Reheated (54)
For newcomers, more items from the archives.
You Look Like You Need Some Art.
In which we thrill to the creative eruptions of Ms Sandrine Schaefer.
The pretence of intellectual heft and critical discernment is quite funny, given the unspoken rules of pretend artists and their pretend art. Like practically all of her fellow hustlers, Ms Schaefer tells us that she “investigates” and “questions” things, and presumably interrogates them; but despite this allegedly relentless curiosity, I doubt that any specific insight or profundity is ever conveyed to her audience, such as it is, via the art, such as it is. And of course, we’re not supposed to notice this, or notice the comical mismatch of arch rhetoric and inept flummery. And so, in order to feign discernment, one has to not discern any number of really obvious things.
Don’t Oppress My People With Your Big Hooped Earrings.
On the woes of radical accessorising at Pitzer College, Claremont, California.
It does, I think, take a particular chutzpah to publicly claim to be oppressed - by other people’s earrings – while spending more than the median household income at a glorified holiday resort.
Woke educators attempt to inculcate dishonesty, bemoan pockets of resistance.
“White fragility” is the unremarkable fact that people by and large don’t like being slandered as racists and then assigned with some pretentious collective guilt, the supposed atonement for which requires deference to actual racists and predatory hokum merchants.
But Not All Feminists, Apparently.
Feminists gather to discuss The Accursed Male and his many, many faults.
“Cis-masculinity is fundamentally oppressive and violent” says Mr Utt. Apparently, a single incident of exasperated table-slamming is damning evidence of patriarchal brainwashing, proof that the author has been “socialised to be abusive,” along with all other men. However, the gender-damning meaning of female table-slamming, or door-slamming, or general fits of irritation, or any number of aggressive and passive-aggressive displays indulged in by women, remain oddly unexplored. Instead, Mr Utt equates this apparently all-pervasive patriarchy with “related systems of oppression like white supremacy.” Adding, “It’s important that I situate myself within my positionality.”
There’s more, should you want it, in the greatest hits.
Also, open thread.
It does, I think, take a particular chutzpah to publicly claim to be oppressed – by other people’s earrings – while spending more than the median household income at a glorified holiday resort.
Missed that one. 🙂
Missed that one. 🙂
She’s so oppressed she’s spending $60,000 a year on a degree in “media studies with a concentration in critical theory.” As downtrodden people do.
And hey, Ms Martinez and Ms Aguilera had to email the entire campus, repeatedly, with their views on hooped earrings and who should be allowed to wear them. That’s “emotional labour,” you know.
I’m still catching up on all the ‘reheated’ stuff.
“It’s important that I situate myself within my positionality.”
Gold.
I’m still catching up on all the ‘reheated’ stuff.
Slacker. You do realise there’s a test at the end of the month…?
Meanwhile, not everything is reheated, in today’s episode of Mining For Outrage, join us for “Don’t Sis Me Bro !”
I see, a word that actually can be traced back to Latin has “roots” in black church and “queer” communities, and only “African Americans” can use it. My sister will be relieved because she never liked being called that, but I expect there to be some rending of garments among the feminist community who use the term. It is also not clear if British African Americans, African African Americans, or Mohammedans of any pigmentation who use the term still get to use the word.
But wait ! That’s not all, for an extra added bonus to solve this mystery…
What a profoundly idiotic and ignorant comment, I guess by using the internet we here are appropriating “black culture” ? I cannot imagine how cushy and boring one’s life must be to have to resort to dreaming up garbage like this for a brief burst of titillation over the Outrageous Outrage™.
Here, everyone, have some bean pie. A nice change from hump fat.
I’m sorry, madam. You’re not allowed to eat your own food on the premises.

But we do have a special today.
Nommy-nommy-nom.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/black-math-prof-discovers-he-made-bad-career-choice-campaigns-to-get-more-blacks-to-make-same-bad-choice/
Don’t Sis Me Bro!
Every time I read this sort of nonsense, I get the feeling that we’re edging (or charging) closer and closer to Fran Porretto’s short story, The Two Doors.
Hump-ble pie, anyone?
David – if you’re still in the mood to update the blogroll, please consider Matt Christiansen’s youtube channel.
Measured, entertaining, and lots of content. So, unlike my Drunken Uncle recommendation, this one won’t give you the vapors. =)
Don’t Sis Me Bro!
Bro? Fucking BRO?? Did you just cis-sis me, bigot?!?
if you’re still in the mood to update the blogroll,
Heh. Mr Christiansen’s channel is one of my YouTube subscriptions. Added to blogroll.
Posted by: Unnonplussed
Dude, you’re baiting me.
I’ll just drop this here” Sargon looks at Wisecrack’s video about how Starship Troopers is fascist (yeah, I know) and dismantles it.
tl;dr; Idiot confuses fascism with militarism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95OQlvEQNRM
Dude, you’re baiting me.
He’s a master.
Idiot confuses fascism with militarism.
I wouldn’t even call the novel militaristic, just guilty of honoring the military.
Dude, you’re baiting me.
He’s a master.
ISWYDT.
On the Starship Troopers video, I think that video posted misses some of the hints and possible deeper stuff going on.
In any case, the best ‘theory’ for that film is that its an in-universe To Hell and Back. Johnny Rico plays himself in a fictionalised story of his life.
He’s a master.
So long as he washed his hands before digging into the pickled “eggs”.
Hey, wait a minute…did you just assume xis gender? Or perhaps just xis anatomy?
“I wouldn’t even call the novel militaristic, just guilty of honoring the military.”
I mean in the movie. Just because people act like they’re in the military doesn’t mean they’re fascist. They’re just very, very efficient.
Idiot confuses fascism with militarism.
I wouldn’t even call the novel militaristic, just guilty of honoring the military.
Ehn, from a skim through the video, I think Sargon’s discussion might be more a review of Verhoeven’s Really Badly Done Bug Show rather than actually being a discussion of Starship Troopers.
Myself, I think that once someone finally makes a movie or miniseries of Starship Troopers, that would be quite interesting.
House of Windsor didn’t vet Meghan half as much as it should have.
Ehn, from a skim through the video, I think Sargon’s discussion might be more a review of Verhoeven’s Really Badly Done Bug Show…
My apologies, I forgot about the movie.
In any case, the best ‘theory’ for that film is that its an in-universe To Hell and Back.
The author of the novel, Heinlein, said that he wrote the novel to honor the infantry, aren’t glamorous like aviators but deserve our respect and gratitude.
…male, pale, and stale…
Darleen, I didn’t know “stale” was a synonym for competent and qualified. It must be a UK thing. Perhaps David could clarify.
I thought Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers was clearly a gleefully savage satire of Fascism and a timely warning about the USA’s trajectory, from a Dutch director who grew up under the Nazi occupation of Holland.
To call the movie an apology for Fascism is like calling Robocop a celebration of privatisation!
I’ve been involved with DOD for 59 years. Born in an Army hospital. “Military” does not necessarily mean “ efficient.” They do try hard, though, and sometimes they really are efficient.
I was a little disgruntled when I tried to pull my horoscope free and found the site (HQ’d in Europe, I believe) didn’t think Fort Knox, KY existed!
I guess I’ll have to stick with the newspaper.
I tried to pull my horoscope free
Pogonip, do they still make those little horoscope books that you could by at the drugstore counter? Some of them were little books and some were scrolls. I used to put them in Christmas Stockings but I haven’t found them for years.
“It’s important that I situate myself within my positionality.”
Where does an ass position himself? Other than by sitting?
Mostly likely on a porcelain throne doing important work bound up in emotional labor…
Steve, I can’t remember the last time I saw those cute little books and scrolls!
Verhoeven could have done his attack on fascism without a**-raping Heinlein’s book. What he did is unforgivable.
Verhoeven could have done his attack on fascism without a**-raping Heinlein’s book. What he did is unforgivable.
Ah yes.
Dune, by Frank Herbert.
vs
David Lynch’s Flying Worms In SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!!!!!!! by Dino De Laurentiis.
Coincidentally, the Starship Troopers movie is on TV here in Australia this very night. And the Australian multicultural channel has been doing a season of “so bad they are facinating” movies over the last few weeks. Tonight it’s Masters of the Universe, and a couple of weeks ago it was Battlefield Earth.
Why are science fiction movies over represented in the population of the monumentally bad? Indeed are there any truly great science fiction movies? Only the Ridley Scott Harrison Ford Blade Runner comes to mind, but I may be narrow in my view.
Verhoeven’s script was written before he bought the rights to use the title “Starship Troopers”. He absolutely detested Heinlein so delighted in his abortion of a movie.
Why are science fiction movies over represented in the population of the monumentally bad?
I think partly because anything approaching special effects was so primitive. It’s hard to suspend disbelief when you spot the zipper running down the monster’s back.
There are some effective and good sci-fi films – from serious to comedy
My faves include (short list):
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Forbidden Planet
20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Planet of the Apes (original)
Empire Strikes Back
ET
Andromeda Strain (original)
War of the Worlds (1953)
Arrival
Back to the Future
Why are science fiction movies over represented in the population of the monumentally bad?
They aren’t—Or at least my impression is more a matter of visibility. Consider, by contrast, just how many movies have been cranked out over the decades, and not everything is Lawrence Of Arabia . . . .
Indeed are there any truly great science fiction movies?
Going for what I’ve noted as an SF noir trilogy, Alien, Outland, and yes, Blade Runner.
And certainly adding in Aliens and Alien 3
—Oh, yes, I know of immense moaning and wringing of hands over the latter, simply because it’s not its predecessors. Well, of course it’s not.
Alien is Ten Little Indians in a haunted house.
Aliens is a classic war movie.
Alien 3 is about death, and being an adult—as in You are going to die . . . . now are you going to die standing up, or will you die on your knees?
And continuing . . . The Terminator. I’ll throw in Star Wars just from the impact of reminding that it’s ok to have have a little dirt and dust in front of the camera . . . .
Indeed are there any truly great science fiction movies? Only the Ridley Scott Harrison Ford Blade Runner comes to mind, but I may be narrow in my view.
If you are talking “awesome”, there is also 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien. For merely “really good” you could add Aliens, Metropolis, Terminator, Total Recall, Ex Machina and many others. I’d include Solaris but David would cut off my drinks as he did last time.
. . . I’d include Solaris . . .
. . . . . . . Um . . . Sol . . . Solaris . . . Ah, Yes!, Solaris!!!
Here you are.
As David keep stating when he shows a movie, Yes, I know, I’m spoiling you, It’s a luminescent work. Powerful and magnetic.
If nothing else, the next time that David does a performance art piece, you now have something to reply with . . . !
Oh.
—Was just staring at the shelves.
Rollerball.
Another thought, and hopefully back to configuring someone’s Python obscurity.
Echoing on 2001and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and all of the original Apes movies.
All of the Mad Maxes.
Going over to TV, The Prisoner.
Be seeing you.
I’d include Solaris but David would cut off my drinks as he did last time.
[ From the kitchen, muttered epithets can be heard. ]
Here you are.
As I said a while ago,
[ Heads back to kitchen. Door slams. ]
Suggested edit: The more recent Soderbergh version is better, in that things actually happen, and is in some respects closer to the novel and it has Natascha McElhone sans kit, so woo-hoo!
I like the music too…
I like the music too…
Yes, the score, by Cliff Martinez, is agreeable, in a minimalist sort of way. I like the scene – I think it’s Kelvin’s first sleep on the station – where we see Solaris doing something as Kelvin dreams – lots of luminous connections being made, not unlike neurons.
Meanwhile…
Facial recognition software is better at determining the actual sex of people than SJWs, nevertheless, it is, of course, transphobic.
In entertainment news, the outrage du jour, we find that The Duke was not Woke™. To compound this nitwit’s agony, The Duke also took a shot at socialism.
A 1971 interview, we are getting into some serious outrage mining.
In entertainment news, the outrage du jour, we find that The Duke was not Woke™.
Or, “Man born in 1907, and who died 40 years ago, held views no longer considered fashionable or polite.”
The left believes in science, though they seem to be struggling with biology.
though they seem to be struggling with biology.
The word woman is doing some heavy lifting there.
Also biologically, and female, and her.