordinator scale), adding that they’d “support me” if I felt like taking Nike on.
And so I did. The manager was very helpful, though he insisted the heel was normal wear and tear (it would hardly seem so—might put pics up), but didn’t say anything about the side spitting cleanly along the seam… He offered to call “the guy in charge” in Nike directly, avoiding the telephone-webs of death and saving me an assload of effort. Long story short, he explained the procedure, and so I’ll be sending them my shoes bright and early tomorrow.
allaho akbar.
June 15, 2009
My Champs, circa October 2008. Been looking for a pair in black, but it seems they’ve stopped making shoes…
May 1, 2009
"The meaning of a cultural form and its place or position in the cultural field is not inscribed inside its form. Nor is its position fixed once and forever. This year’s radical symbol or slogan will be neutralized into next year’s fashion; the year after, it will be the object of a profound cultural nostalgia."
— Hall S. Notes on deconstructing “the Popular”. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader, 2nd Edition, J Storey (Ed). London: Prentice Hall. (Pp. 448-449)
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