Comments on: Britney Spears ful­fills my fan­tasies http://blog.voyou.org/2008/03/25/britney-spears-fulfills-my-fantasies/ Lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: voyou http://blog.voyou.org/2008/03/25/britney-spears-fulfills-my-fantasies/comment-page-1/#comment-22351 voyou Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:43:32 +0000 http://blog.voyou.org/2008/03/25/britney-spears-fulfills-my-fantasies/#comment-22351 <em>its as if rebellion-like so much else-is currently compressed into an unarticulated/inarticulable “feeling” (the 00s will certainly be viewed as the decade of feeling in about 20 years)</em> That's a really good way of putting it. And, although on one level it's hopeful (there's something rebellion-like out there, somewhere), on another level it's pretty depressing, because, at least for myself, I realize that I too sort of accept the "rebellion as feeling" model. its as if rebellion-like so much else-is currently compressed into an unarticulated/inarticulable “feeling” (the 00s will certainly be viewed as the decade of feeling in about 20 years)

That’s a really good way of putting it. And, although on one level it’s hopeful (there’s something rebellion-like out there, somewhere), on another level it’s pretty depressing, because, at least for myself, I realize that I too sort of accept the “rebellion as feeling” model.

]]> By: ++++++ http://blog.voyou.org/2008/03/25/britney-spears-fulfills-my-fantasies/comment-page-1/#comment-22344 ++++++ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:38:05 +0000 http://blog.voyou.org/2008/03/25/britney-spears-fulfills-my-fantasies/#comment-22344 ...so the critique keeps appearing over and over in pop culture like some latent dream image. …so the critique keeps appearing over and over in pop culture like some latent dream image.

]]> By: ++++++ http://blog.voyou.org/2008/03/25/britney-spears-fulfills-my-fantasies/comment-page-1/#comment-22343 ++++++ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:37:16 +0000 http://blog.voyou.org/2008/03/25/britney-spears-fulfills-my-fantasies/#comment-22343 Its as if objectively, conditions are so ripe for a popular critique of capital or the American Way of Life and a popular movement of alternatives, and yet subjectively America is perhaps as ill-prepared as its ever been to produce that critique. Its as if objectively, conditions are so ripe for a popular critique of capital or the American Way of Life and a popular movement of alternatives, and yet subjectively America is perhaps as ill-prepared as its ever been to produce that critique.

]]> By: ++++++ http://blog.voyou.org/2008/03/25/britney-spears-fulfills-my-fantasies/comment-page-1/#comment-22342 ++++++ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:32:47 +0000 http://blog.voyou.org/2008/03/25/britney-spears-fulfills-my-fantasies/#comment-22342 riot police imagery in pop is strangely prevalent in the last few years, no? kind of strange. there’s that foo fighters video from a year or two ago, and i cant place exactly where i’ve seen it, but it turns up in ads every now and then (wasn’t there a microsoft ad recently where protesters faced off with cops in riot gear that had no text at all and just a small microsoft logo in the corner?) its as if rebellion-like so much else-is currently compressed into an unarticulated/inarticulable “feeling” (the 00s will certainly be viewed as the decade of feeling in about 20 years) and so ads can use the feeling to push any old thing on a part of the public that relates to a desire for standing up to the “system” or casting off some chain or something but has never thought through for itself what exactly this means...or britney, who might find the paparazzi or (star-obsessed fans or whatever else)oppressive but hasn’t thought through the conditions that create the demand for a paparazzi and star-crazed consumerism....riot police as some vague symbol for inarticulated, contemporary forms of everyday oppression. Thats pretty vague, I know. Haven’t read a book in months. riot police imagery in pop is strangely prevalent in the last few years, no? kind of strange. there’s that foo fighters video from a year or two ago, and i cant place exactly where i’ve seen it, but it turns up in ads every now and then (wasn’t there a microsoft ad recently where protesters faced off with cops in riot gear that had no text at all and just a small microsoft logo in the corner?) its as if rebellion-like so much else-is currently compressed into an unarticulated/inarticulable “feeling” (the 00s will certainly be viewed as the decade of feeling in about 20 years) and so ads can use the feeling to push any old thing on a part of the public that relates to a desire for standing up to the “system” or casting off some chain or something but has never thought through for itself what exactly this means…or britney, who might find the paparazzi or (star-obsessed fans or whatever else)oppressive but hasn’t thought through the conditions that create the demand for a paparazzi and star-crazed consumerism….riot police as some vague symbol for inarticulated, contemporary forms of everyday oppression. Thats pretty vague, I know. Haven’t read a book in months.

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