Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To consider a stupid rewrite of a recent batshit article on the environment by Jordan ‘Professor Kermitballs’ Peterson. It espouses the view that ‘Corporations and utopians are offering authoritarian solutions to crises only democracy and free markets can solve’. Whatever the fuck that means. Look, let’s be honest people the problems with Jordan’s right … Read more
RND/ To consider some conceptual art for the Jubilee. Yet the real reason why we continue not simply to tolerate her but, in many misguided instances, to worship her, is because of atavistic attitudes of our own, which we find it hard to abandon. – Will Self, Queen Mother profile (Independent) Featuring an (all things … Read more
RND/ Dear The Guardian. Go fuck yourselves (again.) A response to your post, “It’s time to re-learn how to have fun“: Q: What makes you depressed? A: Seeing stupid people happy. – Slavoj Zizek 2580 x 1587 .jpg – via Getty images This particular brand of synthetic, corporate ‘Fun’TM that appeals to, and is only … Read more
RND/ To consider a terse report on the (/somewhat darkly fascinating?) experience of receiving the Covid 19 vaccine in the good old UK: Apart from the obligatory standard letter everyone got about Covid and ‘staying safe’, I’ve heard diddly Jack Squat from Dr. Johnson The Doom Buffoon and his gang of smirking Tory weasels. So … Read more
RND/ To consider two conceptually linked virtual ‘Lockdown Art’ paintings: Ideal / Idealized cost for concepts such as these: £4M – enough to leave backwater island UKania forever and never look back upon a stagnant culture; contact Robert What today for details — Example Reference Links New Statesmen: Why we need to go beyond “incompetence” … Read more