Comments on: The Way of the Worm http://www.xenosystems.net/the-way-of-the-worm/ Involvements with reality Thu, 05 Feb 2015 06:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Outside in - Involvements with reality » Blog Archive » Gigadeath War http://www.xenosystems.net/the-way-of-the-worm/#comment-97550 Fri, 22 Aug 2014 11:12:28 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1643#comment-97550 […] (Some topic preemption at Outside in here.) […]

]]> By: Mark Warburton http://www.xenosystems.net/the-way-of-the-worm/#comment-30509 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:50:35 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1643#comment-30509 ‘Exvatika’, I hope you become a feature here. We’re gathering a little GS clique. ;)

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/the-way-of-the-worm/#comment-30503 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:41:41 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1643#comment-30503 Thanks.

]]> By: exvatika http://www.xenosystems.net/the-way-of-the-worm/#comment-30481 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:20:44 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1643#comment-30481 You may find particular resonance with Paul Mann’s text ‘Nine Grounds of Intellectual Warfare’ http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.196/mann.196 (courtesy of |end| & I)

]]> By: exvatika http://www.xenosystems.net/the-way-of-the-worm/#comment-30466 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:59:41 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1643#comment-30466 @

Mark, why consider leaving goldsmiths now when things are just getting interesting. ;)

]]> By: Mark Warburton http://www.xenosystems.net/the-way-of-the-worm/#comment-29462 Fri, 29 Nov 2013 01:10:34 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1643#comment-29462 Ha – how to broach the subject! I’m seeing him with my main supervisor on the 16th of December. A meeting that could be pivotal as to whether I continue at Goldsmiths or not. So I’ll probably leave pointed question for the time being. :)

]]> By: fotrkd http://www.xenosystems.net/the-way-of-the-worm/#comment-29460 Fri, 29 Nov 2013 00:46:01 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1643#comment-29460 Mark,

Would you fancy asking Mark Fisher about the difference between guilt and shame? It’s never been clear to me.

Guilt dominates ‘Exiting the Vampire Castle’, for instance:

Brand makes people feel good about themselves; whereas the moralising left specialises in making people feed bad, and is not happy until their heads are bent in guilt and self-loathing.

But apparently shame is an emotion we should universally share (as revealed in this snippet written shortly before Vampire Castle):

Just to be clear – what troubles me about people who went to private school or Oxbridge on the left is not that they went there – in spite of everything, against all the odds, many talented people have been there – but when they NEVER mention in public that they enjoyed those privileges – and worse when they think they can speak unproblematically from the position of the oppressed […] Everyone who went to Oxbridge or private school should be honest about it and be ashamed of it – not guilty but ashamed. Ashamed of the advantages they attained at the expense of others. I’m ashamed of the advantages I received compared to other members of my family never mind the wider class. We should speak honestly about this but then move on.

For slightly more life-affirming Bolshevikism, I did enjoy this Halloween talk (complete with rare, self-deprecating humour).

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/the-way-of-the-worm/#comment-29454 Thu, 28 Nov 2013 22:34:19 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1643#comment-29454 Thanks — that’s already been passed around the twitterverse to some considerable amusement. (I enjoyed it a lot.) Exploding-head responses will add a new wave of fun.

]]> By: Mark Warburton http://www.xenosystems.net/the-way-of-the-worm/#comment-29452 Thu, 28 Nov 2013 22:08:40 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1643#comment-29452 P.S. And I don’t just mean the responses in the comment section. A quick google search of the article will unearth full blown hysteria coming from all factions.

]]> By: Mark Warburton http://www.xenosystems.net/the-way-of-the-worm/#comment-29451 Thu, 28 Nov 2013 22:05:52 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1643#comment-29451 Nick, Mark Fisher (who’s currently my second supervisor at the mo), has written an article that has got the left fighting like cats in a pillow case. Thought you might find it (and the overwhelming number of responses) interesting.

http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=11299

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