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I am an old boudoir full of withered roses.
Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal)
“Whereas peasants and serfs were dispossessed of land and forced to urbanize and take up wage labor, internet users are being dispossessed of their time and attention, which are being enclosed through surveillance, then quantified and monetized,” writes Dr. Daniel Joseph, a political economist (and Waypoint contributor) at the University of Toronto, who wrote his dissertation on Steam. “Platforms are the means for this enclosure, mediating activity for the purposes of controlling all forms of exchange around it.”
Perhaps that all seems far from Artifact—a humble card game, after all, about wizards and shit—but it’s really not. Facebook dreams of capturing all that is social (which is to say everything), and while Artifact has a different target in mind, the underlying principle of enclosing more is the same. Artifact does to Magic what Facebook did to friendships because capturing metagames is not, in the end, all that different from capturing the social. Dr. Garfield was right that “games without metagames … don’t really exist.” Yet where he saw metagames as the essence of what made games matter, Valve saw an opportunity to turn Magic’s metagames—its proxy cards, its aftermarkets—into markets of its own, a transmutation only Steam was equipped to do. That, in the end, is Artifact in its iron heart: a machine for capturing metagames.
Identification with the system has gotten so extreme that it has replaced a functioning critical culture. When it comes to movies today, we are constantly being asked to exult in other people’s successes and to gang up on their failures. Congratulating movie studios on making lots of money on films that are not very good is a real turning point in film criticism—the ultimate refinement of the consumer-guide model….
…For all the anger at critics, film criticism is very gentle these days.
We can partially attribute it, I think, to how infantile Hollywood cinema has become. The American film industry is dominated by children’s films—superhero movies, post–Star Wars franchise films, and animated family films. As the audience becomes similarly infantilized, the critics have followed suit. No one wants to be too mean to these babyish productions that audiences cart their families to again and again, or that they leave on permanent repeat in the back seats of their cars.
“Elias argued that human interdependencies should be the very heart of sociological inquiry. Like pragmatist thought, Elias’s figurational thinking emphasized processes over entities and the particularity of relations and people over an abstract notion of the social. For him, there is no social apart from concrete relations; rather, the social is those relations. Moreover, all relations are understood as part of wider figurations of interdependency. Relations gain their meaning from their position within these wider figurations, which are always dynamic and created by people as a whole – not only by their cognitive capacities but by their whole selves, including their emotional needs and connections. Self for Elias is not an entity but a process: ‘A person is in constant movement. He does not only go through a process, but he is a process’ (1978: 118). He developed a notion of ‘open people’ who are not clearly bounded, but are bound to others through affective bonds that become integral parts of the self: ‘people look to others for the fulfilment of a whole gamut of emotional needs’ (1978: 134).”
— Roseneil
S and Ketokivi K (2016) Relational Persons and Relational Processes: Developing
the Notion of Relationality for the Sociology of Personal Life. Sociology
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brightsis asked:
So I'm a huge fan of king fu movies, but what I've seen is pretty limited. Do you have a list of must-see movies you could share? It's hard to glance at a martial arts flick and tell which are worth seeing and which can sit on the backburner.
the36thbloggerofshaolin answered:
Well, you’ve come to the right place! The list of “kung fu movie must-sees” is massively long and ten different people will give you ten different answers.
The list I’m going to give you is going to contain films that might not usually get recommend. It’s not going to have The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, The Magnificent Butcher or Drunken Master on it. Instead, I’ll give you a bunch of films I think are overlooked must-sees, if you will. I’ll try to cover all bases: Shaw Brothers, old school shapes, wuxia, modern 80′s kickboxing and contemporary. Here you go…
- The Shaolin Temple
- Ten Tigers From Kwangtung
- Martial Arts of Shaolin
- Dirty Ho
- Dance of the Drunken Mantis
- The Mystery of Chess Boxing
- Shaolin vs Lama
- Daggers 8
- Encounters of the Spooky Kind
- Warriors Two
- Tower of Death aka Game of Death 2
- The Sword
- The Loot
- My Lucky Stars
- Millionaire’s Express
- Iron Angels (aka Angel)
- Tiger Cage 2
- The Iceman Cometh
- Duel to the Death
- Shaolin Prince
- Bloody Parrot
- New Police Story
- Once Upon a Time in China 5
- Fong Sai Yuk I & II
- Kung Fu Jungle (aka Kung Fu Killer)
- The Lost Bladesman
- New Dragon Gate Inn
- South Shaolin Master
- The Brink
- Kung Fu Wing Chun
- The Wrath of Vajra
This is a pretty solid list, I think. If you want me to list the typical staples of kung fu cinema, I can do that too. Just thought I’d spice it up a bit.
“This is life seen by life. I may not have meaning but it is the same lack of meaning that the pulsing vein has […] Listen to me, listen to the silence. What I say to you is never what I say to you but something else instead. It captures the thing that escapes me and yet I live from it and am above a shining darkness.”
— Clarice Lispector, from Água Viva, translated by Stefan Tobler
… men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male; the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object—and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
John Berger, Ways of Seeing.