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вторник, 29 мая 2012 г.

UNNECESSARY FLASHBACK TIME

So I’m at my parents’ house in California, which is nice in that I can get intoxicated easily and shit in that I don’t have anyone to join me in examining the redesign of one of the rooms that I designed and my mother completed.

AND THAT GOT ME THINKING…my destiny as an abusive high-end-hipster designer began early. I used to collect miniature furniture by Bombay.

IN CASE Y’ALL WEREN’T 40 BEFORE YOU WERE 4 LIKE ME, miniature furniture by Bombay is stuff like this:

and this:

and this.

This is not the last of my ridiculousness.

I would then…make them look distressed and paint others white and…well, it looked like one of those beautiful rooms you always see in those hipster pictures.

I know you know what I’m talking about here.

And now I’ve gone on to design, essentially…the designs of my childhood obsession with ruining fine furniture in miniature.

(pictures totally to come—I can’t wait to show off my bangin’ shag rug and bird cages and ivy)

I feel a tad bad for not even a little bit studying for my exam today.

And then I remember that it’s two essays in two hours for a single-term course on the topic that I connected 5 of my 10 essays of the year to, psychoanalysis.

BUT THEN I remember that it’s for SROLL (Sexual Racist Old Lady Lecturer), who is my HERO and whom I want to oversee my dissertation so I need to impress.

But then I remember that this is the woman who gave me an 83 on my final video for her and who told me my cleavage was magnificent and that the reason I want her to oversee my dissertation is that she WILL NOT GIVE A FLYING FUCK.

So, uh, I guess my point being…

I'm on a 90's role lately.

I’m watching the early cycles of ANTM, which is my favourite feel-so-bad-about-yourself-that-you-work-out-and-then-go-on-feminist-rants-about-the-travesty-that-is-that-show show, and the second season of Buffy, and the ‘tudes and the sassy prints are killing me.

THE 90’S WERE AWFUL, LET US NEVER REPEAT THEM

"There is 100 percent employment for all Neopets because everyone is allowed to play the games. This..."

“There is 100 percent employment for all Neopets because everyone is allowed to play the games. This is something we as Americans will never be able to achieve. And as graduation looms even closer and I begin my job search in earnest, I wish I had a guarantee of employment for the years ahead. But instead all I have is the possibility of escaping to the Neopian utopia for a couple of hours — the only problem with that is I seem to have forgotten my password.”

- from Neopian Economics by Shara Azad
I’ll eventually write a thing discussing the anti-capitalist potential in creating alternative virtual spheres of interaction. I already wrote a thing on Team Fortress 2, but this is hilarious and great.
There are a few flaws in a Neopian economic model being translated to the real world. The main issue seems to be with the Neopets themselves. Because Neopets are seemingly immortal — mine always had a hunger level of “dying” but never actually died — productivity is never limited by the workers themselves. It also seems possible to win an infinite number of Neopoints; I like to think that the limiting factor for my “Ultimate Riches!” bank account was the fact that my parents wanted me off the computer by 9 p.m. every night.
How would this be transliterated into the world of mortal humans? I guess it would necessitate a configuration of socioeconomic relations that address incentivizing productivity by paying based on output and finally abandoning the abstract wage and capitalist temporality. Neopets is great.
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Neopian economic critiques of the capitalist superstructure: coming soon.
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yeah, this is probably the best thing I could have ever read.
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