what is maximalism?

by jebni on November 30, 2003

It’s not minimalism. Any other ideas?

who rides the wrecking ball into our guitars?

by jebni on November 27, 2003

For the people of Miami: Someone always playing corporation games Who cares, they’re always changing corporation names We just want to dance here / Someone stole the stage They call us irresponsible, write us off the page Marconi plays the (…)

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from the vaults

by jebni on November 24, 2003

We’re getting new carpet laid, and so I’m throwing a lot of old shit out so they can move the furniture. Naturally that means, uh, not throwing shit out once I find how fascinating it is. For instance, under the (…)

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2.0

by jebni on November 24, 2003

Soon I will go out into the desert and rethink everything.

the bitter fruit of the tree of knowledge

by jebni on November 23, 2003

Am I the only person who likes Eve in Season 5 of Angel? Anyway, I love shake-ups and format changes in genre shows; the shift to dodgy war melodrama in Deep Space Nine, the retroactive continuity of Dawn’s introduction in (…)

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on having no definitive personality

by jebni on November 23, 2003

I’ve found that I positively cannot use social software like Friendster, because when I have to fill out a profile of myself — listing my favourite X, Y and Z — nothing comes out. You all know I’ve got incredibly (…)

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aw, my first photos

by jebni on November 21, 2003

        

talk to my body

by jebni on November 21, 2003

Shane is right about “panty-raiders” as the proto-revolutionary cadre. This is exactly what happened in France, too — dormitory curfews at Nanterre sparked May ’68. Now this has always been the crux of my beef with neo-Leninist approaches to cadre-building, (…)

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new appendages: farewell to the flesh

by jebni on November 20, 2003

Here’s where I admit my bizarre spiral into consumer electronics addiction. My new iPod never leaves my person, and neither does my Sony Z1 camera. A commodity appears at first sight, a very trivial thing and easily understood. It’s analysis (…)

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in the city

by jebni on November 19, 2003

Via Anne Galloway: the Urban Tapestries project. Years and years ago, I was daydreaming about running community cultural development projects involving young migrant people’s hypertextual annotations of urban space, perhaps on the web or CD-ROM. But Urban Tapestries takes it (…)

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