Comments

1. Will

   Thursday 8 November 2007 at 0:38

   This post lacks a glib one-liner.

2. George S

   Thursday 8 November 2007 at 14:41

   Julie Andrews: God’s answer to Marilyn Monroe.

3. Scoop

   Thursday 8 November 2007 at 15:19

   “In this paper I have argued that Mary Poppins would like to reassure us that so long as we attend to our families and private lives, all is and will continue to be well with the world. Yet, ideological closure is forestalled because there is something out of joint both in 1964 and 1910, that disjunction consisting of contradictions of capitalism that are understood by Habermas as crisis tendencies of advanced capitalism and by Hilferding and Lenin as the tendency of imperialism to war. The historical setting of Mary Poppins haunts Disney’s happy family of 1964, raising the possibility that something is out of joint in the society it inhabits. There is also no easy joint between the world of 1910 and that of 1964, so the attempt to obscure the ideological message of privatism can be unravelled into a critical perspective that, as Derrida reminds us, continues to haunt today’s capitalism too.”

   http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/reader/chapter.php?id=10