Been thinking about trinkets in songs.

Been thinking about trinkets in songs.  I present two stellar examples, complete with youtube links. ‘In a small far room the bed is set With trinkets all surrounding Yet alone it rests, so dry it sets With souls aside abiding’ Palace Music, ‘We All, Us Three, Will Ride’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkvctVZcO4E ‘I crept into a box of [...]

Olympiss Trinkisss

including a snowglobe to freeze the heart of Walter Benjamin: thanks Sophie-trinkspotter

Orientally yours

A new blog by Karen Tam updates trinketization, but with Chinese characteristics: http://orientallyyours.tumblr.com/ An example of her interests would be this scenario below by British photographer Grace Lau, but Karen’s own opium dens and faked antiquities are treasures themselves. Website: www.karentam.ca Other Blog: Pumpkin Sauce http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2wjgh5ceh1rrpskqo3_400.png

Trinket of The Week in Iran

From:  http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/iran-offers-u-s-tiny-replica-of-lost-drone/ (thanks Rachel) January 17, 2012, 4:48 PM Iran Offers U.S. Tiny Replica of Lost Drone By ROBERT MACKEY Scale models of an American drone are now on sale in Iran. While Iran’s government has so far refused an American request to return the C.I.A. stealth drone it captured last month, on Tuesday, an Iranian company that is manufacturing [...]

Kate Murdoch’s home trinkets. Collections and dust. No time like the archive. Get rid of them!

Keeping it together, in two parts (I’ve excerpted the first part and a bit of the second, but lost all the pics which you should see). This is from Artists Talking project blog. These ‘works’ and words seem to touch elegantly on the problems, and pleasures, of trinketization. We just don’t have the time to [...]

A Spectre is haunting Europe…

Not all parties atre the same – sorry to have missed this one… [thanks Jo]

Trinketization #Libya

So, with the trajectory of a screaming scud missile, SKY News hones in on the zero-degree-point of trinketization and renders ‘The Fall of Tripoli™’ as a pantomime circus. Pleased as I am with my hats, these guys have rendered the geopolitical as farce better than SZ or KM or BBC et al. How NATO saves [...]

AK-47

Trinketization (aims): ➤ to note a certain fascination with objects has often meant an aversion to theory. ➤ take up the call of Adorno for an ‘Arcades orthodoxy’ (pace Benjamin) in that the description of objects is mediated, requiring a theoretical contextualization of things. ➤ take up case studies, trinkets, objects, material culture in a way that [...]

Politicians, Cops, Judges and Journalists don’t wear jeans: Uniformity v. Levis.

OK, it is ironic since blue jeans are also a uniform, its commercial pap from a megacorp, it is like saying the real thing is coke and meaning the fizzy drink, it is a trinketized and aestheticized cash-in on the atmosphere of dissent in present-day London, and it is an advert that has already been [...]

BeePicture

Also: http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/do-bee-do-bee-do/

Department of DIY – UfSO

Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Prof. Expectantby UfSOLondon Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Crisis Centreby UfSOLondon Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Dr. John Effraby UfSOLondon Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Platoby UfSOLondon Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Bob Edwardsby UfSOLondon Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Poetryby UfSOLondon Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Karl Boxerby UfSOLondon Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Dr. Whyby UfSOLondon [...]

To do this week (note to self)

Monday 6th – Unkettling Education – teach-in Goldsmiths 10am-9pm: See here. Tuesday 7th - The Humanities and the Idea of the University’: Tuesday 7 December 2010, 11am-6pm, Saloon (M004), Ground Floor, Mansion Building, Middlesex University, Trent Park campus, Bramley Road, London N14 4YZ. (not sure if I can get to this one, but it looks good. Details on Middlesex [...]

Mumia Abu Jamal

US.: New danger to the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal 22 November 2010. A World to Win News Service. Following is an edited excerpt from an article by C. Clark Kissinger that appeared in the 21 November 2010 issue of Revolution, newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. The largest courtroom of the federal Third Circuit [...]

trinketization again (book note)

What we mean by trinketization is also an injunction: to contextualize objects and memes in social and global political significance and ramification; to theorize and interpret critically and endlessly, as if it mattered. No to mere taxonomy that substitutes for thinking; no to genealogies of already codified and congealed proper names; no to the rictus grin of erudite but [...]

Notebook – questions…

Questions for Bonnie: – are the cuts proposed by the Con Dem dalliance as incoherent as some have said? Or are they the rabid response of an ill-cooked coalition of opportunist troglodytes? – Or, rather,  is this a specific move/set of moves on the part of neo-liberal capital (structural adjustment programmes for all!)? – are the [...]

The £100 Pound Shop

Trinketization is clearly escalating over the river in Dalston, and I can’t say I disapprove. I have said before: Shopping is civil war. Here is evidence. But then, its choice, so do head out to support this venture where you can (perhaps by shoplifiting?) Point your browser here: http://www.onehundredpoundshop.com/our_promise_to_you.html (thanks to Joel McKim for discovering [...]

Dr Cristobal

Dr Cristobal Bianchi and his examiners (Irit Rogoff and Pavel Buchler). Congratulations.

Time Wasting = Money??

I went to a training session that was supposed to train me up on research grant account management this afternoon, advertised as compulsory for PIs (principal investigators). It was a crock. The system is hysterically named ‘Aggresso’. [there are little gnome-like accountants in a room somewhere laughing at the havoc they have wreaked]. I am [...]

trinkets

from Doctor Craig Smith.

Orson

Notes for lecture one: How to start reading that rich book that is Marx’s Capital, of which an immense, even monstrous, accumulation of commentary on the Marxist mode of literary production appears to have already shaped its elementary forms? For all the interest in Marx, in the past and renewed today, it is at least [...]