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	<title>The Sleepwalk of the West &#187; Postmodernity</title>
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		<title>Fun With Moral Vacuums</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC&#8217;s moral relativism is epitomised by this joke on Radio 4&#8242;s The Now Show (iPlayler, 12:23): &#8220;What&#8217;s the difference between nuclear proliferation in Iran, and nuclear proliferation in the US?&#8221; (Prolonged silence.) &#8220;Exactly!&#8221; Oh, isn&#8217;t that good. Ha. Unbridled hilarity aside, what is the difference? Let&#8217;s see&#8230; one wants to use military might to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgiving It All Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coventry Cathedral is one of those rare examples of successful Modernism, whose appeal transcends architectural fashion. Like another successful example &#8211; the Barbican Estate &#8211; it rose from the devastation of the German Luftwaffe, and now overlooks its previous incarnation, a crumbling, unrestored symbol of 20th Century cataclysm. As a result of this traumatic history, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Horses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Pop Life exhibition at Tate Modern: Andy Warhol claimed &#8220;Good business is the best art.&#8221; Tate Modern brings together artists from the 1980s onwards who have embraced commerce and the mass media to build their own &#8216;brands&#8217;. Hmm. I was under the misconception that &#8220;good business&#8221; was Coke, Microsoft, De Beers, Haliburton, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>500 Pages Of Nothing</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/10/500-pages-of-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cracked. I just had to do it. Desperate, to cling to something tangible, to some proof that it hadn&#8217;t been a demonic prank, or glimpse into the echoing abyss&#8230; I bought the catalogue for the Voids exhibition. Now the 500 page black hole sits there on my table, inert, ignoring me. Gingerly approaching the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camille Paglia</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/camille-paglia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t paid attention to Camille Paglia for about fifteen years. I suppose I had the impression she was a cultural-theory loud-mouth that one could ignore without peril. Mind you, I don&#8217;t really watch television. Anyway, I&#8217;m wrong. These three short clips of her speaking on the degradation of academic literary studies spurred me to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Labour&#039;s nemesis: the BNP</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/06/new-labour-deserves-the-bnp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cost of liberal democracy/capitalism is that there are economic losers. &#8220;Old&#8221; Labour was about tackling class, i.e. the injustice of grossly unequal income distributions. Even if Socialism&#8217;s not your thing, there&#8217;s still no reason why capitalism can&#8217;t be forced to accept corrective or attenuating measures such as social safety nets, meaningful regulation, exponentially progressive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postmodernism Generator</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/05/postmodernism-generator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 00:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t done so already, the latest article at Communications from Elsewhere is a must-read. Dense, but worth the effort: “Truth is part of the stasis of reality,” says Baudrillard; however, according to Buxton, it is not so much truth that is part of the stasis of reality, but rather the absurdity, and eventually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theories change. So what.</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/04/theories-change-so-what/</link>
		<comments>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/04/theories-change-so-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Myth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The attendants of ‘cafés philo’ in Paris &#8211; I can only assume &#8211; offer a representative sample of how people think, at least there. I can&#8217;t help noticing some disturbingly popular ‘memes’ (I don’t like the word but admit it is useful, especially the connotation that it refers to ideas whose value lies in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Less Is Not More</title>
		<link>http://stephanfowler.com/2009/03/more-less-is-not-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the exhibition Vides (Voids) at the Pompidou Centre, Paris: A quite exceptional event, &#8220;Vides&#8221; (Voids) is a retrospective of empty exhibitions since that of Yves Klein in 1958. In almost a dozen rooms of the National Museum of Modern Art, it assembles in a totally original manner exhibitions that showed absolutely nothing&#8230; Despair besets [...]]]></description>
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