‘We are the ones we have been waiting for.’
AND What are you going to do in the war, Mummy?
ad by way of introducing the artist, Brendon Wilkinson, new to me, maker of the superb Meat Dust, 2006
– from here, advertising a shop in Istanbul
home (a note on new Christchurch earthquake music video: my city’s in ruins: no link) & away (but maybe these Arabs were there all along: a link to electronic intifada)
quite apart from the monetarisation of every relation, there appears the
as if
of our neo-colonised and neo-liberal social setup: as if a relation belonged to the world of commercial communication. The models set by the commercialisation of culture hereby extend beyond what may – usefully or not – be exchanged outside
thoughts, prayers, business, shit and jelly: the Christchurch earthquake
The jolt was felt as far away as Tauranga, which is an hour south of Auckland, and all over the South Island. But it was shallower and more localised than the last quake in Christchurch. The last measured 7.1, its epicentre 50 km out to sea and 10 km
this disaster… will rip the heart out of Christchurch, once again, and for a long time to come
– from here
that aftershock made me lose my place in your question
– from here