December 2009
4 posts
“For me, money has displaced the pivotal concepts of twentieth-century European...”
– Philip Goodchild, Theology of Money, p. 265.
“The story of this decade has been about the defeat of bohemia by business. Now...”
– Mark Fisher, “The Age of Consent”
“Aesthetics for me is a matter of rupturing the relation between an object and...”
– Graham Harman, responding to Paul Ennis’ commentary on Harman’s “Vicarious Causation” essay. I am very much in sympathy with Harman’s suggestion of “aesthetics as first philosophy”; though I want to say that “rupturing the relation between an object...
Gaga and Beyonce videos
Just noting some discussions of the recent videos:
Lady Gaga, Bad Romance (Francis Lawrence)
Beyonce f. Lady Gaga, Video Phone (Hype Williams)
There have been several interesting commentaries:
30 Frames on Beyonce/Gaga rivalry
It’s Her Factory on why Video Phone does not have to do with the “male gaze”
Huffington Post on Gaga video
Slate “notes toward a close...