One of the most insistent refrains of the No side during the referendum was the claim that nationalist politics is inherently about “putting up barriers.” In part, this was an example of how the No campaign simply relied upon the capitalist fantasy of economic wealth being created through pure, uninterrupted flows (of cash, goods and…
Month: February 2015
Why I Don’t Buy The National
Some preliminaries… Firstly, because I have only a critical, highly-politicised interest in the staging of consumer enjoyment, I have always considered the concept of the spoiler alert to belong to bourgeois interests. However, I do try to be a nice person and I try to present militancy as something which is fun, rather than just irritating;…
Financing the Image of a Post-Capitalist Media
If you switch on television it’s just ridiculous and its destructive. It kills us. And talk shows will kill us. They kill our language. So we have to declare holy war against what we see every single day on television… I think there should be real war against commercials, real war against talk shows, real war against “Bonanza” and “Rawhide”, or all these things.…
I Know What You’ll Do This Summer
Despite its almost two and a half hours running time, Béla Tarr’s 2011 film, The Turin Horse, is composed of only 30, extremely lengthy, shots. It details the extremely mundane and repetitive life of a peasant farmer and his adult daughter at the end of the 19th century. Underlining just how repetitive and empty this…