Briefly, Links (23/01/10)
Genevieve Valentine is a writer and essayist, working in the SF area. She also has an obsession with Catherine Cookson TV movies, where high levels of snark are to be found – although this mainly seems to come out on her Livejournal blog.
Zed Shaw is an important man in the Ruby on Rails world, but more interestingly he’s a short-tempered essayist on elements of internet culture who has no truck with shibboleths. His blog might occasionally throw up a few nice pieces, but it’s his essays that are really interesting.
Mark Fisher has been linked to by a few people whom I enjoy reading, and I just finished his book. Thankfully, for a heavyweight leftist political tract, it was really short and kept referencing SF.
The Meat License Proposal by John O’Shea – imagine if you had to take the equivalent of a driving test to eat meat? One of the projects that, when I describe it, always has people volunteering to take a meat license test, where they would learn to kill and prepare their chosen meat.
The AV Festival is back again, with various installations and talks across the North-East. Some things are harder to locate than others on the sprawling website, and some feral trade coffee sounds good, but is this an open workshop or is it something else?
Hi Pete – thanks for linking to the project.
Just looking at one of your earlier posts regarding the licence agreement stickers which pop up on software disks ( http://bit.ly/7SBbqI )
and it made me think of something which came up on The Meat Licence Proposal blog a while back about the idea of a End User Licence for Meat Products – something like:
“By opening this packet you indicate the you are comfortable with killing animals and would be willing to undertake tests to comfirm this, should a UK Meat Licencing Law be enacted.”
or
“By opening this packet you indicate the your complicity in the industrialised slaughter of animals”
What do you think?
(here’s the original post: http://bit.ly/5pLsxH )
P.S. a Google Image Search for “licence agreement stickers” throws your picture up #2!
Google image search fame – at last!
What you’re suggesting sounds a lot like the sort of thing that the Adbusters magazine/movement was doing. It also sounds a bit close to PETA-style folks…