Friday, 10 October 2014

NehruvianDOOM- Caskets


Shadowrun

"So here's my next step: we are living in a 21st century that resembles a mutant Shadowrun—by turns a cyberpunk dystopia and a world where everyone has access to certain kinds of magic. And if you want to explore the human condition under circumstances which might plausibly come to pass, these days the human condition is constrained by technologies so predictably inaccessible that they might as well be magic. So magic makes a great metaphor for probing the human condition. We might not have starships, but there's a Palantir in every pocket (and we might not have dragons, but some of our wizards are working on it )."

  Charles Stross, "Not-A-Manifesto," Oct. 10th (Antipope.org)

Batsex

I haven't read the new Batgirl book. Probably won't. Scratch that: definitely won't. But I'm curious enough on account of the hype to scan reviews. This image caught my attention. It's nice to see Babs (aka Barbara Gordon, aka Batgirl, aka Not-Oracle-Anymore) presented as a sexual being. And a voracious one at that! Batman gets to be the 'hairy-chested love god' without losing his authority as a costumed vigilante. Why can't Batgirl fuck randos too?

She grabs his shirt like she wants him inside her. Its a simple way of communicating a deeper passion for life and pleasure underneath all that grim-dark bondage gear that the Bat-family tends to wear. And, really, should we be surprised that Babs likes it a little firm? Christ, Bruce Wayne probably can't even cum anymore without someone slapping him in the face repeatedly, telling him about how she wants his bat-symbol all over her. You need something a little extra extra after multiple exposures to fear toxins, poisonous plant women, and extra-terrestrial possessions.

      Batgirl #35, Oct. 2014  (DC Comics)

Cherry Glazerr - Had Ten Dollaz


Thursday, 9 October 2014

Agamben and The Wire

The Couch
"It is on this other, more obscure, face of potentiality that today the power one ironically defines as 'democratic' prefers to act. It separates humans not only and not so much from what they can do but primarily and for the most part from what they can not do. Separated from his impotentiality, deprived of the experience of what he can not do, today's man believes himself capable of everything, and so he repeats his jovial 'no problem,' and his irresponsible 'I can do it,' precisely when he should instead realise that he has been consigned in unheard of measure to forces and processes over which he has lost all control."

         Giorgio Agamben, "On What We Can Not Do," Nudities (Stanford, 2011)