Helge

"For generations, kids couldn’t wait until they reached adulthood so they could smoke, drink, eat..."

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:07:20 -0500

“For generations, kids couldn’t wait until they reached adulthood so they could smoke, drink, eat four-course meals, make money, drive cars, have sex, and, if they were the type to join the military, legally kill other human beings. Now we would rather log on and tune out, preferably in the womb-like comfort of a Snuggie, which is the perfect thing to wear as we gaze at photos of kittens while gnawing on delicious cupcakes.”

- nom nom nom

"Brands are a mechanism for the transformation of affective energies into valuable forms of..."

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:50:34 -0500

“Brands are a mechanism for the transformation of affective energies into valuable forms of immaterial labor.”

- Adam Arvidsson

"Politics and therapy will be one and the same activity in the coming time. People will feel hopeless..."

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:56:41 -0500

“Politics and therapy will be one and the same activity in the coming time. People will feel hopeless and depressed and panicking, because they are unable to deal with the post-growth economy, and because they will miss the dissolving modern identity. Our cultural task will be attending to those people and taking care of their insanity, showing them the way of a happy adaptation at hand. Our task will be the creation of social zones of human resistance that act like zones of therapeutic contagion. The process of autonomisation has not to be seen as a Aufhebung, but as Therapy. In this sense it is not totalizing and intended to destroy and abolish the past. Like psychoanalytic therapy it is rather to be considered as an unending process.”

- Franco Berardi

Aspekte des Strukturwandels in der Musikwirtschaft

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:18:44 -0500

Aspekte des Strukturwandels in der Musikwirtschaft

Hipster. Eine posttraditionale Gemeinschaft?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:08:46 -0500

Hipster. Eine posttraditionale Gemeinschaft?

"Denn letztens ist der Kunde nichts anderes für ein Unternehmen als ein fremder Volksstamm, dessen..."

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:50:36 -0500

“Denn letztens ist der Kunde nichts anderes für ein Unternehmen als ein fremder Volksstamm, dessen Kultur, Lebensumstände, Rituale, Verhaltensmuster und Bedeutungszuweisungen es zu verstehen gilt.”

- Franz Liebl, Do Placebo Products Dream Of Electric Sheep?

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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:45:05 -0500

"Das Junge-Mädchen hat die Mission erhalten, eine überall düster gewordene Warenwelt erneut zu..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:59:42 -0500

“Das Junge-Mädchen hat die Mission erhalten, eine überall düster gewordene Warenwelt erneut zu verzaubern, die Katastrophe bis in die Freude und Sorglosigkeit zu verlängern. In ihm kündigt sich eine Konsumform zweiten Grades an: der Konsum der Konsumenten. Wenn man sich an den Anschein hält, was in vielen Fällen legitim geworden ist, müsste man sagen, dass es der Ware mit dem Jungen-Mädchen gelungen ist, das Nicht-Warenmäßige voll und ganz zu annektieren.”

- Tiqqun, Grundbausteine einer Theorie des Jungen-Mädchens

"Es gilt zu entdecken, daß an der Wurzel dessen, was wir erkennen und was wir sind, nicht die..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:59:54 -0500

“Es gilt zu entdecken, daß an der Wurzel dessen, was wir erkennen und was wir sind, nicht die Wahrheit und das Sein steht, sondern die Äußerlichkeit des Zufälligen.”

- Michel Foucault: Nietzsche, die Genealogie, die Historie

Photo

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:35:19 -0400

"Die Städte sind zunächst die Sitze der höchsten wirtschaftlichen Arbeitsteilung; sie erzeugen darin..."

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:11:00 -0400

“Die Städte sind zunächst die Sitze der höchsten wirtschaftlichen Arbeitsteilung; sie erzeugen darin so extreme Erscheinungen, wie in Paris den einträglichen Beruf des Quatorzième: Personen, durch Schilder an ihren Wohnungen kenntlich, die sich zur Dinerstunde in angemessenem Kostüm bereit halten, um schnell herangeholt zu werden, wo sich in einer Gesellschaft 13 am Tisch befinden.”

- Georg Simmel, Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben, 1903

Soviet subculture

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:44:37 -0400

Stilyagi were members of a youth subculture that existed from the late 1940s until the early 1960s in the USSR. Stilyagi generally opposed the mainstream Soviet ideology of that time and were primarily distinguished by their snappy or unfashionate clothing, considered politically incorrect and contrasting the communist-socialist realities.

From the movie Stilyagi (2008):

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Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:00:51 -0400

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Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:00:19 -0400

"Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies?"

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:07:00 -0400

“Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies?”

- Edward Young, 1759

Touchable Holography

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:24:00 -0400

Touchable Holography

"Only workers producing for Apple are given a stool to sit while working, and all others must stand."

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:13:00 -0400

“Only workers producing for Apple are given a stool to sit while working, and all others must stand.”

- Sun Danyong commited suicide

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Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:32:00 -0400

"The contemporary array of brands and models supplies a useful code of social status to offset the..."

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:44:51 -0400

“The contemporary array of brands and models supplies a useful code of social status to offset the anonymity of driving, and the vertiginous altitude of Delhi’s class system comes through admirably, even on the horizontal roads. Car brands regulate the relationships between drivers: impatient Mercedes flash Marutis to let them through the throng, and Marutis move aside. BMW limousines are so well insulated that passengers don’t even hear the incessant horn with which chauffeurs disperse everything in their path. Canary-yellow Hummers lumber over the concrete barriers from the heaving jam into the empty bus lanes and accelerate illegally past the masses – and traffic police look away, for what cop is going to risk his life to challenge the entitlement of rich kids? Yes, the privileges of brand rank are enforced by violence if need be: a Hyundai driver gets out of his car to kick in the doors of a Maruti that kept him dawdling behind, while young men in a Mercedes chase after a Tata driver who dared abuse them out of the window, running him down and slapping him as if he were an insubordinate kid.”

- Capital Gains

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Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:27:08 -0400