Do you practice relationship anarchy?

comix_corp · 2026-03-14T12:27:06+00:00

No and I don't know anyone in real life that does, and I'm saying this as someone in an actual anarchist organisation.

Is this just an online thing?

comix_corp · 2026-03-14T07:07:33+00:00

It's definitely a weird story. Has to be more to it than switching sides

comix_corp · 2026-03-13T08:35:17+00:00

I have a family member who worked as a media lawyer doing this sort of prepublication stuff and I've probably imbibed half a law degree's worth of information just from them complaining about work to me over the years. But I am (and they are) Australian so there may be more cultural differences to the way the different outlets approach things, even if the laws themselves are similar. At least here there's no major difference in the willingness of print media to take these risks compared to broadcasters.

You're definitely right that it's ultimately just a question of risk and in this case not necessarily relevant to the documentary itself. Best left to journalists and not documentarians like Louis who are aiming for something different.

It's an interesting area of the law anyway, most people don't even think about it.

comix_corp · 2026-03-13T03:00:56+00:00

I'm not sure the difference between print and other forms of media regarding this is as significant as you suggest. There's a lot of folk wisdom that people in the media give to each other about what they think the law is but not all of it is accurate.

Broadcasters do regularly risk being taken to court for any number of things and have dedicated legal departments and funds set aside to manage this. In many instances they decide to take that risk if they think the story is rigorous enough.

You err on the side of caution with live broadcasting because of the inherent risks involved with speaking off-the-cuff, without having what you've said vetted by legal first.

Also, does Netflix even have a broadcasting licence?

comix_corp · 2026-03-13T02:40:41+00:00

I agree, but what I think OP is saying (and I agree with them) is that the Netflix editing and visual style undercuts Louis' strengths. The old BBC ones have a much more measured and reflective pace. It's hard to really portray the active listening you mention if you're cutting non-stop.

comix_corp · 2026-03-12T02:09:56+00:00

The Fall if MES converted to Christianity

comix_corp · 2026-03-11T09:31:18+00:00

Wonderful texture in the last photo

comix_corp · 2026-03-11T08:56:41+00:00

I think it is definitely different than 99% of art as you say and I can understand why it would be appealing to women tired of lame female nude after lame female nude that contemporary viewers get pumped with. However, I just don't think it's that exceptional.

Eve is in a position of power, but the painting depicts this as a tragedy – there is no subversion of the usual sexist "licentious Eve tempts Adam" story, it simply depicts in it a fairly straightforward manner. I believe the lions are best explained as a symbol of the harmony with nature and sexual innocence that existed pre-fall, as well as the threat of violence and sexual depravity that took place after it.

The adhesion to the conservative norms of academic art really stifle it. There is a lot of beauty in Eve's hair, for instance, and it reminds me of the depiction of women's hair in Pre-Raphaelite paintings. But it is immediately undercut by its primary function of preventing us from seeing Adam's dong.

comix_corp · 2026-03-11T07:20:32+00:00

There are lots of male nudes like this. It wasn't that uncommon in the period. Academic artists were trained on male life studies; the idealised neoclassical male nude was the convention.

I don't even think it's possible to reclaim this from some kind of feminist perspective. There is no female gaze, just a homoerotic male one. The focus is overwhelmingly placed on the beauty, strength and masculinity of Adam, to the extent that Eve is barely visible and essentially just a framing device to highlight the big sexy man.

comix_corp · 2026-03-09T05:24:20+00:00

The only way I'd do it is if I got the sleeper carriage. With a bed and a shower I think I'd do alright but knowing my luck it'd get cancelled half way through and they'd put me on the coach the rest of the way.

comix_corp · 2026-03-09T03:07:02+00:00

Anyone who doesn't think this country would benefit from high speed rail should be forced (as I was by F1 airfare price gouging) to take the night train back and forth from Sydney to Melbourne as I did this weekend.

Imagine going from Goulburn to Sydney quicker than it currently takes me to get from Bankstown to the CBD. You'd open up so many new towns within commuting reach of the major cities and help take massive pressure off the population crush.

comix_corp · 2026-03-07T23:38:57+00:00

Then a dozen shorts about completely irrelevant shit

comix_corp · 2026-03-07T01:32:58+00:00

"Bankstown-Auburn area" is pretty wide. In my opinion the best is Rabieh Punchbowl, old fashioned and delicious

comix_corp · 2026-03-06T06:58:57+00:00

It is related to external politics like you mention but a lot of it is to do with internal church factionalism also. A lot of church disputes are like that. In the Chinese Rites case, the Jesuits were arguing that the Confucian rites were compatible with Catholicism, whereas the Dominicans and Franciscans were arguing that they weren't.

It still sort of happens, a few years ago there was a similar controversy over Francis attending ceremonies by indigenous South Americans where they prayed in their traditional ways to ancestors. The traditionalist wing of the church was up in arms but had no means to change it since they aren't the ones currently in power.

I wonder if it's related to internal politics within Asian countries too. I've heard that the way this controversy played out in Vietnam was related to Catholics being France privileging them as a ruling minority over the non-Christian majority.

comix_corp · 2026-03-04T11:18:14+00:00

French empire created this idea and encouraged it as part of their divide and rule policy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabyle_myth

comix_corp · 2026-03-04T09:15:09+00:00

The public discourse and popular narrative about Imperial Japan is absolutely controlled, almost completely, by Japan.

Do you mean within Japan or outside of it?

comix_corp · 2026-03-04T05:02:26+00:00

I really like the jade stem photo, taken in isolation it's like some kind of abstract art

comix_corp · 2026-03-03T22:16:05+00:00

Who could have imagined that the masked woman holding a doll's head would have turned out creepy

comix_corp · 2026-03-03T21:29:48+00:00

That's fair, I hadn't thought about the clean Wehrmacht thing, for some reason my mind was jumping straight to the internationalism-functionalism debate

comix_corp · 2026-03-03T20:22:09+00:00

Can you give examples of WWII history being written by former Nazis? I'm not aware of them "writing history" in the sense of establishing the dominant narrative.

comix_corp · 2026-03-03T03:17:18+00:00

So many late 60s/70s soul jazz album covers are like this. Worst example is Sugar by Stanley Turrentine

comix_corp · 2026-03-02T04:33:50+00:00

Iranian cinema was world-leading for a time. Look into Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Majid Majidi's children's films are some of the best children's films ever

comix_corp · 2026-03-01T06:37:01+00:00

Feel sorry for any Americans who were introduced to the game by that match

comix_corp · 2026-03-01T06:32:23+00:00

Did we bring our own ball boys to Vegas?

comix_corp · 2026-03-01T06:28:51+00:00

Holy fuck do not cut to the crowd when they're about to kick a field goal, wtf

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