Politics
published by Retort Magazine, on April 19th, 2012
Cultural Fluff and the Death of Faggotry
by Jarryd Bartle
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Gay culture is ridiculous and you know it.
‘Plasticized android’ – those were the words used by cutthroat culture critic Camille Paglia to describe the hollow, sexless posturing of gay icon Lady Gaga.
Why is it that gay men roll around in such soulless cultural glitter? Are there are any faggots left or are we all show ponies now?
A gay mainstream has been created in the last few decades. Cultural institutions, from niche media to bars, have become propagators of gay identity.
Gone are the days of the queer intellectuals: Burroughs, Wilde, Turing and Ginsberg. A time where ones sexual difference was not celebrated in itself but considered part of a wider rebellion against sexual norms. The faggots of the past were not like the gays of today: they were rugged individualists composed of artists, activists and free thinkers.
Politics and victimhood have pushed us to identify as a group – and what a sick group we are. Despite gains in wider social acceptance, research demonstrates the bizarre pathology of gay male identity.
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Essay
published by Retort Magazine, on August 11th, 2010
Rex Fairburn
New Zealand Poet, Polemicist and Art Critic
by K R Bolton
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A R D (Rex) Fairburn was a central figure in the Golden Age of New Zealand culture. This was the period between the world wars, when an incipient nativist literary and artistic movement started to emerge that was part of the European cultural stream, but was inspired by the New Zealand landscape and the New Zealand people, and was overcoming colonial mimicking.
Fairburn was born in 1904 in modest though middle class circumstances. He was proud of being a fourth generation New Zealander related to the missionary Colenso.
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Exposed
published by Retort Magazine, on July 13th, 2010
You Are Not Authorized to See These Pictures of the Oil Spill, Citizen … Do Not Look!
The title is a parody of the fact that the government has effectively made it a felony to take pictures of oiled wildlife.
Probably the most tragic photos I have seen . . . → Read More: You Are Not Authorized…Do Not Look!
Politics
published by Retort Magazine, on July 1st, 2010
In this video, filmed at the G20 summit, the police sniff danger on the wind and pull back all their people. At about the 45 second mark can be see one of the black clad anarchists who were filmed doing the damage to corporate businesses. In fact, ALL the people who pull back . . . → Read More: Agent Provocateurs exposed at G20
