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Friday, 9 March 2012
GORETZKI'S MISCELLANY
And finally, cartoons that defied my mania for
categorization, cartoons that either need their own category (Transportation
and Force Majeure; Complexities of British Engineering and Fairground
Mishaps… Thinking about it, they could both have squeezed in under transport) or
need Goretzki to work on some more that are thematically germane, allow me to flesh it out. I know he has a
thing for British Rail’s bus replacement service. And that one about being
charged for a sick bag could be shoehorned into a Transport category. Anyway, I
hope you have enjoyed this quick buzz through my favourites of Jake’s work. Please
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GORETZKI ON FOOTBALL
When looking at right-wing idiocy, we could well have been talking
about Jermaine Pennant. Or Paolo di Canio. Especially Paolo di Canio. But we weren’t. For Goretzki has increasingly
been turning his pen these last couple of months to the comedic wellspring that is football, for a website called The FCF . Clichéd
it ain’t. Here’s a sample:
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GORETZKI ON TWO FACETS OF THE IRISH ECONOMIC MIRACLE
Normally, I wouldn’t advocate such blatant national
stereotyping, but I think this is justified on account of Goretzki thinking
long and hard about such matters, and if he’s happy drawing it, I’m happy
publishing. Three guesses which airline he’s lampooning here?
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GORETZKI ON RIGHT-WING IDIOCY
The Daily Mail.
Aren’t we lucky to have such a colossally benighted and intolerant organ to
stoke the already knicker-wetting fears and prejudices of Middle England. The
acceptable face of facism and the real reason proper socialism has such an uphill struggle in this country, with
its gently insistent discursive arc accomplishing the populist displacement of constructive
political anger on to some ill-defined ‘Other’ (terrorists, gypsies, thugs,
anarchists, chavs, immigrants, etc) for people who know their bally place and
are quite happy thank you.
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GORETZKI: CARTOONS FEATURING EAST EUROPEAN FIGURES (inc. AUSTRIA)
Starting with a gag that could easily have gone in the
previous section, we have here a troika of Eastern European-themed cartoons,
drawing on this great region of melancholic high art, pitiless organized crime,
post-communist micro-paranoia, lugubriousness, muscular female tennis stars and an abundance of amazingly gorgeous women, many servicing the sex industry
in both DVD production (front of camera) and live dancing (on stage). Iron
Curtain, we love you.
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GORETZKI DOES WORD PLAY AND SUPERIOR 'DAD JOKES'
No introduction needed for these (don’t know why I’m typing
this, then; it’s like describing a building as “nondescript”).
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GORETZKI ON SALES AND MARKETING
There are many ways to skin a sales/marketing moggy: billboards,
magazine pages, banners, buttons and skyscrapers, mail blasts, ambush marketing, viral
videos, prime time TV, the sandwich board, the supermarket stand, sponsored
links, pattern recognition software, putting your corporate livery on everyday
things, holograms in the night sky, tattoos on your face and no doubt several
other. They have one thing in common: get exposed to too much of it and you’ll
want to spoon your eyes out. There are people who, you know, believe in all this. If you ever come
across one, RUN!
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GORETZKI ON CORPORATISM
Is there anything more cringeworthy or utterly depressing
than overblown team-building corporate ‘philosophies’, and having them rammed down
your ear, nose and throat at cultish weekend seminars in which some Big Wig
helicopters in to parp utterly flocculent drivel in an attempt to indoctrinate you to the
point where you are ready to blow yourself up on the bus of their rival, should it
be necessary (no, the analogy is not too
strong)? Yes, there is: the utter c**ts that buy into it all. But such naff
evangelism works in thousands of more intimate and insidious ways, too, subtly
weaving itself into your every thought and action – if you worked for such a
company, that is. Thankfully, I do not. As Alan Partridge (impersonating a generic Irishman) once
said: Dairs mourr tuh loif dan dis.
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GORETZKI ON PSYCHOLOGY
With a background in market research and a reluctant foot or
ironic toe in the rarefied mumbo-jumbo of corporate team-building, it’s to be
expected that a look at psychology is coloured by the latter’s “application” to
an instrumentalized field in which people are either trying to be persuaded to
buy things or to work with greater zeal, both of which, ironically enough, are
likely to put you on the psychiatrist’s couch pretty pronto. This kind of world
is not an easy one for children to grow up in, a vicious circle of
over-stimulation through being fobbed off onto toys as proxy parents and lack
of attention from others (causing attention-deficit)…
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GORETZKI ON THE INTERNET
Continuing on from the previous post’s look at sociality
and communication, it is true that
emailing now consumes a large part of our time, but that we also depend on the
Internet for much more: everything from practical knowledge to spiritual
succour.
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GORETZKI ON SOCIAL MEDIA (AND TXTING)
There are many who have seen the rise of social media as the
latest, maybe final harbinger of the
death of true communality as we retreat into ersatz collectives in which the lack
of physical presence removes all constraints on our behaviour at the same time
is erodes the affection and intimacy that sustain communities. Such is the view
of Sherry Turkle in Alone Together,
and, to a certain extent, of Nicholas Carr in The Shallows. What does Jake Goretzki think?
Papa Mike Sierra Lima.
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Papa Mike Sierra Lima.
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GORETZKI ON CONSUMERISM
Us Twenty-First Century types – we’re so historically mature,
aren’t we? So grown up. No wool can be pulled over eyes. No simple object can take
such a prominent place in our affections that – …ooh, I simply must get one of those new AppleBlueberry
x-ray-phones with 47 terabyte “squindaxia”. Supposed to be mega.
Those Apple users know their shit, don’t they? Wonder how many squindaxia they reckon is minimum...
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