streamable!

the forum and the blog for the p2p event in madrid next week. i'm almost ready, leaving on sunday.

n3rdc0R3 4 l1ph3!!!
more nerdcore than you.

while looking for a reference for 'disco marxism' i stumbled across this post. disco marxism gets a mention elsewhere on that awesome blog but i'm linking to that post because it talks to some kind of theme i've been thinking about for a while about being 'inside' vs. 'outside' academic institutions, what it means to actually have an academic job, and what it is academics are supposed to write about and for whom. i'm not saying anything about it at the moment, other than that i'm interested in it because it has both personal and professional ramifications, some of which i've touched on/moaned about here before with varying levels of awkwardness. i'm on 'the inside' now but almost as soon as i got 'in' i realised there are wheels within wheels, my position is itself positioned in relation to structures and substructures within this university and outside of it. of course, a job is a job, and quite likely to students and others, the inside is, in fact, inside (even if it feels ... funny). academic widget production is pretty wild but it sure beats the 'destitution' kpunk apparently advocates as a measure of scholarly quality:

The postmodern academic, complicit with the system that immiserates them, reflexively impotent, is required to oscilate between being Troll and Grey Vampire, between hyper-critical scholarliness and convivial sociality, kept locked into the system by just the right level of prestige and self-loathing. That's why most of the interesting work done in institutions is achieved by people who have infiltrated the academy after periods of (intellectual and subjective) destitution.

anyway. here's a picture of my office:

tvg hates tvg: the house that sandpaper built
mystification: show me how (tvg hates tvg remix)




on a new black hoe sublabel called golden age. it says:

TVG Hates TVG (Pinecone Moonshine, Black Hoe, SyncoPathic) brings us the debut release on Golden Age. "The House That Sandpaper Built" showcases his style nicely with afflicted atmospherics and clever drum sequencing lead this track down a dark and nightmarish tunnel. The flipside, "Show Me How To Cry Remix" takes the Black Hoe Alimony original by Hungary's Mystification and deconstructs it until it's only faintly recognizable - completely reworked from the ground up. This upfront remix is sure to amaze, whether you know the original or are entirely new to our signature sound. With this release it seems inevitable that Golden Age will continue to do big things.

the post-corporate university.

bombah: the original rudegyal murda sound (2009)

on more recordings netlabel:

After a long hiatus More Recordings comes back, and they’re taking no motherfucking prisoners as they drop the one like the Bombah’s new joint, “The Original Rudegyal Murda Sound”! Five tracks of serious other level Ragga Jungle flavors from outerspace and the underworld. Rolling with the mighty Vinyl Pushas Sound System, she rocks the production tip like a true rudegyal, bringing all sorts of gangster ragga jungle tracks for the space cruisers. Awesome to see More Recordings back online and coming with such a nice one-two-three-four-five punch package like this! Especially wicked to hear her workout with the japanese dancehall business on the tune “Faia”.

Don’t mess around. Just cop this one.

Bombah - “The Original Rudegyal Murda Sound”
01 - Bombah - Lady In The Studio
02 - Bombah - Mash It Up
03 - Bombah - Dancehall Queen
04 - Bombah - Faia
05 - Bombah - Gunshot

jammie thomas-rasset: riaa 'embarrassed'.

socioblogopia. a very cool idea from wicked anomie.

capslock: amniocentesis

new on united elements of hate.

i'm there.

they also have some audio up from previous events.

jammie thomas retrial begins today.

tehran. the opposition.

punk rock is bad for you, and bad for society

and if you don't believe quincy, here is more evidence, from 1983:

Kembla

Darkbrowed shadows! lo, they travel down the faded depths of light
Where the evening like a bride, lies blushing in the arms of night!
Now the mellow west is changing, and a flush of rosey red
Deepens in the silent heavens, over Kembla’s topmost head;
See! beyond the gnarly brushwood, cragging up in gleamy crowds,
All the hills of Bulli shimmer, like a heap of verdant clouds;
Glowing with a league of sunset lying, like a gilded pall,
Where the pines, like blackbirds, nestle in the cliffs of Corrimal.

Beaming westward, with a sinking splendour shining on its way,
Lo! a lonely planet loiters on the footsteps of the day;
Glancing backwards, as it drops behind a waste of forest-land,
Where we sit, my friends and brothers, by the hollow ocean-strand!
Kembla waxeth grand and gloomy, and the wildwood echoes ring
Sadly down the haggard gorges, like a wailing on the wing;
Flying past the windy caverns, where the crawling sea-waves roam
Hissing as they drag the beaches with their skirts of seathing foam!

Yet a deeper darkness brooding, blackens all the mountain’s edge,
And a startled mist is creeping under Keira’s beetling ledge!
But behold the stars have broaden’d, and they sit, a golden throng,
Where a ring of steadfast brightness overarches Wollongong;
While the nightwinds, growing mighty, hurry with an eerie croon
Past the whistling reedtops trembling on the long and low lagoon;
As a fearful sound of screaming wanders thro’ a swampy maze
Down to where the ocean cometh, raving round his roaring bays!

Kembla! now a fleecy glory o’er thy craggy head is thrown,
But ‘tis hard to watch this evening dying from thine ancient cone!
Let me linger here a little! See, a sweet and mournful gleam
Bends above the fallen sunset, like the halo in a dream! –
Do I dream, my friends and brothers? Shall I never see again
Morning, like a splendid monarch, trading Illawarra’s plain?
No! – a light is on the harbour, where the quivering vessels lie;
And the Present scowls upon me; and the Past goes wailing by!

Many years of sun and shadow have I seen beneath this hill –
But ‘tis vain to harp upon them, with a weak and broken will!
Tho’ I feel that I am weary, left alone to think and pine
Over Youth and Beauty vanish’d over Passion’s pale decline;
Standing, like a blasted ruin, shatter’d by the storms of strife
Sweeping with a thundering echo, down the dismal ways of life!
O the wrecks of Faith and Promise! O the blessed springs of yore –
O the faded things behind me! O the dreary void before!

Lo! the white moon shakes her silver tresses o’er the distant deep;
And a pale cloud, like a dreamer, walketh heaven in its sleep!
Now the western winds go trampling wildly over moaning seas;
And the gloomy caves are filling with a flood of symphonies!
But the night is waxing older, and the ship is down the bay!
And before tomorrow dawneth Kembla will be far away!
Lead me, brothers, to the vessel, so that thro’ the moony haze
I may watch your faces fading from my yearning, hopeless gaze!

edward basil (1861). i'm not a fan but hey, it mentions the beautiful landscape i see every day. i found it here - don't ask why.

this blog is now 490 posts and two years old. happy birthday blog!

today is national day of slayer, it has been since 2006 (06/06/06).

as indicated previously here: 1992.

si cfp

Symbolic Interaction, a peer-reviewed journal published quarterly by the University of California Press and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, invites submissions for a special issue dedicated to the application of symbolic interactionism to internet research.

Erving Goffman's concept of "the presentation of self" has become foundational to much scholarly understanding of online identity in chat, email, game environments, blogs, and social networks. Yet other aspects of the rich tradition of symbolic interaction -- including other concepts developed by Goffman -- have been largely ignored by internet researchers.

For this special issue, we welcome a broad range of approaches to studying computer-mediated interactions between individuals and within communities online, that utilize other lines of thought by Goffman, or the works of George H. Mead, Charles Cooley, Herbert Blumer, James Carey, Carl Couch, Norman Denzin or other theorists in the interactionist tradition. Definitions of the social situation, negotiation of meanings, social processes, framing, and other interactionist principles are possible theoretical foundations.

Qualitative studies will be privileged in the evaluation of submissions, as well as those reflecting recent theoretical developments in symbolic interaction theory. Topics may include online communities, virtual environments, games, social networking sites and any other forms of computer-mediated communication.

Papers that are supplemented by online materials are encouraged, and
space will be made available on the journal’s website (http://is.gd/gQ4Z) for authors to place links, examples, illustrations, or further discussion of the published texts.

Please send submissions electronically to mjohns at luther.edu.
Deadline for submissions is September 1, 2009.