Comments for Ellard

Comment on Ralph Balson – paint musician. by Richard

Richard — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:23:22 +0000

As a fan of Mondrian thank you for bringing these painters/artists to my attention Tom:-)

Comment on Hate Mail by tte

tte — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:13:45 +0000

Working in academia is still working. All the usual workplace hopes and disappointments apply. Certainly you’ll meet a bunch of people that never left school, but there’s plenty of those in government and the military as well.

Comment on Hate Mail by Richard Effing Rasu

Richard Effing Rasu — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:55:41 +0000

Awesome, keep the nose-tweaking up!

Comment on Hate Mail by JkbW

JkbW — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:33:59 +0000

“1. Why do you want to work in academia then?”

Implication: If you want to work in academia, you better get on the same bandwagon as everyone else, no matter what construction flaws you perceive. Yes, critical and independent thinking is all very well, but let’s face it, human beings primarily want to set up tribes.

Comment on Hate Mail by tte

tte — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:35:37 +0000

Mr. Blake: indeed I see you as the go-to expert on buggery not only through writing. You might remember I chipped in to pay for the Slugfuckers album. I didn’t give a flying fuck about dolphins. Instead I think the more marbles you throw on the ground the more people get dancing.

It’s not that people didn’t like it, it’s just that having pulled the cracker open, got the hat and the joke, people wanted to get the plastic toy.

(If you hadn’t hit Gay Paree you’d probably be on a committee about teaching schedules with Graham Forsyth and me right now).

I’m going to read about the fish today, but first I’ve got a heavy date with some 20th century painters that I’ve just learned about and developed a major crush.

Comment on Hate Mail by Terence Blake

Terence Blake — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:42:41 +0000

I did not notice the 70s, I just lived through them naively, not realising that they would come to an end, despite having done two years of math at Uni. At the very end of the 70s and the very beginning of the 80s I was in a band called the SLUGFUCKERS (so you can see that I was quite impartial about the buggery-question). Noone liked this, so I immigrated to France.
I like the image of the flying fish: it lives in the water (do you know David Foster Wallace’s speech “This is Water”? It is better than people say. Don’t buy the book, it’s a rip off. You can find the text here: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/martinme/Thisiswater.htm). The fish can jump out into the meta-level (the air) and see what is normally imperceptible, this is good. But it can’t stay there and set up class and give us all lessons. The flying fish spends most of its time in the water, and this is good too. I hope that its meta-jumps change how it swims when it falls back.

Comment on Hate Mail by tte

tte — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:40:52 +0000

Mr. Blake: I was worried that people might not understand where the buggery came about. I sent them to you rather than try figure it out over here.

I don’t like the meta because it means if I say ‘your film sucks’, they can (and have said) “I’m not making a film – I’m examining the idea of making a film” (and therefore not open to the critique). It’s just one of many manoeuvres that avoid a fair fight. Along with ‘research’. When people “research with a film” it’s like a get-out-of-engaging-an-audience card in Monopoly.

The 70s were very sexy. They do need tour guides but maybe not opening a theme park called SEVENTIES WORLD.

Comment on Hate Mail by Ed

Ed — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:43:59 +0000

Fuck em up Tom!

Comment on Hate Mail by Tim

Tim — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:21:15 +0000

Ah, I will never stop knowing that the pinnacle of my life source will be to some day share a cocktail or two with you. Ellard, you are a total fucking enigma and probably the most peacocked version of that particular enigma that the world has ever allowed to be in existance
God (whoever – whatever) bless you man. The laughs you create will always reverb in my little super tiny little world.

Good show man.

Comment on Hate Mail by Terence Blake

Terence Blake — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:09:09 +0000

Academics tend to stay on the meta-level and so to void bodies and practices of their libido and life. Meta-music tries to replace music. My problem with Zizek is that he takes the sex out of Deleuze’s buggery and replaces it with meta-buggery. I think you’re too hard on the 70s, which were full of many ideas and experiments that were too quickly forgotten. However, one big thing in the 70s was Freudism, and this should have been forgotten, but people like Zizek keep trying to bring it back in reheated form as if they were going beyond people like Deleuze and Lyotard and many others. Why not?, as long as it not imposed as a meta-language that gives us the key to novels, films and music. I think that going to the meta-level is quite a good thing, otherwise you couldn’t write your blog, and neither could I mine. The problem is when these micro-meta moments get unified into a devitalised desexualised know-it-all stance. So I am glad that you are not intimidated.