Reading Russell Brand Through Foucault and Baudrillard

We all know the Foucauldian Dominating Discourse of Media Interviewing. It is framed and the interviewee who is pitching something joins the interviewers in their frame.

NOT RUSSELL BRAND.

At the end when he brings in Manning and Snowden as whistle blowers on US torture he imposes a fake interview format by framing them into the Discourse of opposition, of polemics, a Discourse of Domination with intent to inflame, incite opposite viewpoints, to destroy a rational reasonable Discourse that might expose the US government.

This is a video whereby the interviewee takes control of the frame, induces anxiety in the interviewers who have lost control, and whose Dominating language is exposed and unpacked. It leaves them fumbling like freshman because they have realized their prompt cards are masks dissembling the fact that they are "empty" of meaning.

The media here has been pushed to excess to the edge of the abyss, given a little shove over and it commits suicide all by itself.

A BAUDRILLARDIAN TECHNIQUE OF IMPLOSION

Manning and Snowden and Assange are being persecuted, threatened with exposing secrets of the US (well yes our torture is supposed to be a secret) and their treatment, future punishment is as torturous as the torture they are exposing.

They are being threatened for exposing the simulation of protection of Americans, for the Debordian SPECTACLE of a justice that no longer exists in the US.

Rob Pattinson KIDNAPS BERNIE, Kristen's Dog When He Drives Away In His Pickup Loaded With Stuff!

Pattinson Kidnaps Bernie, Kristen's Dog In Broad Daylight In Front of Paps

Bernie's ears are down showing how unhappy she is

Pattinson's Pick Up Filled With Stuff

Pattinson leaves Stewart's house with his pick up full of stuff and KIDNAPS HER DOG BERNIE! Sources say Pattinson didn't want his dog Bear to be lonely for Bernie as they are good friends, so he stole Stewart's dog when he left. Sources say Kristen was looking frantically all over the house because she couldn't find Bernie. Stewart called the police and was presently making posters to pin up around the neighborhood of Los Feliz where she and Pattinson both own homes.

Now that Kristen has seen the pap pics of Rob driving away in his truck with Bernie she is  in a rage.

Friends say Kristen has been crying ever since she missed Bernie and couldn't find her.She never suspected Rob would do such a terrible thing to her. Friends say she has called the police and will press charges on Rob for kidnapping as kidnapping is a Federal Offense. She plans to ask for maximum charges and maximum punishment for kidnapping. (Capital punishment and life imprisonment are punishments for kidnapping.)

Here is the video of the story from Huff Post -  posted on Gossip Cop -  another very fine media exposure site - that renown newspaper of great repute. It's excellence for critical reporting of high profile news employing the strictest of ethical standards is applauded by all professionals in the media profession. HERE

http://www.gossipcop.com/robert-pattinson-moves-out-kristen-stewart-house-pics-photos-truck-dogs-moved-split-breakup-bags/#comment-904448165 (paste in your browser if the link doesn't work)

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A Cavalier History of Situationism: An Interview with McKenzie Wark

MW: I write in The Spectacle of Disintegration about 

Debord’s widow Alice Becker-Ho’s work on "gypsy" or rather 

Romani language as being the source of underworld cant or 

slang or jargon. Slang not in the sense of how it turns up in 

hip-hop, but in terms of ways of both concealing and stating 

at the same time. It’s a  kind of cliché that we live in this 

culture of over-exposure in which, if you even attempt to 

secrete part of yourself, you’ll just draw more 

attention—from 

companies as well as from law enforcement. But I think there 

are ways of stating things that are intelligible for 

"those who 

are in the know," to use a Becker-Ho phrase. Ways 

of being 

public that aren’t quite what they seem. It reminds me 

of 

Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. We now 

know that “earnest” was late 19^th-Century slang for 

homosexual. So that strikes me as kind of useful, that you 

can occupy a place in the disintegrating spectacle but 

not 

quite be what you seem. And that struck me as being kind 

of 

the last space available. ‘Cause if you try and do a withdrawal 

thing like the Tarnac Nine, it will get you arrested. And who 

really wants to be Žižek? 

There’s only one at a time, 

occupying a space in the disintegrating 

spectacle in a certain 

way. 

Do you get now what Rob's place in The 

disintegrating spectacle is? Do you see 

what he is revealing and concealing,

MW: What I learned from the comrades in the labor movement back in the day is: always assume you could be under surveillance but not that you are. There’s a certain vanity in assuming you are. So all of your statements need to be able to pass muster. 

Rob in his truck is assuming he is under surveillance. He is concealing and revealing at the same time,but only to those in the know. Are you in the know?

 It’s a sort of partial invisibility to create a different kind of attention for different people.

Anyone can "inherit" the spirit of the Situationists.

Don't hate the tabloids! Fuck with 

them!Have fun! 

The Petraeus Affair is DETERRENCE for Hurricane Sandy

The Petraeus Affair The Tabloid People Magazine Dec 3 2012

At this point in time, Petraeus is the head of the CIA. He used to be general in head of the forces in Iraq. But I am interested because of a "source" I know. 

From time to time I am in Lenexa Kansas. My friend there volunteers at a thrift store run by elderly people and volunteers. They package food pantry items in boxes, give out free food, free shoes, and always there is a large bin with lots of clothes in it for free. You just have to wade through the depth of it. Sometimes I talk to a middle aged Iraqi woman there. We have had conversations about how they hate Saddam but what can they do. And then the war which upsets her because she has a son there working for the US forces. She tells me one day that he is a translator for Petraeus. When I see her a few months later she tells me her son is dead, assassinated. She said it was all Petraeus's fault.

"Why," I ask.
"Because Petraeus was on TV and my son was in front of the cameras with him. That was his death sentence."
"I see, " I say. "It was like painting a bull's eye on him."
"Yes," she says.

But her tragedy is just beginning. According to Moslem law, when a woman becomes a widow with young children, the children are returned to the father's parents. I shiver in horror and say so. But she tells me that is the custom. And then I think that is not so bad. The widow will not be encumbered with fatherless children, and will be able to marry again. She is in a country where single women must be married to survive. A woman there will have no way to support herself and her children, no way to feed, clothe and shelter them. She must have a man, a father. Another man will not accept her children as he wants his own. So I understand.

But this is where the tragedy begins, as the US forces will not allow these grandchildren to emigrate. She cannot get them out so she and her husband can take care of them. They are in limbo in a war zone. Her other son is with her and he is retarded - tarde is late in Latin and re means again and again - so he is always late in his development. This is so much better than mentally challenged. She and her husband must bathe and dress him, change his diapers, and she is a heavy set woman but small and this is a great burden. She is now weighed down by misery.

I say to her, "But Petraeus must have known it was dangerous for your son to be in front of the cameras on TV. Why did he do it?"
She shrugs. "Who knows what these Americans do and why they do it."

I am thinking that he is a stupid man, a very stupid man. 

Now this is what a real fucking source is, readers of tabloids. A glimpse into Petraeus you would otherwise never have seen. A man who puts his translator in front of a camera for TV and exposes him as an American accomplice, a traitor.

Innocent Holly on West Point graduation day 1974.

Smokin' Hot and Totally Toned Paula Broadwell

Here he is in his dress uniform on graduation day from West Point in 1974. With his girlfriend Holly, the daughter of a 4 Star General. How convenient for his career as she would become his wife. Sweet isn't she. A real early pre-Elvis 1950's sweetheart. Brought up in an authoritarian military household, preparation for assuming the same role as her mother. But it's the mid 1970's and she is innocent, shy, and young Petraeus is the handsome young man with his good looking boy next door looks. Perfect match. 

Along comes Paula Broadwell embedded with the military in Iraq to write General Petraeus's biography for her PhD dissertation, interestingly titled ALL IN.

Holly Patraeus  holds the Bible for CIA swearing in still looking like 1950's grown old.

Petraeus then gets sworn into the CIA as its head. Gee someone who was so dumb he exposed his translator to cameras and got him assassinated now head of the CIA. And as it turns out can't even fuck around carefully enough to be discreet about whom he fucks around with. Paula Broadwell, it seems, sees that he is interested and flirting with Jill Kelley and starts playing hard ball as she has been having a long affair with the subject of her biography, for her PhD dissertation of course.

Did she plan the whole thing to coincide with the publishing of her Petraeus biography, with its pun title ALL IN? I bet it sells a lot of copies now.

Yes, he got ALL IN eh

Holly Petraeus after 38 years of marriage

Did he get ALL IN Paula? And then it seems he got caught up in two socialite sisters doing liaison work with the social scene in Tampa with the military, playing and flirting with two generals: Petraeus and Allen. But Jill Kelley and her husband start receiving strange emails. They feel stalked. So Jill Kelley turns them in to an FBI "friend" and then the fun starts. The FBI drags on it but eventually it heats up, and becomes the next big story.

Did my acquaintance's son know too much and did he receive "careless" treatment because he knew too much?

DETERRENCE is a Baudrillardian term. A Debordian SPECTACLE is manufactured by the media that becomes a mask occluding meaning. What else was going on at the same time? Why Hurricane Sandy of course. Our tragic warning of the consequences of global warming. A tragic scene with real people suffering real tragedy while the US's media is concerned with where Petraeus is putting his dick to get it wet.

And we have a stupid stupid man as head of the CIA who can't see how he was endangering his translator - unless he really did of course - and can't keep three women straight and away from each other's knowing and HE IS THE HEAD OF THE SECRET CIA? Gimme a break!

Do you feel safer now knowing they appoint someone like this? The only really smart thing he did in his life was marrying the daughter of a 4 star general to ensure his career would be stellar. Now papa in law is dead or senile so what the fuck....

Here's what the Petraeus Affair was hiding from us. LINK

And this is following Nietzsche folks. If you want to get rid of something carry it to excess to disappear it. Do it "worse". So this is tabloiding worse than tabloiding - hyper-tabloiding.

Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley, Petraeus's Linda Tripp