Tuesday, April 10, 2007
(6:16 PM) | Anthony Paul Smith:
Home for the heteronomous | "Get a job — and some human rights!"
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Home for the heteronomous | "Get a job — and some human rights!" Tuesday, April 10, 2007(6:16 PM) | Anthony Paul Smith: The Political CatHayley enjoys this website called Stuff of My Cat, which delivers pictures of stuff on cats. They recently held a contest for the 'literary cat' where people could send in pictures of their cats reading and writing. Hayley sent in our May Day Cat Blogging, which, as you can see, featured Maizie and Sid reading Lenin's What Is to Be Done?. Our photo essay presented the cat as truly political, not as a mere bourgeois pet, but as a true feline partner on the road to revolution. Whereas the pictures that Stuff of My Cat choose infantilizes the cat. At best they can only pretend to read books their masters read about how to control cats and at worst they are amateur versions of pictures we find in Kitten Calendar. This presents yet another blow on the cultural front to the Workers' Struggle. |
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