Lefties 9: This will succeed through its success

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Is everyone on Twitter now?

soph - I think you're following me, not sure if I'm following you - I've lost the plot a bit with Twitter names, MN names, RL names!

Will go and have a look ...

is idris stringer bell?

omar was on CSI tonight.

get yer popcorn out on my deportation thread.

i sort of knew that was going to happen tbh.

... and when people change their names it makes it even harder!

Yes I'm following you and you're following me, soph.

I just started a blog thingy. First post is about the Milibands (warning: it's, erm, a bit 'lite')

how can you call something that uses terms like 'catastasis' and 'tropes' lite?

when I wasn't thinking 'what the fuck does that word mean?' I was loving it...nice one!

Ah thanks Soph!

Wow! Way to go, onebat!

Well with Niles and Frasier we are very much in a 90s groove BIWI

Too true.

So tell me. What's the verdict on what the last government really got up to with their finances? I'm increasingly annoyed about the way it's being reported in the press, that they wantonly and knowingly commissioned spending 'sprees' in the last days of government. Is this really true, or just yet more mis-reporting? (Although front page story on the Guardian as well, talking about civil servants making official complaints, which would suggest there's something in the story.)

And the supposed jokey letters left behind, e.g from Liam Byrne, about having no money left?

I'm disappointed by such behaviour, if it really true.

What think you?

BIWI I find it slightly surprising that they only made complaints when they knew their will be a new administration. I do not buy into this last minute spending spree. They were in purdah anyway. When I worked in the public sector (I mean I do now, but it is different), we really had to lie low and do next to nothing besides daily operation during purdah.

Sophable Idris Elba is Stringer Bell.

1. He learnt economics (in The Wire),
2. is capable of running a huge, complicated and violent organisation and
3. turn them into profit
4. and he's got the temper (in Luther).

Sorry to be childish

1. and he is very photogenic and telegenic.

I cannot believe I missed Omar in CSI.

Onebatmother I like your blog

Ha! Very good, onebatmother.

I just created hideous domino effect when I pulled out a book to look up catastasis. Books fell, heavy slate souvenir-of-wales bookend fell, knocking over souvenir-of-spain guitar.

I always have to look up words like catastasis and ehthymeme and what-have-you. Lit analysis seems to reify every move a dramatist can possibly make. It multiplies nouns like those Victorians who invented collective nouns for every possible collection.

And it is truly the mark of a wanker to use them Eleison Sorry about the collapse of the library.

It is wanking of the best sort elevated to dizzying heights, and very funny.

eleison. Whatever you do, don't look up apocalypse, or conflagration or anything like that.

Love your blog onebat.

Don't anyone try to google ehthymeme. It is a typo. Shd be enthymeme. Prize to anyone who can work it casually into a post.

Sorry that was me accidentally in disguise. Not numbers.

Eleison - My offering:

"It is an open question as to whether the less formally hierarchical information-spaces generated on the internet will produce greater or fewer enthymimetic discourses. On the one hand, there is, clearly, the tendency for a gathering together of enthymeme-type statements, possibly "corroborated" with reference to personal (that is "virtual" in this context) experience. One may observe that these statements gain adherents, and "snowball", accreting veracity by sheer force of numbers. On the other, the internet makes available the insertion of easily reached, statistic-based "evidence", whose effect is often deflationary."

Or

"Ffs, This whole argument about your dolee neighbour's plasma screen is based on a f**ing enthymeme."

Oh splendid. I love 'accreting veracity', that is a wonderful phrase.

Oh vg, animula

I wonder whether MN is a formally or less formally hierarchical information-space? It certainly tends towards the enthymimetic, discourse-wise