tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174466.post7494562470305200312..comments2024-03-18T00:58:29.816-07:00Comments on Qlipoth: There Should Probably Be "How To Write About The Ghetto" TooQlipothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17343878659776948134noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174466.post-63511671099764661482010-08-14T09:40:20.095-07:002010-08-14T09:40:20.095-07:00http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/08/04/magazi...http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/08/04/magazine/20100815-dump.html<br /><br />arpege, did you see this? Tragic in the same sense as the old stories of looking for bits of gold in Zaire from the 90s, but also eerie--somewhere in between your post on Braddock and this, but neither exactly. Mike Post wrote about the LA company town Vernon (corrupt and run by a tiny Italian population of less than 200, I've been through it numerous times on the Blue Line, it's a strange land out there), and day workers cracking open computers to destroy the hard drives from which people can blackmail, etc., and this is the second time I've heard of such things with the hardware being worked. Eeriest are the images that look like some Soho or Chelsea sculptor would have done them, with the terminals used for seats or chairlike objects, and that last one (I believe) with a keyboard stuck in the dirt. Landscape looks thoroughly toxic, Road Warrior/Blade Runner look to it. Disturbing stuff, esp. photos like the 'livestock' and taking a nap ones. It's not atypical 'poverty/desperation' scene except for the strange dichotomy with the 'buzzing, whirring internet' that is at the other end. They see only the raw materials of the machines.patrick j. mullinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15909152556240137915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174466.post-30120379757035157632010-08-07T22:17:18.767-07:002010-08-07T22:17:18.767-07:00Isn't this like Zizek talking about Chavez bei...Isn't this like Zizek talking about Chavez being a buffoon, or is it like Arpege talking about Zizek talking about Chavez being a buffoon, while it's unsure until recently who really champions Chavez of these two luminaries. <br /><br />Whut goes aroun' comes aroun'.patrick j. mullinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15909152556240137915noreply@blogger.com