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shadowpuppetmaster | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 09 2008 | the, of, researchi dotted this classic interview with Virilio because he has been concerned with the phenomenon of "Newshounds" for some time, and in specific with the decisive importance of the circulation of images for modern warfare, domestic and foreign.
I bring this up because it reminds me of Nealist's recent dot about how New York has decided to implement this system of "newshounding" on a mass level, and under the explicit pretenses of a civilian-led effort to amplify urban policing.
anyway, here's a snippet of the interview discussing this (and many other things, as always) -
"But let us link all this to something that is not discussed very often. I am referring here to the impact of the launch of the television news service CNN in 1984 or thereabouts. However, what I want to draw your attention to is CNN's so-called 'Newshounds'. Newshounds are people with mini-video cameras, people who are continually taking pictures in the street and sending the tapes in to CNN. These Newshounds are a sort of pack of wolves, continually looking for quarry, but quarry in the form of images. For example, it was this pack of wolves that sparked off the Rodney King affair a few years ago in Los Angeles. Let us consider the situation: a person videos Rodney King being beaten up by the cops. That person then sends in the footage to the TV station. Within hours riots flare up in the city! There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN and the Pentagon. But what interests me here is that what starts out as a story of a black man being beaten up in the street, a story that, unfortunately, happens all the time, everywhere, escalates into something that is little short of a war in Los Angeles!"
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Quoted: Amazon.com: The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) (9780801866463): Rachel P. Maines: Books
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click to play"take my hand with your glove of love"
Quoted: Van covers Kirk Van Houten's haunting love song to Lou Anne
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apropos.
- shadowpuppetmaster | Shared With: Everyone - 16 hours ago | the, of, and
"The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (better known as the Wolfenden report, after Lord Wolfenden, the chairman of the committee) was published in Britain on 4 September 1957 after a succession of well-known men, including Peter Wildeblood, were convicted of homosexual offences.
[...] Disregarding the conventional ideas of the day, the committee recommended that "homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private should no longer be a criminal offence". All but James Adair were in favour of this and, contrary to some medical and psychiatric witnesses' evidence at that time, found that "homosexuality cannot legitimately be regarded as a disease, because in many cases it is the only symptom and is compatible with full mental health in other respects." - shadowpuppetmaster | Shared With: Everyone - 16 hours ago | the, in, of
looks like a good film.
"Victim became a highly sociologically significant film; many believe it played an influential role in liberalizing attitudes (as well as British law) regarding homosexuality"
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Quoted: AFDBs are stylish and comfortable.
- shadowpuppetmaster | Shared With: Everyone - 19 hours ago | the, in, and
wanna see this
Quoted: Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read not write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison, he is given a number of “missions” to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader’s confidence in the process. But Malik is brave and a fast learner, daring to secretly develop his own plans.
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even with Herzog behind it, i'm skeptical about any attempt to remake Bad Lieutenant. the original is so classic.
Quoted: trialer = Werner Herzog’s new film BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS,
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quoted: Engineer Carl Morgan’s son complained that a certain hill was too hard to climb on his bicycle. Could his dad invent a machine to help him power over these inclines? The answer came in “Joules”, an electrically-powered robot that rides in the back seat of a tandem bicycle:
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Quoted: After centuries of chronic unemployment, millions of small children across the United Kingdom saw their lives drastically improve when the Industrial Revolution at long last provided them with steady factory work regardless of age, size, or experience.
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