tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post8245858130443965158..comments2024-03-22T21:02:55.051+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: Haiti, in 3DGiovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-74584045355076609982010-01-31T13:10:15.200+13:002010-01-31T13:10:15.200+13:00Lazarus Voodoo, buried under blocks, pushed upward...Lazarus Voodoo, buried under blocks, pushed upward: the stone gave way above his palms. He sprang backward into the light, out of the pit, into the <i>place</i>, into the arms of Mary and Martha and Yeshua. <br /><br />He never told what it was like down there. After a while, this didn't matter; there were enough stories of that kind anyway, the dark, the heat.Megan Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03584562106579704547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-16633746604454836352010-01-27T13:28:33.339+13:002010-01-27T13:28:33.339+13:00For many people, Avatar seems to have provided a c...<i>For many people, Avatar seems to have provided a comforting fantasy world to retreat to, one where geo-political and imperial dramas are played out in synthetic environments, where invaders can be repelled in an afternoon and corruption and self-interest readily identified. It's not surprising that its adherents don't want to hear noise from outside the immersive bubble it hopes to Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-81945175194506134622010-01-27T03:47:33.080+13:002010-01-27T03:47:33.080+13:00This is superb - one of the most thought-provoking...This is superb - one of the most thought-provoking pieces I've read on either Haiti or Avatar. If I was standing in Port au Prince slowing down the delivery of aid in order to make people think about the historical backdrop to the disaster, then it would be fair to say that it was neither the time nor the place for such intervention. But those who can only get out of the way and observe/Dan Northhttp://drnorth.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-55455732807347783782010-01-20T18:15:49.169+13:002010-01-20T18:15:49.169+13:00@llew
Come to think of it though, no-one mentioned...<b>@llew</b><br /><i>Come to think of it though, no-one mentioned "message" and Star Wars in the same sentence.</i><br /><br />Hostility to the message goes all the way back of course, even further than <a href="" rel="nofollow">Jack Warner</a>, but <i>Star Wars</i> is an interesting example, as well as the film that supposedly elevated B movies to the status of not only legitimate but Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-56223701674850418832010-01-20T18:05:07.498+13:002010-01-20T18:05:07.498+13:00Thank you Qlipoth. Between Edmund and yourself, yo...Thank you Qlipoth. Between Edmund and yourself, you’ve more or less written my next post, I’ll have to get up on the table and do some tap next week. <br /><br /><i>it's not just that Murdoch personally favours imperialism; he is dispensable, any shareholders including other ltd companies would be the same.</i><br /><br />Certainly, and is there another art in which the means of production Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-68834159476397703512010-01-20T16:48:39.630+13:002010-01-20T16:48:39.630+13:00that's a great post
this point
"It'...that's a great post<br /><br />this point<br /><br />"It's just a case of beliefs being appropriated, not on their own terms, but as yet more raw material for the culture industry. "<br /><br />is really important, because it's not just that Murdoch personally favours imperialism; he is dispensable, any shareholders including other ltd companies would be the same. The actualQlipothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17343878659776948134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-77350464511567079492010-01-20T15:00:41.904+13:002010-01-20T15:00:41.904+13:00Edmund has posted a couple of comments chez Facebo...Edmund has posted a couple of comments chez Facebook, and I'm reposting them here with his kind permimssion - they might come in handy next week when I hopefully get to write about Avatar itself.<br /><br />"I've just started reading Patrick Evans's enjoyably curmudgeonly "The Long Forgetting." "Avatar" seems to be the reductio ad absurdum of what Evans calls Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-3221703371110836862010-01-19T22:43:47.496+13:002010-01-19T22:43:47.496+13:00That's awesome giovanni. Haven't seen Avat...That's awesome giovanni. Haven't seen Avatar yet, but I am looking forward to it & everyone (critics, yadda yadda) said the same things (script, story, aliens etc etc) about Star Wars.<br /><br />Come to think of it though, no-one mentioned "message" and Star Wars in the same sentence.llewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06561709142491895984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-86492527494859031542010-01-19T21:22:21.147+13:002010-01-19T21:22:21.147+13:00(I am not as confident that anything has changed w...(I am not as confident that anything has changed when it comes to discussing colonialism and assorted foreign adventures and interventions - that might simply never have been possible. It certainly wasn't back home twenty years ago when the subject of Somalia came up in the way that it did.)Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-61353031840929570142010-01-19T18:23:39.344+13:002010-01-19T18:23:39.344+13:00"There's a time and a place", but th...<i>"There's a time and a place", but those times and places seem few and far between.</i><br /><br />New Zealanders aren't a very argumentative lot, to my occasional frustration, but I think it goes more broadly than that, and not just here. It may be part of the backlash against feminism, cultural criticism and the Left in general, but it seems that we (bold brush stroke, I Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-28835853813543350992010-01-19T10:57:16.801+13:002010-01-19T10:57:16.801+13:00Last night I saw a friend of mine and mentioned th...Last night I saw a friend of mine and mentioned that Hannah and I had a good time at Orana Park over the holidays. "I don't believe in zoos" she said, and went on to explain -- she's a vegan and an animal rights supporter, yadda yadda. I confess I felt slightly miffed at having the fun sucked out of my story, especially since I only brought it up as part of "what did you dostephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04486889878636801969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-86058051840516342542010-01-19T09:19:54.182+13:002010-01-19T09:19:54.182+13:00Wow. Thank you.Wow. Thank you.Samuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12633616551506978330noreply@blogger.com