Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Transformers Vs Mobile Suit Gundam
Walked past a poster of Transformer 2: Revenge of the Fallen yesterday and was struck at the resemblance with the Mobile Suit Gundam design(s). I think Gundam came first, In any case, it's an interesting instance of cross-cultural circulation.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Locus Solus
Neuroses for the dead
avowed to be
null and a void
allowed to be divided
into ten thousand days
won't last too long
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Like the first whisper of a rising wind
Yoshitoshi, Eimei nijûhasshûku (Twenty-eight famous murders with verse), 1867
Thatched Cottages at Cordeville
Vincent Van Gogh: Thatched Cottages at Cordeville, 1890.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Pacman and consumerism
“Jesus: Pacman was about consumerism. It was all about seeing how much you could consume before you died. Your whole life is spent eating yellow dots – consuming products – while trying to avoid the reality of of your own death.
Elvis: Do what?
Jesus: That was what the ghosts represented. Mortality. They were always coming to get you, and the Pacman's whole existence was based on avoiding them while devouring as much crap as he could fit his mouth around. But there was death, always around the corner, and no matter how much you consumed, they always got you in the end. You never noticed that?”
Captain Smack, This Is Your Captain Speaking
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Cultural revolution or mass hysteria?
“But beyond the very legitimate concerns about the quality of American beef, I think there is also something more going on here, at least for the university students.
I get the sense that young people are bored, bored with pop culture, bored with plastic surgery, bored with consumerism and the fetishization of luxury goods.
They are also angry that they have spent their entire lives studying, only to leave university and enter a jobless future. Korea was convulsed by political revolution in the 1980s, but never really went through an equivalent cultural revolution.The protests are about mad cow disease today, but social movements have a way of accumulating new meanings and directions over time. Who could have predicted that opening the Korean market to U.S. beef would have sparked such massive protests. And who knows where this thing will end up. That’s the exciting thing about history.”
John Eperjesi (Kyung Hee University), “Candlelight Vigils, Food Sovereignty for Healthier Future”
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“This situation would not be so confusing if the diplomats, journalists and other foreign residents who know Korea did their jobs properly. But either they don’t understand the dynamic themselves or out of love for Koreans they moderate their language. Thus the foreign press, for example, refers to “anger against resumed beef imports,” rather than public hysteria, which is what it really is. Believe me. As a European, I know hysteria when I see it. We murdered 200,000 people as witches in the 15th century and 6 million Jews, and large numbers of Gypsies and homosexuals, in the 20th, for reasons that we don’t know.”
Mike Breen, “Mad Cow Hysteria”
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