Empire: Hardt responds

[Brad Mayer]

"wanker otaku"???  O shit, I couldn't resist.  Is this rather odd
combination of a famous British vulgarity with an overly polite word for
'home', some kind of obscure slang I missed out on last time I was in
Sydney?

No really, what the hell does it mean?

-Brad
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Robert Redmond" <dredmond at efn.org>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: Empire: Hardt responds


> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > The Post-Socialist & Post-Social Democratic Era = the Third Way = the
> > Progress of the Empire = Globalization = an apolitical American boy
> > growing up watching cheap Japanese Anime, playing video games,
> > masturbating with the help of cartoon damsels in distress.
>
> Oh please. The only equation I see here is FLSHM = FRRHM (Far Left
> Sectarian Hyper Moralism equals Far Right Religious Hyper
> Moralism). Japanese anime and the videogame culture are complex,
> multifaceted forms, with lots of junk and some genuinely stellar works of
> art, worth ferreting out and analyzing. Conversely, the modernist film
> canon is just that: a canon, the select few works out of thousands of
> crappy, horrid B-grade productions. But hey, who needs concrete analysis
> of the totality, when we can sneer at wanker otaku instead!
>
> -- Dennis
>
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