VERY excited about the book I just got in the mail… “The Spies” by Brazilian writer of philosophic mystery, Luís Fernando Veríssimo… only his third
Read moreThis got me a little verklempt. In a forever-empty, at-once-alone-and-connected, utopian-performative/saudade Lacanian kind of way.
This got me a little verklempt. In a forever-empty, at-once-alone-and-connected, utopian-performative/saudade Lacanian kind of way. “You need to build an ability to just be yourself
Read more“Our ancestors’ sense of self was pretty much wrapped up in how they supported…”
“Our ancestors’ sense of self was pretty much wrapped up in how they supported the clan, and how they were accepted and supported by it.
Read more“I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred (1991) Oh man this song takes me back. It was very important to my 10-year-old self. I knew
Read moreThere was no way of really knowing anything, he knew, not even that there was no way of really knowing anything. Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Read moreEveryone agreed that Clevinger was certain to go far in the academic world. In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence
Read more[W]hile prose tends toward pure ‘interiority,’ coming to life in the reader’s mind, and cinema gravitates toward the ‘exteriority’ of experiential spectacle, perhaps ‘comics,’ in
Read moreWe were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared
Read moreSo what you’re saying is, Foucault knows how to turn it off once in a while? Good man.
Read moreI am an artist. It’s self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It
Read moreThere were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become
Read moreanother meta-gasm
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DERRIDA SCHMERRIDA join the fun!
Read moreI can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. John Cage
Read more[E]liza and I composed a precocious critique of the Constitution of the United States of America, too. We argued that it was as good a
Read moreuoma: By Sommer Mathis (by TBDDC)
Read moreLet’s face it. We’re undone by each other. And if we’re not, we’re missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it
Read more[F]or the vast majority of students, academic study is nothing more than vocational training. Because ‘academic study has no bearing on life,’ it must be
Read moreAll of [Sarah] Silverman’s controversies are essentially large-scale pieces of PC performance art—but instead of settling anything about race and humor in America, they just
Read moreCritique doesn’t have to be the premise of a deduction which concludes: this then is what needs to be done. It should be an instrument
Read moreI cannot think of any individual as existing except as part of a pattern–and the pattern’s most visible and tangible areas are of course the
Read moreMaturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.’ Mark Z. Danielewski, House Of Leaves
Read moreMany commentators measure political theater only by its effectiveness in the ‘real world.’… I try to resist such stark binaries between performance and reality, and
Read moreVision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. bumper sticker
Read moreWe can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein (via mnmal) (via proofmathisbeautiful) (via fuckyeahtheorists)
Read more[D]esire is neither the appetite for satisfaction nor the demand for love, but the difference that results from the subtraction of the first from the
Read moreNo one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn’t understand at all, or at someone who speaks a foreign
Read more[W]e merge our myths with our facts according to our feelings, we tell ourselves our own story. And no matter what we are told, we
Read moreAlison Bechdel’s “Dykes To Watch Out For”
Read moreThe Case Against Reading – Everything Unfinished – Identity Theory
The Case Against Reading – Everything Unfinished – Identity Theory Some paragraphs in Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good for You imagine what the conventional
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