>>4242 has dramatically failed but the people are innocent" journalist out there.
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Haha Alex, do you relate with "La possibilité
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>>4244 d'une Ïle"'s display of midlife crisis? This was cut in 5 posts, Jesus Christ this site isn't getting better.
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>>4244 The only works of Houellebecq's that I've read and re-read are the first three or four. By "Possibility of an Island" I'd pretty much lost interest. And I half-agree with you about this article. I'd prefer it if he hadn't put part of the blame for what was done by these barbarians in Paris on "criminal actions" by the US and various European allies. Personally, I lean to the Christopher Hitchens line that if we don't go and get these people they are going to come and get us sooner or later, so better confront them in the deserts of Syria than on the streets of London and Paris. I think it's an unappealing delusion of liberal Americans that they and other "imperialist" powers are "responsible" for resurgent psychopathic Islam. Houellebecq, sadly, seems to share this delusion with respect to France. Charlie Hebdo shoud have taught him better. That massacre - which, admittedly, seems a "bagatelle" next to this one - was not provoked by a military intervention. It was provoked by cartoons and by Europe's omitting to observe Islamic laws on blasphemy. The story that it WAS somehow a response to Western imperialism and interventionism was thought up AFTERWARD, by the liberal left and eagerly seized on by Muslims
But it's the Jewish woman the BBC journalist insults who sees clearly here. Like Hitler in the 30s, Islamic fundamentalist jihadism is NOT going to leave us in peace if we leave it in peace. At least I fear it isn't. So I wonder whether that one, at least, of the "crimes" that Houellebecq accuses his government of is not a false accusation. He's certainly right about the "moral left" and the crazy idea that we don't need borders, though.
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>>4246 it's stupid to dismiss that as a "delusion" here's some arguments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10651504
>>4207 It is 'like in the movie', but it has the perspective that it does because it is narrated by Humbert, and there are certain parts of the novel that do be -tray him.
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I saw this post on leddit, anyone read the book it mentions? Or plans to read. Once photography became accessible we saw a huge shift in art away from photo-realism towards interpretation, abstraction, and non-objectivity. Photography is basically what drove trends in art away from photo-realism.
Similar trends in music, in response to widespread availability of recorded music. Classical music practically died out in the mid 20th century, replaced by avante guard abstract anti-music, designed to be off-putting and impossible to enjoy.
Same in literature when education became universal and popular writing became a mass industry: modernism drove a new level of deliberate obscurity and "difficulty" in novels and poetry.
See 'The Intellectuals and the Masses' by John Carey.
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>>4218 I've not read that book, but I'd consider the "shift" in art to be distinct from that of classical music. I do totally dig the idea that photography interrupted the European painting focus on realism and perspective. Cubism does seem like it's deliberately trying to analyse objects from every perspective at once, which the camera could never do.
Have you read Walter Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction "? It's quite popular and deals with that sort of set of ideas.
But the crisis of tonality in music happened before recording became possible, and I don't believe the claim that it's deliberately obscure or difficult to enjoy.
As for literature, the 'novel' was always a cross-cultural threat, allowing the lower middle classes to read about the scandals of the upper classes. Post-modern literature doesn't seem to be a reaction against allowing that directional transfer as much as it is a reaction against the directionality itself.
What do you keep going on about the lighting for. I don't see anything strange about the lighting at all. I'm not saying it's definitely her but I feel like you're trying to find reasons that aren't there.
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Happy Birthday fake Cracky.
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This is your life you fucking freaks: This is a documentary I saw years ago about some autistic mentally-deranged freaks that are obsessive about a girl. I instantly thought of the Crackyverse and those like them.
I can't help but feel Cracky probably relates to this and there's at least a few of you that are autistic or have some mental disorder. Here's your life, 71.
What is her current Tumblr, if someone doesnt mind posting it? I stopped following a while back when her intersectional feminism started to look awfully like fetishization.
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i could have sworn she deleted her tumblr. shes back again? neat i guess.
