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December 8, 2023 79 Comments

Spider in car, some agitation. || The periodic table of tools. || Which party is the aggressor? || “Goes in a lady’s handbag… ideal for picnics.” || “Stay proud,” he said. || “Children with liberal parents more likely to suffer from mental health problems.” || A possible explanation for why cyclists are unloved. || Local colour. || Lively scenes. || At last, a solution to truancy. || Model citizen. || Short quiz. || Remembrance, you say. || The progressive retail experience, parts 524, and 525. || The pipe-smoking woman. || Pleasing habitats, a thread. || Transportation issues. || Well, frankly, you’d never tire of this. || The times, they are a-changin’. || Sir, your mental health problems are not her responsibility. || The freshness can’t be faulted. || And finally, with the holidays looming, some festive scenes.

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Art Politics Pronouns Or Else

Maybe It’s The Lighting

December 6, 2023 48 Comments

We have, I fear, been neglecting the arts and their uplifting tendency. Let’s correct that immediately and thereby better ourselves:

Jesse Darling picked up the prestigious art award and its £25,000 cheque at a ceremony in Eastbourne… He has spoken about being inspired by his view of the effects of austerity, Brexit, and the pandemic… and the “hostile environment” immigration policy.

“I wanted to make a work… about Britain for the British public.” 

How kind.

Now feast thine eyes upon it:

I know. You’re positively trembling with aesthetic rapture.

According to the artist, and the Turner Prize judges, what we, the public, need, and indeed deserve, is a seemingly random arrangement of tape, net curtains, and metal crash barriers, thereby conveying “a familiar yet delirious world,” and an allegedly “hostile” immigration policy, while “invoking societal breakdown,” and “unsettling perceived notions of labour, class, Britishness and power.” It’s “bold” and “engaging,” you see. The Telegraph’s art critic, Alastair Sooke, preferred the term “sculpturally compelling.”

And clearly, the stuff of a good day out. Definitely worth the bus fare.

Sharp-eyed readers may notice another possible reason for the artist’s gushing reception among our betters. The artist’s identity, or pretend-identity, being so terribly in right now, and by default deserving.

Update, via the comments:

Regarding that allegedly “hostile” immigration policy, the number of net legal migrants for the past year has been the highest recorded, several times the level of three years ago, and is somewhere around 700,000. This figure is likely to be revised upwards, of course, as with previous years’ figures on immigration.

700,000 is equivalent to the entire population of Sheffield, by the way.

But hey, let’s ignore such minor details and defer instead to our artistic Brahmin, all busy telling us how it is.

We’re told by Katie Razzall, the BBC’s culture editor, that the prize-winning art, or pretend-art, “tackles nationhood and British identity,” and that the offering is “a cut above” the other entries. It is, says the BBC’s arts reporter Ian Youngs, “making a comment on modern British life.”

The chair of the judges, Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, added that his art was “bold,” “engaging,” and partly a reflection on “the state of the nation.” “It’s one element of it, one layer of it… There is some sense, from his point of view, that these are times of crisis.”

Well, it seems to me that if we are in “times of crisis” and civilisational decline – and civilisational dismay – then much of that may be a consequence of the politics and mentality of those who applaud piles of tat as the best that can be done, the peak of human creativity. And who expect the rest of us to pretend along with them.

And because I like to spoil you, here’s another colossal work by the same dysmorphic individual:

What’s wearying is that these things are so numerous and predictable, so uniform, as if the mentally interchangeable peddlers of such things were following the same ideologically acceptable template. The end result being dutifully banal and artless, devoid of any obvious aesthetic, or any discernible skill with tools and materials, and then justified with some equally hackneyed and preposterous political blather.

It is, as they say, all so tiresome.

Oh, it’s a “critique of consumerism,” before you ask.

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Anthropology Free-For-All Pronouns Or Else The Thrill of Friction

Adhesive Not Included

December 4, 2023 63 Comments

Or, Wooing And Titillation, The Transgender Way.

It has to be said that, until today, hot prosthetic pics is a series of words I’ve had little cause to use. But we must, I’m told, make an effort to keep up with The Current Thing, and thereby become engorged with sensitivity and whatnot. And so, from the Reddit forum r/ftm – where ladies who wish to be perceived as men seek out the counsel of their peers – I bring you this:

For straight girls dating trans guys, or cis gender people, would you find it attractive if your man sent you a photo of him hard for you, even though you know it’s not physically his? Like, does the thought that he feels that way for you feel normal or does it feel weird? Like, if I were to send this girl I’m friends with, but hooking up with, a picture of me with my prosthetic visible in underwear, in return to her photos, do you think she would like it?

The photos she sends me are definitely nsfw… So I wanna be able to take sexy photos for her too. I just wanted to know if the fact it’s… a prosthetic would be weird to her if she thought about it or whatever.

In the subsequent comments, affirmation ensues:

I’ve sent a video of me using mine solo (obviously with consent from the receiver) and it’s always gone over well.

Eliza Mondegreen adds, “Peak It’s the thought that counts.”

Previously and related, this dysmorphic being – a “Latinx genderfluid personal trainer” and a “trans 2Spirit DEI consultant,” pronouns “they/he/she” – opted for a “seven-inch in a tan colour.” With additional adhesive.

Best used on a clean, dry surface.

For those who wish to know more, there are, of course, online shopping options. Viewer discretion is advised.

Update, via the comments, on being a parent with a pseudo-penis:

I wear a packer, but I only wear it when my children are at school or asleep.

However, the children, we’re assured, “have seen my adult toys.”

Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.

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Free-For-All The Thrill Of Shopping

Don’t Forget The Gift Wrap

November 28, 2023 104 Comments

With the season of jollity and gift-giving bearing down upon us, like the crop duster in North By Northwest, patrons are reminded that any Amazon UK shopping done via this link, or for Amazon US via this link, or via the buttons in the sidebar, results in a small fee for your host at no extra cost to you. Feel free to shop excitedly and without restraint.

If the urge to give requires more direct expression, there are three buttons below the fold.

Also, open thread.

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Academia Anthropology Politics

Vacancy Announced

November 26, 2023 43 Comments

Attention, dear readers. I bring you a chance to participate in a cosmic drama, to facilitate utopia. A godless heaven here on Earth. Specifically, do you know of any “artists and visionaries,” or people “good at spreadsheets”? Because there may be a job going, come the revolution:

This comrade who is studying to become a teacher says that a revolution is ready to happen in America. She provides a lengthy to-do list for the revolution. On that list is daycare and historians, “who can help us understand what has happened and what's going to happen.” pic.twitter.com/2uRDlq75we

— Inside The Classroom (@EITC_Official) November 26, 2023

I’m guessing the revolutionary catering is already taken care of.

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