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It's a comedy HS thread, revelling in it's paradoxical nature, it's in the Headshop but it's funny!
Time was when pretty much all the Head Shop threads were equally readable as spoof or serious. They weren't any better or worse than threads are now, but no-one expected it had to be all heavy serious discussion, all of the time. The best advice I was ever given for posting to the Head Shop was from Jackie Susann: a) never take it seriously, and b) pretend you know what you're talking about until you do. Jackie was right.
Do people never imagine that play is theoretical, or vice versa? Do we have to break out the Derrida to prove that theoretical jouissance is performative, that is, practiced as it is said? (Sorry, non-headshop trans.: thinky joy = thinky JOY.) That this involves games? Language is games; power is games; thinking is games. I'd rather do ludic spoofery about theorists than talk about whether there's any good in the world, getting into another eye-stabbing argument about whether the US should have invaded Iraq.
At least (and this is mostly directed to Papers) please stop the condescending asides about when the children will forget their annoying new game. Go mock, by all means, in lolcat. But don't talk about people as if they're not reading, not present. It's rude. |
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