cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57405501

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“As with hit tunes and hit pictures and hit entertainments, fashion rushes in to fill the vacuum in our senses created by technological displacements. Perhaps that is why it seems to be the expression of such a colossal preference while it lasts. James Joyce gives it a key role in Finnegans Wake in his section on the Prankquean. The Prankquean is the very expression of war and aggression. In her life, clothing is weaponry: “I’m the queen of the castle and you’re the dirty rascal.” In the very opening line of Finnegans Wake — “riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s…”— Joyce thus indicates the reversal of nature that has taken place since the fall of man. It is not the world of Adam and Eve, but one in which there is priority of Eve over Adam. Clothing as weaponry had become a primary social factor. Clothing is anti-environmental, but it also creates a new environment. It is also anti- the elements and anti-enemies and anti- competitors and anti-boredom.” - Page 21, 1968 “War and Peace in the Global Village”, Marshall McLuhan

    • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I know that a large part of the Internet is now bots specifically designed to make horrible posts to create “engagement”, but there’s still a human that had to create the bot and give it it’s instructions. We don’t need those people on Earth.

      • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOP
        62·
        11 hours ago

        If you don’t know what you’re talking about why did you post this?

        How do we know what the woman in London yesterday is specifically referencing? She was at the US Embassy, so it must be Trump related?

        Her sign seems professionally designed and printed.

        • Burstar@sopuli.xyzM
          28·
          10 hours ago

          That’s my point: you are flinging shit at the wall and shrugging. What are YOU trying to say?

          • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOP
            61·
            10 hours ago

            you are flinging shit at the wall and shrugging.

            You think Canadian professor Marshall McLuhan is “shit” to fling? Canada is supporting Ukraine. I really don’t get your line of questioning here as a moderator.

              • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOP
                31·
                8 hours ago

                What am I trying to say? A woman in London yesterday was protesting Putin/Russia to support Ukraine. She is using symbolism of clothing. University of Toronto professor Marshall McLuhan described women using clothing against enemies in a 1968 book for deeper understanding of how she is fighting against Putin.