Archive of posts filed under the politricks category.
lefty shout out
clownfeast
@ bk
watch the skies
I don’t normally buy Fortean Times, but Paul Meme has kindly pointed out that the latest issue (with JFK biz on the front) includes a massive article on Juan Posadas, the argentinian trotskyist. Posadas is possibly most well-known for his theories about aliens necessarily having a marxist-leninist analysis (because obviously the only civilisation sufficiently advanced …
oodles of doodles
The cartoons below are taken from More Politics Please by Paul Petard (Whinger Press, 2003). 50p (bargain!) from Housmans Books at the south end of Caledonian Road in London, or from 22 Rangewood Ave RG30 3NN (include SAE). Or ppetard hotmail com Whinger have also recently published Communism, Liberty and Freedom – some brief notes …
pirates, politics, parochialism
\ I can hear a groan in the nerdosphere every time I mention politics. Which is completely understandable – people come here to escape from work or for an injection of cultural weirdness or whatever. So mostly I just sneak it into the stuff about music, heh heh. I’ve never been a member of a political …
flash. aaaaaaaaaaaaargh
I share Jim’s* reservations about the Flash Mob thing. It seems to me like they are “the Reclaim The Streets actions it’s OK to go on”. Had a brief text discussion with my sister about this and felt a bit frustrated about the whole thing. It’s obviously a widespread desire to do something spontaneous, someting …
kdubpunk
Me and K-Punk in agreement re: Mark Stewart. Good bit of text there, nice one. The stuff about not being embarrassed especially, is crucial, I think. It’s one of the cornerstones of alientation, isn’t it? The feeling that if you try and actually DO something which isn’t part of the prescribed list of acceptable work/leisure, …
none dare call it conspiracy
On a not entirely unrelated note, I keep meaning to re-read The Conspiracy of Good Taste by Stefan Szczelkun (published by WORKING PRESS 1993 9.95 pounds sterling. ISBN 1 870736 69 9) I think this addresses some of the pitfalls of taking on society’s view of what consitutes “good taste” which may or may not …