Comments on Name-Checked by Al Gore
Interesting. What was Gore's specific reference to Adorno? Did it have to do with "The Culture Industry"? It's rare to hear former statesmen evoke critical theory. Soon, he'll start doing a ventriloquist act with his penis, "Little Judith Butler."
I can't quite follow the Adorno quote. Maybe someone can sum it up in a few simpler-language sentences.
Speaking of name-checking coupled with film, my preferred theorist is excerpted in Slacker director's animating Waking Life. Andre Bazin, I believe, is the sole person featured who devoted his lifework strictly to writing about film.
Lindsay's probably going to jail, you guys need to keep up to date on things ...
Paris is already there.
@1: No, his Adorno reference was more in the horror-of-the-Third-Reich vein, a jab at ideologues and more particularly Republicans. (Here's Postman on the same quotation in an earlier speech.) But the Third Reich, we were made to understand, could not have come to power without radio.
Soon we were segueing into how many hours of television Americans watch per day and how most of TV is rot.
So let's say I wouldn't have been surprised if he's been reading "The Culture Industry."
Fun fact: During the 2000 campaign, Gore repeatedly expressed his admiration for French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Bitch, quit tryin' to bite tha scholar nigga.
I have no idea what you mean, but a good steak shouldn't need steak sauce, let alone anything like A-1...
Steve Gutenberg?
I think "red meat" in politics means pandering to the base by being highly aggressive, metaphorically savage. As in bare knuckle political attacks, serving up one's politically slain adversary raw (hence red) to your bloodthirsty hard core supporters.
Such a banquet would hardly feature any type of condiment, whether it be lowbrow A-1 steak sauce or like, I don't know, bearnaise sauce or whatever.
So it still isn't clear to me if Annie Wagner thinks Gore isn't running because his manner was professorial and statesmanlike, or if he isn't running because his criticisms of those (George W. Bush & Co.) who lack Reason are so cutting.
Regardless, the correct answer is that Gore will run, and further, he will win. My confidence in that grows with ever Stranger pundit who says otherwise, among other reasons.
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