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So, Canada’s dissolution of Parliament this morning was so much more like Star Wars than we’d care to admit.

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper basically used the Emperor’s speech upon asking the Governor General to dissolve parliament.

Amazing.

(via defeatist)

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A question, re: the week in fashion

I read “High Fascism” in the NY times:

France is highly sensitive to such matters, and reprisals came quickly. Dior fired Mr. Galliano, who now faces charges of using a racial insult, a crime in France. But beyond the spectacle of one man’s abhorrent politics, the episode invites consideration of the curious relationship between French fashion and fascism.

Ok, pretty good.

(Image from Jezebel who don’t seem to realise that the whole point of fascism was to try to make pretty things, actually.)

But where is the in-depth critical discussion of Galliano’s collections noting their emphasis on the aesthetics the high-modernist well-to-do of the 1920–40s, the association of that aristocracy with fascism, and increasing political trends towards restoring a version of the pre-WWII, pre-welfare state political-economic system with nationalist political movements, income equality, battles between opposing politicised youth, widespread uprisings, top-down class warfare in the form of misguided financial austerity poorly justified by recession, &c.

Can somebody point out this article for me, or does it not exist yet?