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Comment on Richard Foreman’s “Old Fashioned Prostitutes” at the Public Theater by guavapuree

guavapuree — Thu, 09 May 2013 19:23:32 +0000

Yes-looking at one’s watch is a perfect example of time made physical and heavy! The viewer obviously knows that time is going slowly and has to check a physical marker of time in order to escape this feeling and fall back into the safety of the work/entertainment dyad.

I didn’t investigate whether the content of his plays have anything to do with bringing about this feeling, I’m still unsure. when I started writing this I was going to write about how Freudian all the imagery and characters were, in an almost embarrasing way, but the writing took me somewhere else– The play is about desire and memory and also perhaps procreation I suspect? I don’t really know, perhaps for another post. . . thanx 4 the comment & happy birthday

Comment on Richard Foreman’s “Old Fashioned Prostitutes” at the Public Theater by amoorabeerce

amoorabeerce — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:47:56 +0000

When I saw this play last week there was a woman in front of me watching her watch and complaining to her husband about how she couldn’t take it and needed to go. She was driving me crazy, but also there was something perfect about having that as part of the experience, and I think you hit on it well. Also, even though you didn’t spend much time here talking about the content of the play, what you did say was pitch perfect. Fun! Did you see this?: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/nyregion/richard-foreman-still-dreams-of-paris.html?_r=0

Comment on 21st Century Capitalism on stage at the Public Theater by Richard Foreman’s “Old Fashioned Prostitutes” at the Public Theater | Guava Purée

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:25:20 +0000

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Comment on Badiou: The Racism of Intellectuals (translation) by What is fascism? « Idiot Joy Showland

What is fascism? « Idiot Joy Showland — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:11:25 +0000

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Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:20:14 +0000

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Comment on “Irenic” sketches by The Drowned World | Guava Purée

The Drowned World | Guava Purée — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:58:32 +0000

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Comment on Martha’s Vineyard by Tom Cod

Tom Cod — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:24:23 +0000

OK, what I meant to say was, perhaps you could explain this, if not in plain English, then in a manner that is more understandable. Thanks.

Comment on Martha’s Vineyard by guavapuree

guavapuree — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:11:41 +0000

The point about a service proletariat catering to the super-rich is a good one–And David Harvey has mentioned that the phenomenon of widespread use of domestic labor, housestaff in 19th century England has been understudied from an economic or Marxist perspective. There may be other places Marx mentions “luxury” commodities and those who work on them (and those as he mentions that become sort of luxury commodities themselves as servants), but I think the quote from Volume 2 is apropos and hardly alien to the worker’s movement as it describes the effect of a crisis (and boom) on luxury workers.

I kind of like your metaphor of taking the commentary off the rails as I find there is an excess of “on the rails” analysis that fails to integrate the deep forests of theoretical commitment into a speedy and smooth transportation.

And I am not a grad student, although I play one on TV!

Comment on Martha’s Vineyard by Tom Cod

Tom Cod — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 05:06:07 +0000

You need to unpack or deconstruct this a little more. I get that Brazilian immigrants have become part of the service proletariat catering to the super-rich of Martha’s Vineyard as workers have done for for decades going back to the Civil War in places like Newport, R.I. The obscure “expert” references to Capital with reified inside baseball references to Dept I and Dept II take this commentary off the rails after a promising start with its reference to Melville to where the commentary becomes a graduate student caricature of itself that is alien to the workers movement.