Wednesday, November 30, 2022
selling their culture
Like many postcolonial people, the Na’vi now support themselves by selling a version of their culture to outsiders. --‘Avatar’ and the Mystery of the Vanishing Blockbuster
довольно интересная статья, в частности объясняет, как работает franchise и показывает разницу между prequel, reboot и spinoff.
Today it has been thoroughly demonstrated that superhero and fantasy movies are the best forms of intellectual property for the endless reiteration necessitated by the franchise model.там же сравнение нескольких franchise. забавно описаны попытки сотворить пандорскую еду для ресторяна в парке развлечений:
This prompt was made even more challenging by a mandate that the food appear alien, while also looking and tasting familiar — or, in the words of one Imagineer, “like chicken” — enough to satisfy the average Disney visitor.Imagineer - wow! и далее еда и напитки в Satu’li Canteen забавно описаны. и многое другое:
Waiting, by that point, seemed more entertaining than spending the rest of my evening in the park. As it turns out, a 3-D simulacrum of a 3-D movie kind of cancels itself out.у автора определенно неплохо с чувством юмора.
Divorced from the dazzle of visual effects, I could see the aesthetic universe of “Avatar” for what it was: a glorified World Market sale section. The Na’vi alone were just a tiki-bar mishmash of traits that white people perceive as foreign: dreadlocks, beadwork, body mods, loincloths, feathers, cowrie shells. Compared with that of Hogwarts or Tatooine, the logic of their world seemed to lack imagination: What were the odds that, galaxies away, a society not only had two genders, but those genders were “male” and “female” — and the females were stacked?феноменальная статья:
Here is probably a good place to disclose that when I first started working on this article, I had never seen “Avatar.” The film came out my senior year of high school, when I was still committed to the thought that nothing popular could ever be good. (I have spent my life revising and re-revising this position.)и политика, и экономика - там все есть. и даже философия. комментарии тоже интересные. хорощо бы перевести, но текст слишком сложный для меня во многих отношениях.
похоже, автор - Jamie Lauren Keiles - nonbinary: I use they/them pronouns.
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
события и размышления
. Jewish Allies Call Trump’s Dinner With Antisemites a Breaking Point
. Antisemitism’s March Into the Mainstream
. Republicans Hate Everything About Trump’s Dinner With Ye and Fuentes Except Trump
. Фундаментальная разница - это про нашего старого друга Jami Shea, см. также Russian lies
ну и заодно ‘No Cooperation’: How Sam Bankman-Fried Tried to Cling to FTX - похоже, MSM сливает гражданина Бэнкман-Фрида
Love Children Unconditionally
Can We Really Love Our Children Unconditionally?
It was foolish to think that taking up the piano at the same time as my own children would be emotionally uncomplicated. Or perhaps the complication was exactly why I sought it out. Freud called it “repetition compulsion.” While claiming we want a drama-free life, we instead end up hunting down our most torturous patterns over and over, like heat-seeking missiles.это заставляет вспомнить Ницше про typical experience. еще там про Англию познавательно:
She was American by birth, and after marrying my university professor father and moving to London, she spent a decade working to be accepted into the snippy, fraught world of British intellectual society. This was a culture full of invisible class-markers, of snubs and tripwires and baited traps.ну и Фромма она вспоминает к месту.
Monday, November 28, 2022
battle for the future of civilization
Whatever your criticism of @elonmusk you have to admit that the guy doesn’t play it safe. He takes stands in front of the hardest challenges and takes them head on. Risky? Yes. But no success comes without risk. @Ian Miles CheongThis is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead. @Elon Musk
racism concerns
WHO renames monkeypox over racism concerns
The WHO has renamed monkey pox to Mpox due to racism concerns.did monkeys complain?They clearly have racist thoughts because none of us interpret that to be racist other than them.
Sunday, November 27, 2022
Goldberg & Biber
чудесную музыку передают по Sirius: Trio Sonata No. 4 in C Major by Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, а потом - Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Partita No. 7, C Minor. 1644 господибожемой
и еще потом BWV 1017
Виндман недоволен
Kinda weird that @elonmusk gets to decide how like a half-billion people communicate. Way too much power for one erratic individual to wield, don’t you think? @Alexander S. Vindman17.3К replies, 51.5K likes
Хрущев и строители
красивое
см. также Мы идём в новую жизнь
Saturday, November 26, 2022
Ахматова сегодня
АХМАТОВА СЕГОДНЯ - трогательная дискуссия о поэзии и не только у Konstantin Sonin 
"Мир ему существует назло." - вот она, истинная теодицея! --впс
элегия Массне
Элегия (Массне) - Wiki
трогательно, чего уж. где-то у меня был диск под названием Reveries, надо поискать. Eiji Oue (Conductor) - этот? или скорее этот, Sylvia McNair: Reveries - Melodies Francaises? по-моему Sylvia McNair. точно она. там, правда, Массне нету. но есть Мессиан
Friday, November 25, 2022
волки и паразиты
“Wolves infected with a parasite that commonly infects cats were 46 times more likely to become pack leaders and 11 times more likely to start a new pack…там же несколько интересных дополнений. one of the replies:“The parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, makes its hosts bold — a mechanism that increases its survival.”
Is there anything NOT purported to be explained by Toxoplasma? Didn't one researcher suggest it was responsible for majority of motorcycle crashes?и по-русски Альфа-самцы с паразитами в мозгу
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
как ложила - так и кладет
Учительнице русского языка наплевать, звонит или звóнит её бывший: она как ложила - так и кладет на его звонки. --народ
про возраст
В каждом возрасте у человека своё отношение к новому году:Про мой возрастДетство: Скорее бы новый год!!!
Зрелость: Скоро новый год.
Старость: Опять новый год?..
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
кого разоблачает Пелевин
На самом деле писатель маскирует за очередными псевдофилософскими, эзотерическими умствованиями одну очень понятную и точную мысль: наш мир сегодня переполнен шарлатанством. --Расчет или прозрение: кого разоблачает Пелевинк 60-летию старик удостоился статьи аж в ria.ru. кого разоблачает Пелевин - почти что с кем вы, мастера культуры или как там было
Monday, November 21, 2022
three quotes
Jewish Leaders Condemn ‘Antisemitic’ New York Times Article for ‘Whitewashing’ a ‘Pogrom’ - three scare quotes in one header, wow
Три карты знать, и я богат!
Sunday, November 20, 2022
on Gray Lady
If there was anything Trump was right about it was about the “formerly brilliant” NYT becoming “fake news.” The coverage of certain topics is so blatantly one-sided but they continue to masquerade as being fair and unprejudiced. Also yeah it is boring to read. Dry lies. @Ian Miles Cheong
it's a reply to this
ну и на память - мадам Иоффе высказалась про вот это все: Hi Dinesh, how many of your relatives were killed in the Holocaust?
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