Vivian Bolus Investigates!
Reading the Maps
Scott Hamilton seems an amiable long-winded New Zealand Socialist who blogs under the moniker Maps. Yesterday he wrote a parabolic stream of piss about Theodor Adorno, which needs investigating.
His first fuck-up was to say this about us here:
“Theodor has been getting a very hard time on The Rotten Elements blog these past few days, so I thought I'd get on the bandwagon”
This is a slur and this is slander and if he were on our bandwagon we’d just lob him off or he’s never got anywhere near our bandwagon because we wouldn’t let the idiot on anyway. Anyone with the faintest inkling of the Rotten Elements project knows that Adorno hovers swooning behind everything we do and say.
Actually, his first fuck-up is to say this:
“And with their dense page-long paragraphs soaked in philosophical verbiage, Adorno's texts are almost dour as his looks. If you're looking to make Marxism sexy, you'd be better advised to cast an eye on the visages and orations of Che Guevara or Hugo Chavez.”
Anyone with the faintest inkling of Adorno’s work knows that hovering swooning behind everything he says and does is a rapid, rabid, punk, Ayler, Cravan, Isadora Duncan, Webern, fizzles, Josephine Baker, Mina Loy, Velimir Khlebnikov issue of threat and provocation unbearable to our addled minds. The texxxxxts are only dull if a] you’re reading the crap translation or b] you have an addled mind.
Then, addled mapmind Scott Hamilton, who recently had a piece written in the Weekly Worker, clearly where he belongs, brings Harry Cleaver into it:
“In his book Reading Capital Politically Harry Cleaver fingered the unrest that broke out in many parts of the world in the 1960s as a refutation of the "gloomy" tenets of the Frankfurt School;”
I have same book in front of me now. God it’s awful. The fingering fucking referred goes without irony thus;
“Critical Theorists have remained blind to the ability of working-class struggles to transform and threaten the very existence of capital. Their concept of domination is so complete that the ‘dominated’ virtually disappears as an active historical subject.
To return to the military analogy we can pose the difficulty this way: if one’s attention is focused uniquely on the enemies activities on the battlefield, the battle will assuredly be lost. In the class war, as in conventional military encounters, one must begin with the closest study of one’s own forces, that is, the structure of working class power…In the movie Patton there is a highly instructive scene in which…” on and on, LEFT thought twitching cadaver neural architecture iron mesh skullgripped zumpzoidzone
Reading the Maps
Scott Hamilton seems an amiable long-winded New Zealand Socialist who blogs under the moniker Maps. Yesterday he wrote a parabolic stream of piss about Theodor Adorno, which needs investigating.
His first fuck-up was to say this about us here:
“Theodor has been getting a very hard time on The Rotten Elements blog these past few days, so I thought I'd get on the bandwagon”
This is a slur and this is slander and if he were on our bandwagon we’d just lob him off or he’s never got anywhere near our bandwagon because we wouldn’t let the idiot on anyway. Anyone with the faintest inkling of the Rotten Elements project knows that Adorno hovers swooning behind everything we do and say.
Actually, his first fuck-up is to say this:
“And with their dense page-long paragraphs soaked in philosophical verbiage, Adorno's texts are almost dour as his looks. If you're looking to make Marxism sexy, you'd be better advised to cast an eye on the visages and orations of Che Guevara or Hugo Chavez.”
Anyone with the faintest inkling of Adorno’s work knows that hovering swooning behind everything he says and does is a rapid, rabid, punk, Ayler, Cravan, Isadora Duncan, Webern, fizzles, Josephine Baker, Mina Loy, Velimir Khlebnikov issue of threat and provocation unbearable to our addled minds. The texxxxxts are only dull if a] you’re reading the crap translation or b] you have an addled mind.
Then, addled mapmind Scott Hamilton, who recently had a piece written in the Weekly Worker, clearly where he belongs, brings Harry Cleaver into it:
“In his book Reading Capital Politically Harry Cleaver fingered the unrest that broke out in many parts of the world in the 1960s as a refutation of the "gloomy" tenets of the Frankfurt School;”
I have same book in front of me now. God it’s awful. The fingering fucking referred goes without irony thus;
“Critical Theorists have remained blind to the ability of working-class struggles to transform and threaten the very existence of capital. Their concept of domination is so complete that the ‘dominated’ virtually disappears as an active historical subject.
To return to the military analogy we can pose the difficulty this way: if one’s attention is focused uniquely on the enemies activities on the battlefield, the battle will assuredly be lost. In the class war, as in conventional military encounters, one must begin with the closest study of one’s own forces, that is, the structure of working class power…In the movie Patton there is a highly instructive scene in which…” on and on, LEFT thought twitching cadaver neural architecture iron mesh skullgripped zumpzoidzone
