‘Echad Mi Yodea’ by Tractor’s RevengeReally amazing…
‘Echad Mi Yodea’ by Tractor’s Revenge
Really amazing version of Echad Mi Yodea that I heard at this weekend’s Fall for the Dance performance.
Archive - October 14th, 2014
“”No imagined future paradise is worth terror in the here and now. […] “The furious, crowdsourced…”
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“No imagined future paradise is worth terror in the here and now. […]
“The furious, crowdsourced prosecution of perceived feminist “corruption” violently conflicts with any anti-harassment ethic. GamerGate, more than most such movements, is morally unmusical: they have rules with no moral framework, they call for ethics without finding ways of instilling a sense of ethics in their followers. It becomes hollow rhetoric that ultimately bows before the terrible logic of revolutionary thinking: ethics are for paradise, in the here and now we must fight til our final breath with everything we have, no matter the wreckage we may leave behind us.
If you sincerely believe that the cyber mob is the ideal jury to fight corruption, and you marshal a perilous stack of indictments against dozens of writers, organisations, websites, and developers that charges them all with a conspiracy to destroy gaming, then harassment-as-praxis is inevitable. […]
the demand that everybody display in public his innermost motivation… transforms all actors into hypocrites; the moment the display of motives begins, hypocrisy begins to poison all human relations […]
When I and others questioned the ethics and objectivity of an operation whose chief exponent promised that academics like myself would “fear us even in their sleep” and pledged to target only “feminists,” […] we were simply told by gentler voices in the movement that we had nothing to fear if we had done no wrong. They are unable to understand that their ability to discern right from wrong is what is at issue here. […]
They are now all but criminalising the very notion that writers should be paid for their work, suggesting this is a conflict of interest in its own right. […]
On the doorway to paradise appeared the words: Agendas Are Unethical.
Thus we were all made to walk through.”
”
“”No imagined future paradise is worth terror in the here and now. […] “The furious, crowdsourced…”
“
“No imagined future paradise is worth terror in the here and now. […]
“The furious, crowdsourced prosecution of perceived feminist “corruption” violently conflicts with any anti-harassment ethic. GamerGate, more than most such movements, is morally unmusical: they have rules with no moral framework, they call for ethics without finding ways of instilling a sense of ethics in their followers. It becomes hollow rhetoric that ultimately bows before the terrible logic of revolutionary thinking: ethics are for paradise, in the here and now we must fight til our final breath with everything we have, no matter the wreckage we may leave behind us.
If you sincerely believe that the cyber mob is the ideal jury to fight corruption, and you marshal a perilous stack of indictments against dozens of writers, organisations, websites, and developers that charges them all with a conspiracy to destroy gaming, then harassment-as-praxis is inevitable. […]
the demand that everybody display in public his innermost motivation… transforms all actors into hypocrites; the moment the display of motives begins, hypocrisy begins to poison all human relations […]
When I and others questioned the ethics and objectivity of an operation whose chief exponent promised that academics like myself would “fear us even in their sleep” and pledged to target only “feminists,” […] we were simply told by gentler voices in the movement that we had nothing to fear if we had done no wrong. They are unable to understand that their ability to discern right from wrong is what is at issue here. […]
They are now all but criminalising the very notion that writers should be paid for their work, suggesting this is a conflict of interest in its own right. […]
On the doorway to paradise appeared the words: Agendas Are Unethical.
Thus we were all made to walk through.”
”
