Swine Flu in the paper

You Can Make Him Like You - The Hold Steady

You don't have to deal with the dealers
Let your boyfriend deal with the dealers.
It only gets inconvenient
When you want to get high alone.

You don't have to know how to get home
Let your boyfriend tell the driver the best way to go.
It only gets kind of weird
When you wanna go home alone.

You don't have to know the inspiring people
Let your boyfriend know the inspiring people.
You can hang in the kitchen
Talk about the stars and the upcoming sequel.

If you get tired of your boyfriends things
There's always other boys.
There's always other boyfriends.
If you get tired of your boyfriends scene
There's always other scenes.
There's always other boyfriends.

You don't have to deal with the dealers
Let your boyfriend deal with the dealers.
It only gets inconvenient
When you want to get high alone.

You don't have to go to the right kind of schools
Let your boyfriend come from the right kind of schools.
You can wear his old sweatshirt.
You can cover yourself like a bruise.

If you get tired of your boyfriend's things.
There's always other boys
There's always other boyfriends.
If you get tired of your football friends.
There's always other boys
There's always other boyfriends.
If you get tired of the the car he drives.
There's always other boys
You can make him like you.
If you get tired of the music he likes.
There's always other boys
You can make him like you.

They say you dont have a problem until you start to do it alone.
They say you dont have a problem until you start bringing it home.
They say you dont have a problem until you start sleeping alone.

There's always other boys.
There's always other boyfriends.
There's always other boys.
You can make him like you.

Beyond Good and Evil

"'I am a wanderer and a mountainclimber' Zarathustra said to his
heart. 'What returns, what finally comes home to me is my own self.
Alas, I have begun my loneliest walk. But whoever is of my kind cannot
escape such an hour - the hour which says to him 'only now are you
going your way to greatness'. Peak and abyss, they are now joined
together. For all things are baptised in a well of eternity, and lie
beyond good and evil'".

- Fred Nietzsche

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Pretty in Pink

Caroline laughs and
It's raining all day
She loves to be one of the girls
She lives in the place
In the side of our lives
Where nothing is
Ever put straight
She turns herself round
And she smiles and she says
'This is it'

'That's the end of the joke'
And loses herself
In her dreaming and sleep
And her lovers walk
Through in their coats

Pretty in pink
Isn't she?
Pretty in pink
Isn't she?

All of her lovers
All talk of her notes
And the flowers
That they never sent
And wasn't she easy
And isn't she
Pretty in pink
The one who insists
He was first in the line
Is the last to
Remember her name
He's walking around
In this dress
That she wore
She is gone
But the joke's the same

Pretty in pink
Isn't she?
Pretty in pink
Isn't she?

Caroline talks to you
Softly sometimes
She says
'I love you' and
'Too much'
She doesn't have anything
You want to steal
Well
Nothing you can touch
She waves
She buttons your shirt
The traffic
Is waiting outside
She hands you this coat
She gives you her clothes
These cars collide

Pretty in pink
Isn't she?
Pretty in pink
Isn't she?

- The Psychadelic Furs

One Taste

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so too, this Dhamma and Discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
(Uposatha Sutta, Udana Verse 5, translated by Bhikkhu Nanomoli 1992, p.162)

Another Sunday Afternoon Vanishing Point

No Independent Thought - (Bondi Road Culturejammers)

No Imagination - (Bondi Road Culturejammers)

Conform - (Bondi Road Culturejammers)

Submit #2 - (Bondi Road Culturejammers)

Work 8 Hours - (Bondi Road Culturejammers)

Watch TV - (Bondi Road Culturejammers)

Submit - (Bondi Road Culturejammers)

This Is Your God #2 - (Bondi Road Culturejammers)

This Is Your God - (Bondi Road culturejammers)

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Alienation Haiku

Industrial vice
Encircling naked crown
Crushing each temple

Foucault's philosophical poetry on emulation and resemblances

Vale J.G. Ballard

"The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not"

- J.G. Ballard

How much is that dead grunge star in the window?

Oscar on Grouches

"He knew the price of everything, and the value of nothing".

- Oscar Wilde

"Jah lives his children, Jah lives his children now"..

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Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

"... so it is not a matter of building up the awakened state of mind, but rather of burning out the confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product, dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which us created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be the possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanenent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it".

- Chögyam Trungpa

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Integral Strategies for the Recomposition of Masculinities

My proposal for the Integral Anthology of Sex and Gender: Integral Subjects.

Integral Strategies for the Recomposition of Masculinities

Luke Fullagar

Via an integral philosophical ontology of bio/psycho/socio/cultural development, this paper will seek to situate critical historical moments in the modernist and postmodernist philosophical understanding and practice of (western) masculinity against key developmental continua (ie. evidence-based cognitive, moral and ego developmental models). This method will be invoked to suggest elemental aspects of a trajectory in the creation and investigation of, and responses to, the establishment of a social politics of (western) masculinity in the varying stages of feminist, gay and masculinist projects, and to point at a possible direction for contemporary research, philosophy and practice in the masculinities

This argument will act as precursor to the critical assertion that (following Connell) postmodern historical consciousness about gender as situated within liberal pluralism may be extended from the dualist perspectives of early Men's Liberation which vacillated between masculine annihilation in favour of androgyny on account of this historical construction perspective (ie. a 'myth of the given'), and the preservationist reactions to this early postmodern differentiation and critique of masculine dominance (e.g. the mythopoetic movement) which sought to erroneously adopt a liberationist political strategy for the dominating social practice of masculinity (e.g. hypothesising a 'deep masculine' essence in male bodies) in response to the perception of pro-feminist rejection of difference.

I will proffer a reconstructive postmodenist or 'integral' strategy which adopts this historical consciousness as leverage for the degendered recomposition and re-embodiment of social practices in all forms of human bodies absent their assignment as being characteristic of the sexed body. It is from this position that the thorough insight practices encouraged by integral communities for exploring embodiment of body, mind and spirit in self, culture and nature will be endorsed. Moreover, a critique of some dominant statements on gender from the (mostly North American) integral philosophical and practice worldview will be offered to define currently perceived errors and edges of development in this philosophical school.

By demonstrating how a rationalist, hegemonic, western practice of masculinity has been dominant in both pro and con investigations across gender literature, this paper will illustrate how an integral masculinities will be required to continue to address the important political strategy of delegitimising the documented sociological perils generated (in part) by this form of masculinity (e.g. violence, control of finance, technology and machinery), while not stymying generative movement in the philosophy, process and practice of gender reformation for those at the edge of the development of social justice projects. One critical point to be indicated here is the circumstances of an integral (heterosexual) male's existence in the current western techno-industrial societies (and in the aftermath of a decade of western neo-conservative politics) in the absence of historical crucibles such as feminism or queer theory which have delegitimised attacks against integral women or homosexuals at the level of societal norms, and therefore the concrete-operations or rule/role action-logics which dominate the rationalist western practice of masculinity. Heterosexual male-specific gender liberation practices will be postulated as an area of extremely poor attention by academia and social justice movements, and the philosophical difficulties for the development of such a socio-political strategy (e.g. the ability of postmodern feminism, for example, to mobilise females for the cause of 'women' versus the philosophical difficulty for integral male bodies to mobilise a genus group with a significant enough political voice) in the current climate will be further explored. This position will not be argued in opposition to feminist or queer projects, but rather, as a discrete aspect of the lagging plight of a recomposed masculinity as attached to heterosexual male embodiment at the site of western techno-industrial society and culture. It will be postulated that meeting this perspective in practice will be critical to navigating the differentiation between postmodern and integral stages of hetero-male bio/psycho/socio/cultural embodiment, which currently includes a number of subtly reactionary, modernist preservationist perspectives hostile to a perceived weakness in the western hetero-male's postmodern condition, and championing the mistaken guise of a 'new man'.

Thomas Jefferson on the perils of private interests in central banking

Is Bali 9'r Scott Rush modelling for yd.?

Take that Magritte!

JG Ballard on the economy of dreams...

"However hard we resist, our dreams still carry the legend "Made in
the U.S.A."

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Stop the Cell Off

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