Toybox:
In a dialogue between Deleuze and Foucault, Deleuze deemed critical theory to be a "conceptual toolbox" - in my devious imagination he meant to say TOYBOX. Toybox bring us the critical value of play, the interval, the scribble and the doodle, the anecdotal.... the formation of our private gang political vocabularies made public... the seeds of guerilla warfare... and witness Fatima Hussain's divine award-winning puppetry as open-air theatre in Lahore
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Aamir Liaquat
Name of a special Pilgrimage Package offered by Peo Travels (Pvt.) Ltd. to specifically attract fitnahs to go for Haj and get God’s approval of their meaningful hatred of sub-humans (such as Jews, Ahmadiyyas, Hindus, liberals and swine flu carriers). Also the name of a hyperbolic over-actor...
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Advanced Eurocentrism
Have you noticed that these "self-reflextive" critical practice people who care so much of Zizek bitching on Laclau on Ranciere, couldn't care if we - the Majority World - existed...
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Advanced Indieclub Community
Because the White hipster IS an ethnic minority insular community, in need of integration and assimilation... See Hamja Ahsan article in Garageland, final page here. Swamping artist-run, autonomous spaces... see Autoitalia's relation to the Nigerian diaspora, muslim, Afro-Carribean...
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Advanced Indieclub Practice
What has All Tommorows Parties got to do with Frieze magazine? Do you fancy they might cover the new Akram Khan festival of classical South Asian music... hmmmm....
...the whitey artworld cliques all begin here...
Example of contemporary Advanced Indieclub practice in Dominic Fox's...
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Advertising:
A very important phenomenon in the Pakistani electronic media, where little, irritating films about fairness creams and mobile phone connections become the lifeline of big, irritating seths running really irritating TV channels. Also, the constant source of that wonderfully poignant line, ‘choti...
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Aishwarya Rai
Famous Indian tree-hugger (especially on mangals), who is also a favourite of rabid anti-Hindu Pakistanis who will let her go (along with her tree, but not her husband), when they conquer India during the Ghazwa-ul-Hind in 2012 AD and slaughter all the Hindus of the world with their...
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Alchopak
"Would you like a beer, yaar?" Except always at exclusive Elite private views. Courtesy of Fugstar.
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Banana Republican
Not to be confused with the deform third-world state formation .. When the CEO of the Korean Corporate museum trys a litle bit too hard to impress you with his White America credientials - and Ivy League suckery, you know you are talking to a Banana Republician. Think House Negro, Nawab and...
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Buerotics
Compound of Bureaucracy and Erotics... think of the funding proposal that drove you completely mad and leech the life and soul out of you - it arouses someone, somewhere at the top of the Admin Council Planning Boardroom Management tower in the sky
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Chickenomics
Is an ideologically imprinted way of 1) looking at the life of birds, 2) feeling the call of your belle and 3) making a monetary purchase.
Some famous chefs had a go at Tescos 3 years ago, as they introduced £1.99 whole chickens, they took a proposal for higher standards to...
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Conspiracy Theory
A theory that is not a theory at all but a hard fact on Pakistani TV channels. Anyone disagreeing with the hard and loud factoids (conspiratorially called conspiracy theorists), is a Mossad/CIA/RAW/NASA/KFC agent and a possible swine flu carrier who would be lined up against the walls of Delhi’s...
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Country Club Asians
Picket-fence Diaspora. Held by various Govermental bodies to be "sucessful" "role models of the community". Sufferers of Afflueza and Professionationalism. Don't expect their respect Asian diaspora "artist" ("What are you going to do with that , Yaar?"). See also: Professionationalism.
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DAWN News
A groovy hang out where pleasant young men and women practice and sharpen their newly acquired American accents by toning their frequently mobile jaws. Here, cops become ‘caaps,’ jobs become ‘jaabs,’ Pakistan becomes ‘Pai-khis-tan,’ and Karachi becomes LA.
(Courtesy Nadeem F. Paracha)
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DAWN.com
A place where tiny worthless dots gather at dawn to receive handouts from the many myriad enemies of Pakistan – such as, Indians, Americans, Israelites and Tellytubbies – so that they can use cyberspace to spread their anti-Islam, anti-Pakistan, anti-Shan propaganda through anti-Islam,...
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Deleuze-o-babble
anyone who has been to an artworld bookshop, Goldsmiths college or the ICA in the last 5 years knows needs no further explanation. Ranciere, Zizek... and whatever other cod-fish fashionable delayed English translated circulates whitey Hoxditch artist-run spaces & Artforum rounds... file...
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Diversity Illuminati
Haven't you noticed that all the people at the Tate Britain cross-cultural programme, INiVA/ Rivington Place, TRAIN were all exacly the same!
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Education Space
suffers from Black & Asian Minority Ethnic overrepresentation. Lets bring in Faisul Abdullah to connect with the BME youth today...
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Episteamology
Its a complicated and delicate matter, accept multiple ways of contributing.
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Express News
An express-ion connoting something half-baked, done in a hurry. Example: ‘All pace and no substance makes Jack an Express News.’
(Courtesy Nadeem F. Paracha)
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Farticipatory
Often when people try to tick a box or gain legitimacy (and funding) they invoke the Participatory.
Some years ago i was with some water sector people in Bangladesh. Proper NGOistan.
They were feeding me some stuff on their participatory projects and i came accross an interesting pie...
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Gap Yaar
"well yaar, let me go 'find' myself."
A variation of GAP YAH
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKFjWR7X5dU
Courtesy of: Fuad Ali/ Fugstar
See Also:
DEVELOPIST, DIPLOPRATT, GAP YAAR
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Ghazwa-ul-Hind
A forthcoming Lollywood science-fiction blockbuster directed by Zaid Hamid, produced by Dr. Shahid Masood, and staring Maria B., Ali Azmat, Hamid Gul, Irfan Siddiqui, and Yoda.
(Courtesy Nadeem F. Paracha)
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Gorailla
Seen your white hipster in a Palestinian scarf cos it is fashionable, the rest follows... expect middle-class and suburbian
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Hanification
Generic British "Black & Asian" writer (gulity as charged: Sudhev Sandhu) needs to be told that Hanif Kureshi did not invent Asians sexuals mores in 1980-whatever. We were reading Sadaat Hassan Manto before then. Please do not assume the East London Bangladeshis do not value their faith as you...
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Iqbal Ka Pakistan
The show that makes the great allama roll in his grave each week.
(Courtesy Nadeem F. Paracha)
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Liberation Mortgage
Often in near history we have the tale of a group seeking national liberation but holding insufficient power to pull it off and falling from the frying pan into the fire because they have to take out a Liberation Mortgage.
The consequence of the Liberation Mortgage is that your autonomy is...
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Machopak
Machopak will not go to an art gallery because it is gay and he is da real thing. He is beyond is the reach of your arts council social inclusion scheme.
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Machopax
Machopak conclusion with corporate American capitalism in his love of NIKE, Halal Fried Chicken & MTV Base. See also: Black Culture Industry
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Maria B.
A fashion designer who is a fan of Zaid Hamid and thus keeps getting a ‘C’ in politics. She should actually be called Maria C., or Maria Z. Or better, Maria GHB (Maria Ghuzwa-ul-Hind B).
(Courtest Nadeem F. Paracha)
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Munira-Culturalism
Munira-culturalism is summed by a pertinent observation of Arun Kundani: "For every mention of institutional racism, we have heard a thousand references to the 'crisis of multiculturalism'" Named in honour of Munira Mirza - now recieving a £80K salary to be Boris Johnson "race advisor". In...
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NGOggles
To see the world through the lens of as a white liberal, foriegn AID NGO, Live Aid Rock star charity, christian missionary, IMF loan lender i need of your aid, benevolence and blessed humanity... "We will never forget the freedom-loving people of Iran..."
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NGoogles
Searching for misinformation to back Imperial domination... Actually, I don't know what it means ... it was a typing error for NGOggles... but it came in handy during a facebook wall quarrel
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Ohingsha
(i) Negation of envy and jealousy.
(ii) Post Gandhian political movement to break the socially and spiritually degenerative characteristics of Bangladeshi Moronarchy
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Orientalatheism
Compound of Orientalism and atheism in the age of Imperial (White) Liberal Supremacy & Ominous Islamophobia & Christopher Hitchens "God is Great" neocons and Richard Dawkins obnoxiousness. See Johann Hari.
"Hamja - a rural Islamic utopia isn't going to come and save us all..." Nandita...
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Overintegration
you know you are overintegrated when you find yourselves complaining about how it is their fault for not being integrated enough. See also: Country Club Asians
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Post-essentialist Neurosis
At a meeting of the ABON (Artists of Bangladesh Origin) in Tower Hamets we spend 10 hours of our local council meeting discussing whether we should have the word BANGLADESHI ORIGIN... Hmmm ... Maybe Bengali origin... ad nauseum, loop in loop, knot in knot....
O yes look at my ironic...
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Preventing Violent Eurocentrism (PVE)
Like an inverse, counter-punch to every Government native informant Stooge ... BUT who will fund us?
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Professionationalism
The tribal imprint of work that can lend its wearer a false sense of significance. e.g Professional's networking event. (Courtesy of Fugstar - Fuad Ali)
fugstar.blogspot.com/
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Prog Rock Post-colonialism
Come and see my 300 hour 12 screen video installation on refugees travelling from across the whole entire continental followed by a 1 month symposium by TJ Demos about Giorgio Agamben
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REAL/ FAKE Pakistani
the solution to Post-essentialist neurosis.... You are either REAL or FAKE
Applicable to all such categories of nationality, race, ethnicity and identity formations....
See Also: Post-essentialist neurosis
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Social Notworking
is an genius insightful zine by Sowfia Niazi, Walrus Zine collective about web 2.0. Sums it up...
buy it here
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Subalterneering
What the post post colonial theorists vie to frame the true subaltern in their community of interest
The peasant cultivator, the industrial worker, the policeman or the internet brat? No, they cannot speak but to compete for prominence in our discursive power games.
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Symposium Asylum
Symposium Aslyum - sympton? or root cause? All the world is my paper, followed by paper, referencing another paper in hyper-simulacra. Irit Rogoff is interned here.
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Taliban
Very hairy people who, in spite of being extremely obvious and ubiquitous, are still treated as ghosts by many TV hosts and their guests. They’d rather believe Elvis is alive than agree that it is the Taliban who are blowing themselves up in markets and mosques every now and then.
Example:
News...
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The Sci(l)encer
A technocratic weapon that uses anointed and institutionally backed knowledge production to overwhelm and generally quieten other forms of knowing that are carried and embodied by humans.
Strugglers are implored to elude the Sci[l]encer and deploy non collaborative vibes in its general...
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Tourrorism
The act of commercial organization and operation of actions poised as ‘peace, development and rehab efforts’ to visit and habituate places of economic and political interest.
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Whiteous Indignation
The monoculture's vitriolic reaction to folks who aim higher than secular liberal ideology.
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Yaar-ness
"We are RAQS Media Collective, YAAR!" The lazy tendency of European institutions failure to develop any grass roots connections with a diaspora or migrant settlement area and instead invite Dehli elites over to produce YET ANOTHER COMMISION in a 1 month.
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Yaar-type
Species born in the shopping malls and nightclubs of New Dehli & Mumbai & spreading their socialite disease to the Sunday Magazines of South Asia. Lets go to this new restaurant, YAAR!
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Zaid Hamid
A fast-talking rap artiste who stole Ali Azmat’s soul (and guitar), and turned Aag TV into the official Ghazwa-ul-Hind music channel. His biggest hits are ‘Let’s march on Delhi, y’all!’ ‘Hindus are insects, y’all,’ ‘I love wars, y’all,’ ‘M. B. Qasim is ma man, y’all,’ ‘So is Maria B, y’all,’ ‘Even...
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Zizeky
Hamid Dabashi sums it: "For people like Zizek, social upheavals in what they call the Third World are a matter of theoretical entertainment. It is an old tradition that goes back all the way to Sartre on Algeria and Cuba in the 1950s, down to Foucault on Iran in the 1970s. That does not bother me a...
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Playground
New Game : Cowboys & Iranians
[New Game] Cowboys and Iranians
Remember that game where the annihilation of the Native American civilisations is celebrated through child's play?
Well this better game is set to superscede its imperial bastard stepmother. Valuing courage, creativity...
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Buddy Movie
Novel & Vovel - Palestine Superninja Hero
If Hamja & Fatima were rich, we would buy this book all for your birthday presents...
We plan to take this to Pakistan & Bangladesh as an exhibition....
and are developing it as a puppet show next year...
Hamja is the unofficial ambassodor of Nonel & Vovel for the...
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Goopy & Bagha
The greatest film ever made...
forget Bill & Ted & all other buddie movies... goopy & Bagha is the original and shows how art cinema beat commercial movies at their own game...
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"How symbolic yesterday that Chinese astronauts take a spacewalk while the US Treasury Secretary is on his knees." - John Gray
(Source: www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/28/usforeignpolicy.useconomicgrowth)
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"Well, yes, But I Can't see Hamas leaders handing out copies of A Thousand Plateaus in the near future." - Bashir Makhoul
(Source: Identity Theft: The Cultural Colonization of Contemporary Art. 2009. p 38.)
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