Monday, 12 December 2011

Grinderman Split

Nick Cave has an announced the end of Grinderman at the Meredith Music Festival in Victoria. According to reports from down under, Cave told the 12,000 strong crowd "That's it for Grinderman. It's over," before apparently adding "See you all in another ten years when we'll be even older and uglier." It's surely be a sad thing that we'll never again see Nick Cave screaming "TIPPYTOETIPPYTOE", or Warren Ellis spitting in the air so it lands on his own face, or witness Martin Casey herding bogan basslines, or get to speculate on whether Jim Sclavunos is working on Bad Seeds of Grinderman by the length of his beard. But this demise, if it is confirmed, is perhaps right: that this bawdy group had a brilliant, filthy two album stand, before disappearing priapic and brawling into the night seems entirely appropriate. Grinderman were one of the fiercest and finest live groups of recent times, and we'll miss them.
@'The Quietus'

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Digital Sexuality

Woman’s functionality cannot be classified along one main dimension such as reproduction. Woman’s sexuality is not purely a catalyst for encouraging reproduction. Woman’s sexuality has more to do with pleasure than reproduction.
To discuss and even to have to ask for the freedom for abortion is humiliating and ridiculous. To woman, it’s self-evident that no-one or none of the laws should constrain her right to use her body as she wishes.
In the analogue world, religious societies forced their members to increase the population in order to produce foot soldiers to fight on behalf of God. In addition, after the first industrial revolution, capitalist countries increased their populations for the sake of cheap labour. İn the digital world, there is no need to increase the population of men and women.
Woman’s body is more complex and sophisticated in design than one-dimensionally minded man. The vectorial sum of emotions, desires and perceptions related to the senses, and the analysing and synthesising capability of woman, is not well studied by men’s science. It is also neglected by religions. By underestimating the complexity of woman’s body, religious-minded man considers woman’s body to be a reproduction factory. Woman’s body comprises both the reproduction factory and the labourer within.
In the digital world women will decide, for themselves, how to use their bodies without having to take account of men’s dictates and laws. So women are the only ones who will decide whether or not to have children. It won’t be their husbands or lovers or fathers or the law-makers or the moral arbiters or those who speak for God, who decide. Having a child won’t be the ‘natural’ result of sexual activity.
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