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Thursday, June 26, 2003

The two best things about the new Harry Potter: the surprisingly cynical vision of governmental bureaucracy - edging on Ibsenesque - and the piece where Harry learns more about his parents. His response is just right, and deeply human.

posted by jeev | 8:33 PM |

From Anselm Jappe's book on Guy Debord:

Exchange-value has come to dominate use-value (SS 46), and the detachment of the commodity from any genuine human need has succeeded, with the advent of patently useless objects, in attaining a quasi-religious level: Debord evokes the collecting of promotional key chains, which he characterizes as "indulgences" of the commodity (SS 67). What such an instance demonstrates is that the commodity no longer contains so much as an "atom" of use-value but that it is henceforward consumable qua commodity.

I think this is going to be a fun read.

posted by jeev | 8:18 PM |

For those of you who are gay and living in Texas, you may finally have sex.

posted by jeev | 1:31 PM |

Another reason for going to the wedding: this was the view