number – hashtag tashlan

Guess the weight of the pig

sukrat OTI — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:50:17 +0000

The guesses will be higher if you mention a big number beforehand

“as the master* teaches us”

sukrat OTI — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:17:34 +0000

Can mark-grubbing suck-ups ever, in themselves, be radicals? Do radical projects always require a host of cautious Tory dittobots to give even good ideas social heft?

*note: master is sometimes a girl

the age of intellectual mass repro

sukrat OTI — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:28:07 +0000

When the first film came out and I spotted you could collect little Lord of the Rings figurines at Burger King, I grinned: I imagined Tolkien’s vast rage at same, and the complex irony of his world-spanning success, in relation to his actual beliefs.

Then I started imagining the factories and warehouses full of these pale green and poorly fashioned figurines, and started feeling a bit ill myself: it’s not such a bad habit, when something mass cultural entertains you momentarily, to imagine how it would strike you en masse.

In my day-job I have to read — and deal with — the terms “appropriation” and “subversion”, maybe not exactly en masse, but far too bloody often. The people using these words (not just these words) mostly imagine they are observing stuff from a higher intellectual plane: on the whole they’re really really not.

clue

sukrat OTI — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:30:38 +0000

I waited to go public with HT:DDD until I had an acceptable number of posts up. Acceptable basically means not divisible by 5, as I intensely disapprove of such quantities. There are other numbers I dislike but soon I’ll stop counting and it won’t matter to anyone.