http://www.haloscan.com/ Latest comments for culturemonkey. Syndicated by HaloScan http://www.haloscan.com/ http://www.haloscan.com/halolink.gif http://www.haloscan.com/ 88 31 Commenting Powered by HaloScan.com http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/7083559895980025151/?src=hsr#78180 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:47:34 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/7083559895980025151/?src=hsrs#78180 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/7083559895980025151/?src=hsrs#78180 Dear Gerry, i found your blog through mariborchan and just wanted to point your attention to our website, which includes material you might find interesting. Incidentally, the theme of our first issue was 'nature & culture' - you can check it out on the magazine section of the website. www.bedeutung.co.uk all best regards, Alex http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/4682396014769623668/?src=hsr#71520 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:00:05 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/4682396014769623668/?src=hsrs#71520 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/4682396014769623668/?src=hsrs#71520 You might be interested in my book, Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), which Slavoj really likes ("outstanding") and which he's been using to craft the talks and essays. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/4682396014769623668/?src=hsr#68713 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:30:23 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/4682396014769623668/?src=hsrs#68713 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/4682396014769623668/?src=hsrs#68713 I actually think Zizek, a rampant anti-capitalist, is daying that the Left only has an opposite position to capitalism on the surface, when in reality they share the same presumptions of Fukayama and pro-capitalist's. In other words, even anti-capitalist marxists are acting with capitalist assumptions and within a capitalist framework. As for Zizek's coment on the infinite adaptability of capitali... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/7083559895980025151/?src=hsr#62437 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:55:07 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/7083559895980025151/?src=hsrs#62437 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/7083559895980025151/?src=hsrs#62437 To respond to an old comment, I believe Zizek is fully aware of the social costs of industrial capitalism, however his argument is that addressing ecological disaster is not utopian. We may well save the world from global warming, who knows, but the catastrophe occurred centuries ago and it's called capitalism. Addressing ecology may well save lives and preserve many endangered ecosystems, but the... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/1312034679070813569/?src=hsr#51616 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:13:46 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/1312034679070813569/?src=hsrs#51616 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/1312034679070813569/?src=hsrs#51616 to G C - i'm just going to reply to you here from now on, this is from the other blog: G C, thanks for the complements, that seems right about the ’50s as a fucked up security blanket. i don’t get how acephalous’s post makes a counterargument to the ‘manifest content’ of the movie as an apology for capitalist excess — sure there’s nuance, some give and take, but as i think even he’s arguing,... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/1312034679070813569/?src=hsr#51615 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:12:15 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/1312034679070813569/?src=hsrs#51615 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/1312034679070813569/?src=hsrs#51615 roger, thanks, i agree -- though i think the prejudice also enters into the production, the effect being the dark knight advertises its topicality at every turn, maybe that's now the general expectation for such a big violent fantasy. charles, yours is the most vague criticism i have ever read. if you were looking for narrative rules, check the a.o. scott piece i referenced. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/1312034679070813569/?src=hsr#51591 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:31:20 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/1312034679070813569/?src=hsrs#51591 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/1312034679070813569/?src=hsrs#51591 I've not seen any of the summer's spectaculars, but - I never let lack of experience get in the way of theory! Which is why I've puzzled over why The Dark Knight evokes all these political readings, and Mama Mia evokes nothing - my theory being that this is a perfect example of the gender division within which American politics is defined. A movie about marriage and - inevitably - negotiating conf... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/1312034679070813569/?src=hsr#51588 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:48:19 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/1312034679070813569/?src=hsrs#51588 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/1312034679070813569/?src=hsrs#51588 "The producers have figured out how to please everyone: maintain earnestness regardless of the inherent absurdity of the genre, be 'topical' by way of empty allegory, be spectacularly violent, never stop moralizing. Meet these requirements, and a great deal of variety is possible: one has free reign to be jokey or serious, bright or gloomy, undisguisedly sexist, racist, homophobic, or none of the http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/1312034679070813569/?src=hsr#51472 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:25:48 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/1312034679070813569/?src=hsrs#51472 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/1312034679070813569/?src=hsrs#51472 (crossposted from here) This really is the definitive post on Dark Knight. But a few quick thoughts. First, I think Acephalous's attempt to rehabilitate the film from attempts to understand it solely as a "bal http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/7083559895980025151/?src=hsr#49866 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:29:42 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/7083559895980025151/?src=hsrs#49866 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/culturemonkey/7083559895980025151/?src=hsrs#49866 I wish Haloscan had a favoriting system so I could favorite that comment. Really great.