I had not mentioned it before cause I didn’t want to jinx anything but I have just received (via courier) an entire Street Machine Magazine and Supercar Magazine collection bought on eBay. I have nearly every single Street Machine Magazine of the 1980s and almost all the Supercar Magazines, too. Supercar was a competitor to […]
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Captors of Souls
This is the question: what is a body capable of? What affects are you capable of? Experiment, but you need a lot of prudence to experiment. We live in a world which is generally disagreeable, where not only people but the established powers have a stake in transmitting sad affects to us. Sadness, sad affects, […]
Affect Control Theory
If I do a postdoc, part of the work will be reading every single thing on ‘affect control theory’ (ACT) and taking it out of the hands of the governmental types in criminology. I pledge to never again write it as ACT, ie a TLA (three letter acronym). Have other people known about this approach? […]
VW GTI Ads
VW has some interesting and funny GTI ads at the moment. Watch them here. The invocation of ‘engineering’ (in this case ‘German’ engineering no less) against some kind of ‘pimp my ride’ aesthetic or style is typical of enthusiast car cultures. So my question is quite simple: Why isn’t ‘German engineering’ considered a particular aesthetic? […]
Demented Capitalism #27
I need a new laser printer toner cartridge. After much googling I figured out there is some weird cross-printer cartridge compatibility. The cartridge is actually a Samsung product even though printer is a Fuji Xerox unit. Anyway, from my local tech shoppe the printer cartridge cost the same as a new printer! Yes, that would […]