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Oh, of course. That’s what Sonia and I meant by “cultural landscape!”

“Must be grateful for small mercies like these!”

Lucky you guys.

“Dunno about Malaysia…but here in Singapore,”

Sorry, I said Malaysia because I thought you were from there. My bad

I don’t know about Malaysia, but here she is EVERYWHERE. I mean, EVERYWHERE. Mass pop culture has an amazing way of asserting itself everywhere, no matter how much you try to avoid means: TV, radio, anything. For a year I didn’t have a TV out of personal preference, and on the radio, I tried to listen to news. But lo and behold, she makes it to political radio talk shows (because here, entertainment is news and news is entertainment). And you end up getting sick of her. When a presence is so ubiquitous, someone feels impelled to address it. Sure, there are a lot more vacuous people out there- but they don’t garner the spotlight as much as she does.

That’s ironic because you and the writer of that article help to focus the spotlight on her all the more. She isn’t the only stupid vacuous rich spoilt girl in the world and she certainly doesn’t have to ‘stand ‘ for anything , not more than any other stupid badly behaved MALE celebrity- her detractors reveal more of themselves than anything else. I hardly like Paris Hilton but she simply doesn’t figure in my universe and i don’t stay up nights worrying worrying about her pernicious influence on anything or anyone.

Your posts made me feel like I was back in grad school

Troubling thing is, the more someone bullshitted, the more people would nod their heads in agreement, as if something earth shatteringly profound was being voiced, and the heavens were opening up to let the glorious light shine onto the podium.

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From that Salon article I linked to (http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/12/11/paris_hilton/index1.html):

“In some ways, Hilton’s presence on the celebrity scene is troubling because of the suspicion that she is a straw woman for all those who like to think of young women as dumb floozies. We keep her there, as a mortifying symbol of American womanhood — yes, she is famous overseas — in part because she is a satisfying punching bag for anyone with women issues….

It’s easy to suspect that it is because she offers gratifyingly inappropriate opportunities to lash out against femininity and sexuality (outbursts to which few object, because there is literally no one who wants to defend her) that she has remained famous at all.”

I’m sorry I keep fixating on Paris Hilton, it’s because I can’t stand her. But as Sonia says, it’s the cultural landscape; the stage is already set for the likes of her to be under the limelight.

http://www.dccomics.com/mad/

The unsynthesized manifold! Sure but what if the art of opinion itself becomes the art object. Would this not subvert the whole notion, replicating what we try to solve replacing it with a meta discourse involving multi hydra headed elements. As such this rhizomous stream of many discourses would dissolve into multiple circular considerations around endless points each searching for a centre but never finding an alternative to the first theory. Would this just be a disaster for this post capitalist endeavour to reach beyond it’s binary opposites and in fact
Would just ressurect Aristotle’s metaphysics of presence defying the challenge to Western notions of duality.

Clairwil
You can not be beautiful and intelligent its against the rules.

(with apologies to Rogets)