January 2012
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When I need a shit I think of my grandma
I’m in the pub with the drinkers and the train drivers and the commuters waiting for the Virgin speed train to London Euston from Lime Street and all they’ve got on tap that doesn’t make me baulk is Peroni so I order a half and count out the change from what I can find in my pocket and in the zip of my wallet even though I’ve got only fifteen minutes to wait before I can...
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Millenarian Predictions 2012 Special Part of the...
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Love this street art by Pavel Puhov featured at... →
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History in the making | Kate Webb for Red Pepper →
Interesting review of Paul Mason’s new book, ‘Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions’.
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Remember: capitalism is still using more energy to eat itself than it gets from eating itself. Really capitalism is like one cucumber eating another cucumber. Except not even as good as cucumber as there’s no fibre in capitalism and it isn’t a friendly shape and as far as I know a cucumber has never depressed or brutalised or killed a person. That’d be one scary ass...
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Last night's dream
Something went wrong with the tigers at my friend’s wedding and most of the badgers got washed down the river but me and Michael Fassbender escaped together.
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Film 2012
< See last year’s list (kinda incomplete)
Films I saw for the first time this year.
JANUARY The Iron Lady J. Edgar
IDEAS Young Adult, Arrietty, Coriolanus, The Artist, Carnage, A Dangerous Method, Natural Selection, Haywire, Martha Marcy…, Shame, On The Road, A Separation, Margaret, Resistance, The Deep Blue Sea, Take Shelter
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Below the breadline in Liverpool →
I hate the word “workless” and there isn’t much analysis in this piece but hats off to this man for speaking his part.
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What are memories made of? | guardian.co.uk →
Fascinating intro from UCL neuroscientist Hugo Spiers to the physiology of memory (and thus consciousness) and its impact on the way we live.
Your memories are patterns inscribed in the connections between the millions of neurons in your brain. Each memory has its unique pattern of activity, logged in the vast cellular network every time a memory is formed.
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The Revolt of the Salaried Bourgeoisie | Slavoj... →
Zizek’s latest bit, responding to Hardt and Negri’s Multitude. On the privatisation of ‘general intellect’, China and anti-capitalist protests, amongst other things.
