All of the ephemera that is far too trivial to be bothered with elsewhere on this site or, depending on your point of view, a meta-commentary on it. This ephemera includes, but is not limited to art, music and literature. Most of the content here will be discussed in terms that are as abstract as possible, reality being a singularly overrated concept.
Thursday, August 01, 2002
I think it's fair to say that it's not everyday that one comes across an article quite like this; kidnapping for kicks in New York. It does rather remind me of Zizek's summary of Badiou, "That is to say, precisely because the universe in which we live is somehow a universe of dead conventions and artificiality, the only authentic real experience must be some extremely violent, shattering experience." However, I suspect it may be all to easy to over-egg this particular pudding, if only because the question 'but why?' is not one that would seem to have an obvious answer.
