Toplum bilimcilerin gayreti, haddi hesabı olmayan burslar, araştırmaya harcanan onca zamanı düşündüğümüzde, vergisini ödeyen halkın bundan karşılığını alıp almadığını bilmemiz gerekiyor.
Hamsterdam
Kanun icracılarının karşılaştığı sorun HBO’nun olağanüstü draması The Wire’da gösterildi. Polisseniz, uyuşturucuya ilişkin yasalarla ilgili şöyle bir problem olabilir: Uyuşturucu kullanıldığını görüyorsanız, insanlar da sizin uyuşturucu kullanıldığını gördüğünüzü görüyorsa, yasaları da uygulamıyorsanız, o zaman yasaları uygulamadığınıza tanık olan
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Bolivar’ın hiçbir biyografisinde kabızlık çektiğini okuyamazsınız. Ben onu doktor Reverend’de buldum, ama şöyle bir geçerken yazmış sadece. Kronik kabızlık için bir kaşık bilmediğim bir karışımdan ve bazı haplar verdiklerinden söz ediyor. Kronik kabızlık dediğinizde zaten adamın karakterini tanıyorsunuz. O yüzden dünyanın iyi sıçanlar ve kötü sıçanlar diye bölündüğünü söyledim.
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Okur Takip Önerileri
Vurguladığınız gibi, Yüzyıllık Yalnızlık hakkında tonlarca yazı çıktı. Bunların içinde aptalca saptamalar olduğu gibi, önemli şeyler ve bunların sonuçları da var. Fakat kitabı yazarken kendimin ilgilendiği yön üzerine hiç kimsenin yazdığını görmedim; bu da yalnızlığın dayanışmanın zıddı olduğu fikriydi. Bence kitabın özü burada yatıyor. Buendias’ın hayal kırıklığını, etraflarındaki insanların ve Macondo’nun uyandırdığı hayal kırıklıklarını birer birer bununla açıklayabiliriz. Ben burada bir siyasal anlayış yattığına inanıyorum: Dayanışmanın zıddı olarak yalnızlık siyasal bir kavramdır. Önemli de bir kavramdır. Hiç kimse bunu görmedi ya da hiç kimse bundan bahsetmedi diyeyim.
The result of the normalization of pornography in the 1980s and 1990s, through the cult of Madonna and the Internet, is that the image of what is beautiful for young women and girls has become inextricably intertwined with the sex industry. Looking like Madonna has morphed in the twenty-first century into looking like Britney Spears but the impulse, to represent prostitution, is the same. On the catwalk the values and practices of prostitution and pornography now dominate. Male designers are selling the look of sadomasochist prostitution in particular, to the rich and fashionable. In the next chapter I take a critical look at what passes for fashion and the men who create it.
The pornographizing of fashion photography in its most extreme forms may not have much effect on what women wear since not many will choose to be half-naked in their social or professional lives. However, there are ways in which it has a negative impact on women in general. It popularizes the ``slut'' and prostitute look, very short skirt, boots, piercings for young women. It makes looking as if you are in the sex industry chic and thereby helps sex industrialists by normalizing their business of the international traffic in women. The sex industry sells clothes and the fashion industry sells prostitution and pornography.
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The symbiotic relationship between fashion photography and pornography is becoming so close that it does seem likely that the arty fashion magazines which already display fashion on women who are almost naked and in just raped poses, will soon expect models to engage in actual sexual acts for fashion shots. Such a development is presaged in the work of one of the most famous fashion photographers of the moment, Terry Richardson, who is compared to Helmut Newton in his status but recognized to be even more sexually explicit in his approach. Richardson gained fame for sexualized fashion spreads in the 1990s and for epitomizing porn chic. His fashion shots for the label Katherine Hamnett, for instance, included ones ``where the models' pubic hair was visible beneath their short skirts'', and Sisley, where, memorably, ``the model Josie Moran squeezed milk from a cow's udder into her mouth'' and he has ``made Kate Moss, minus her knickers, look like a world-weary call girl”
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Şiirin uçsuz bucaksız deryasında çeşitli akımlar olduğunu ileri sürüyordu: ibnetorlar, ibneler, ibnoşlar, çılgınlar, arkacılar, tekerlekler, şen çocuklar, nonoşlar akımları. Yine de ona göre en önemlileri ibnetorlar ve ibnelerdi. Walt Whitman örneğin, ibnetor bir şairdi. Pablo Neruda ise ibne bir şairdi. William Blake, hiç kuşkusuz, ibnetordu, Octavio Paz ise ibne. Borges nonoş, yani beklenmedik bir anda ibne olabilir, yine beklenmedik bir başka zaman da cinsiyetsiz olabilirdi. Ruben Dario bir çılgındı, gerçekten de çılgınlar şahı ve paradigmasıydı.
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Normal kabul edebileceğimiz erkeklerden gelen spermlerin büyük bir kısmının şekilleri, mikroskop altında şimdiden görünür şekilde bozulmuş. Y-kromozomunun bozulmasından başka nedenlerin de katkısı bulunmakla birlikte, sperm sayıları çarpıcı şekilde düşüyor. İnsan Y-kromozomu çok uzun zamandır çürümekte ve çürümeye devam edecek; bu yaralanmaların birikmesiyle erkek fertilitesinde ilerleyen bir düşüş beklemeliyiz. Y-kromozomları birer birer yok olacak; ta ki geriye sadece bir tane kalana kadar. Sonunda o kromozom da yenik düştüğünde, erkeklerin soyu tükenecek.
Beni anlamadınız, beyefendi. Doğanızda, karakterli bir insanın temelini oluşturacak tek şey olan matematik anlayışından eser yok. Sizin içinizde bir gram matematik yok.
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If you don’t have the money to actually buy games, you have two options, said Rafal Jaki, a business development manager. “You won’t play games, or you will pirate them. But then if you turn twenty, and you start earning money, maybe you start buying games, and you turn yourself into a consumer. But if you feel that all the industry is fucking you over, why would you do that? Why would you convert when you have the money and resources to actually buy something, when you feel that there is a DLC package with [costumes] for $25, and if you buy it at GameStop you will get the blue ribbon but if you buy it somewhere else you get the red one. Why would you do that?”
This mood of universal condemnation changed in the neo-liberal 1980s and the process began by which pimps were transformed into respectable business people who could join the Rotary Club. The business of brothel prostitution was legalized and turned into a ‘market sector’ in countries like Australia, the Netherlands, Germany and New Zealand, stripping became a regular part of the ‘leisure’ or ‘entertainment’ industry, and pornography became respectable enough for corporations like General Motors to make porn channels part of their stable. Whilst a section of the industry of prostitution became legal, respectable and a profitable market sec- tor in this period, the vast majority of prostitution both within those western countries that legalized and throughout the world remained illegal and a most profitable sector for organized crime.
What my conversations with college students reveal is how conformity to porn culture is defined by young women as a free choice. I hear this mantra everywhere, yet when one digs deeper, it is clear that the idea of choice is more complicated than originally thought. To talk about women’s free choice is to enter into the tricky terrain of how much free will we really have as human beings. While we all have some power to act as the author of our own lives, we are not free-floating individuals who come into the world with a ready-made set of identities; rather, to paraphrase Karl Marx, we are social beings who construct our identities within a particular set of social, economic, and political conditions, which are often not of our own making. This is especially true of our gender identity, as gender is a social invention and hence our notion of what is “normal” feminine behavior is shaped by external forces.
A sexuality based on equality ultimately requires a society that is based on equality. While we fight for a way to define our own sexuality, we must not lose sight of the bigger picture: women still face economic, political, and legal discrimination. Porn is embedded in this wider structure, as nowhere is the practice of inequality so starkly obvious. In porn we are one-dimensional objects who want nothing more than porn sex. What we actually want is equality in all areas of our lives so that we no longer have to fear erasure, poverty, loss of reproductive rights, or men’s violence against us. As long as we have porn, we will never be seen as full human beings deserving of all the rights that men have. This is why we need to build a vibrant movement that fights for a world where women have power in and over their lives—because in a just society, there is no room for porn.
The sex acts are always successful, ending in supposed orgasm for both, and he is protected from rejection or ridicule since in porn, women never say no to men’s sexual demands, nor do they question their penis size or technique. In this world, men dispense with romantic dinners, vanilla sex, and postcoital affection and get down to the business of fucking. In porn, sex is the vehicle by which men are rendered all powerful and women all powerless; and for a short time a man gets to see what life would look like if only women unquestionably consented to men’s sexual demands.