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Post by ozneil on Mar 9, 2012 20:52:49 GMT -1
Westies remark about BBC on another thread reminded me that I watched part of Jeremy Paxton's Programme "Empire" the other night I couldnt stand the man. I thought he was an arrogant condescending pr*ck but Im sure Im wrong Im sure hes a lovely person. I know it was only the innate good manners of the Indian gentleman he was "interviewing" that stopped him from sh***g teeth. I didnt see the end I switched off. Its a pity, generally the BBC does that type of programme very well
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Post by Sir Henry Rawlinson on Mar 16, 2012 7:02:34 GMT -1
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Post by ozneil on Mar 16, 2012 19:49:08 GMT -1
Now he tells me
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Post by ozneil on Mar 20, 2012 21:55:51 GMT -1
From Tim Blairs Blogg Sydney Telegraph:-
Everybody is looking forward to this Thursday’s Sydney seminar from visiting New York University “cultural anthropologist” Professor Allen Feldman:
The violence that is poised between humanitas and inhumanitas speaks to the metaphysical ordering and phantasms of everyday political terror. Are practices of political aggression separable from the Western metaphysical divide between human and animal, and what are the ideological utilities of this divide? Are acts and discourses of inhumanization how philosophical anthropology (and all anthropologies are ultimately philosophical and political) confesses itself, not as theorem or disciplinary taxonomy, but as a political culture with the most severe material criteria and bodily consequences? Does political animality point to an anthropological sovereignty that only acquires positivity, tangibility, and figuration through its displacement onto, and passage into, the extimacy that is animality? And why does subjugated or expelled animality perennially threaten anthropological plenitude as an uncontainable negativity? These questions imply that the many thresholds of language, labor and finitude that have repeatedly delimited, governed and consigned the animal and human in metaphysical thought and practice can be remapped as a properly political dominion; a wildlife reserve in which philosophical, ethological, and anthropological declaratives and descriptions encrypt zoopolitical relations of power and force, and where the animal predicate circumscribes a concentrated time and space of subjugation, exposure, disappearance and abandonment.
(Via Ron Brunton, who emails: “Although I have been an anthropologist for over 40 years, I have no idea what this means. As I have often said, a really clever country would close most of its universities.")
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Post by Sir Henry Rawlinson on May 14, 2012 10:47:57 GMT -1
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Post by westender on May 17, 2012 11:17:39 GMT -1
From Tim Blairs Blogg Sydney Telegraph:- Everybody is looking forward to this Thursday’s Sydney seminar from visiting New York University “cultural anthropologist” Professor Allen Feldman: The violence that is poised between humanitas and inhumanitas speaks to the metaphysical ordering and phantasms of everyday political terror. Are practices of political aggression separable from the Western metaphysical divide between human and animal, and what are the ideological utilities of this divide? Are acts and discourses of inhumanization how philosophical anthropology (and all anthropologies are ultimately philosophical and political) confesses itself, not as theorem or disciplinary taxonomy, but as a political culture with the most severe material criteria and bodily consequences? Does political animality point to an anthropological sovereignty that only acquires positivity, tangibility, and figuration through its displacement onto, and passage into, the extimacy that is animality? And why does subjugated or expelled animality perennially threaten anthropological plenitude as an uncontainable negativity? These questions imply that the many thresholds of language, labor and finitude that have repeatedly delimited, governed and consigned the animal and human in metaphysical thought and practice can be remapped as a properly political dominion; a wildlife reserve in which philosophical, ethological, and anthropological declaratives and descriptions encrypt zoopolitical relations of power and force, and where the animal predicate circumscribes a concentrated time and space of subjugation, exposure, disappearance and abandonment. Have you ever heard of Pseuds Corner, ozneil...? Not a very clever anthropologist methinks... ...mind you, when you consider what's supposed to pass for a university these days....! [/quote]
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Post by westender on May 17, 2012 11:19:48 GMT -1
Westies remark about BBC on another thread reminded me that I watched part of Jeremy Paxton's Programme "Empire" the other night I couldnt stand the man. I thought he was an arrogant condescending pr*ck but Im sure Im wrong Im sure hes a lovely person. I know it was only the innate good manners of the Indian gentleman he was "interviewing" that stopped him from sh***g teeth. I didnt see the end I switched off. Its a pity, generally the BBC does that type of programme very well Paxman. Naw ye're right, he is an arrogant condescending obnoxious English prick. Good for a laugh at times however. (no need for asterisks here m'dear!)
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Post by ozneil on May 17, 2012 22:53:54 GMT -1
Yeah seems they all end up here to edjumacate us peons Believe it or not we still get a certain class of Brit and Yank that still arrives thinking we are just waiting with bated breath for their words of wisdom on how we should be living our lives. Some seem quite surprised we dont all run around with corks dangling from our hats and dodging kangaroos in George Street
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Post by ozneil on May 18, 2012 0:27:39 GMT -1
Paxman. Naw ye're right, he is an arrogant condescending obnoxious English prick. Good for a laugh at times however. (no need for asterisks here m'dear!) I kept an eye on the synopsis of the programmes to see what he said about Oz. As far as I could see, mind you I could have missed it, nothing was mentioned about USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. They probably didnt fit into his image of what ex-colonial countries should be like. Out of context but loved the story in WW1 2 brothers in uniform having dinner in a swanky, no other ranks, London restaurant. The staff and patrons didnt quite know how to behave or what to do. You see one brother was a full Colonel and the other a sergeant. It just wasnt done. You can bet that the brothers knew exactly what they were doing. Paxton's attitude reminded me of that.
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Post by bormes on May 18, 2012 7:26:27 GMT -1
Still too much of it in most of the UK's forces.
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Post by Sir Henry Rawlinson on May 31, 2012 22:31:56 GMT -1
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2012 23:13:58 GMT -1
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Post by Sir Henry Rawlinson on Aug 21, 2012 11:21:12 GMT -1
Michael J Fox is to return to TV in a 20 part comedy based on his own illness.
that really is going to be a barrell of fucking laughs.
jeeez
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2012 17:26:14 GMT -1
What is it he has, Sir Henry? MS?
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Post by Sir Henry Rawlinson on Aug 22, 2012 17:34:06 GMT -1
Parkinsons I believe.
Lots of shakey comedy material there
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