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dawdle up country: January 2010
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Penninicity; modernisms; lowlands; metronomes; neat touches. Friday, 1 January 2010. Thought to Kick the Year Off. The 'fool' is an innocent, a simpleton, but truths issue from his mouth that are not simply tolerated but adopted, by virtue of the fact that this 'fool' is sometimes clothed in the insignia of the jester. And in my view it is a similar happy shadow, a similar fundamental 'foolery', that accounts for the importance of the left-wing intellectual. Le bruit des cabarets, la fange des trottoirs,.
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dawdle up country: May 2009
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Penninicity; modernisms; lowlands; metronomes; neat touches. Tuesday, 12 May 2009. Liking this a lot #4. Oh, one more. The excellent twohundredpercent's take on the ongoing catastrophe. That is Darlington FC. Liking this a lot #3. And, of course, Jenny. S recent posts, particularly the excellent skewering of the noughties 'angel cult'. And the picture of me. In the 24-hour supermarket on Kertész utca today. Life on the continent really is like living inside an eternal Mantronix set. Liking this a lot #2.
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dawdle up country: April 2009
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Penninicity; modernisms; lowlands; metronomes; neat touches. Wednesday, 22 April 2009. Anyone who feels America or Britain is moving nearer to an Islamist caliphate because of a suicide bomber is a wimp who has no belief in the robustness of democracy. Simon Jenkins on the CIA's use of torture as a method of interrogation in today's Guardian. Probably about time that someone set that idea out in terms as clear as this. Monday, 20 April 2009. RIP JG. Ballard. There's really not much to say here, is there?
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dawdle up country: November 2008
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Penninicity; modernisms; lowlands; metronomes; neat touches. Friday, 28 November 2008. I'll give you shock experience. A message for the Benjaminians amongst you, really.I've just realised that, in a moment of supreme carelessness, I used two different renderings of Benjamin's term for 'that which is lived through' in the thesis. In one place, I have it down as erlebnis. Whilst in another I seem to be calling it erleben. Does anyone know if this is down to a difference between editions? The Idea of North.
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dawdle up country: February 2009
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Penninicity; modernisms; lowlands; metronomes; neat touches. Friday, 27 February 2009. Michael O'Leary, I'm beginning to think, is the world's greatest satirist. He's like some character in a Bill Hicks routine magnified by, well, a large number. Trust me, Gordon. Most of us would be more than happy for you to drop the adjective from that sentence. Two very long posts to come soon - one part two of the 'Writers' thing and the other.well, the other is very. Long I'm not sure where it ends up. The work I do.
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dawdle up country: August 2009
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Penninicity; modernisms; lowlands; metronomes; neat touches. Wednesday, 26 August 2009. Last Portrait of Csinszka. Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900. Last Portrait of Csinszka. Itself accomodates multiple epistemological blocs. With disconcerting forthrightness, the painting is segregated into differing, not necessarily antagonistic, planes of mimetic assurance. Although her own attention is plainly directed into the ether, Csinszka is the most worldly point in the composition; the ch...And i...
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Penninicity; modernisms; lowlands; metronomes; neat touches. Saturday, 8 August 2009. So this (understandably) 'minor' academic's account of Britain's supposed ills (the 'scourges.of modern Tory demonology', according to a disappointingly passive John Harris) are based around three points. These are:. 1 - The 'postwar expansion of the state'. Measure during WWII, under a non-more-Conservative PM, this is disingenuous Thatcherism at its worst. There's a lot of unpicking to be done there, isn't there?
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dawdle up country: Applied Departure/ 1
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Penninicity; modernisms; lowlands; metronomes; neat touches. Wednesday, 26 August 2009. Last Portrait of Csinszka. Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900. Last Portrait of Csinszka. Itself accomodates multiple epistemological blocs. With disconcerting forthrightness, the painting is segregated into differing, not necessarily antagonistic, planes of mimetic assurance. Although her own attention is plainly directed into the ether, Csinszka is the most worldly point in the composition; the ch...And i...
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dawdle up country: De-Stalinisation, Broadsheet Style
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Penninicity; modernisms; lowlands; metronomes; neat touches. Wednesday, 26 August 2009. De-Stalinisation, Broadsheet Style. There's a longer post on this topic coming soon - it may well be my first after my permanent return to the UK on Sunday - but here's a teaser. Of the subject matter. I hope I'm not the only one who feels suspicious of the broadsheet columns, representative of a whole subgenre of revisionist history (examples here. Amis's Koba the Dread. He's been wagging his finger, most probably at...
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dawdle up country: October 2008
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Penninicity; modernisms; lowlands; metronomes; neat touches. Thursday, 16 October 2008. There's never that much cause to whinge when the internet lets us watch stuff like the following 24/7. How cool is Phil Lynott? Also, why are all the audience just bumbling around like they were watching Leo Sayer or something? Don't they know how lucky they are? An elegy in lieu of composition. There were around fourteen cases of books in the end. Modern European fiction is great, though, isn't it? Tattooed on their ...
