August 2011
1 post
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy
December 2010
1 post
Kim Jong Il looking at things →
October 2010
12 posts
WatchSO YOU WANT TO GET A PHD IN THE HUMANITIES
Racial violence spurred Asian students to take a... →
Alain Badiou's The Subject of Art →
The Crisis of the Humanities Officially Arrives →
http://www.theonion.com/articles/historians-admit-t... →
September 2010
3 posts
“A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours...”
– Albert Camus (via morethan4)
August 2010
1 post
From Neruda's "I explain a few things"
So you ask why his poems
don’t tell us of dreams, and leaves,
and great volcanoes in his native land?
Come see the blood in the streets,
come see
the blood in the streets,
come see the blood
in the streets!
May 2010
13 posts
“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer, which we use to crush the enemy.”
– Mao Tse-tung
Baptist minister 'took ten-day holiday with male... →
a story that never gets old
Loss of philosophy at Middlesex raises fears for... →
“Lovers are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and...”
– Adam Phillips
April 2010
12 posts
“But today, maybe, we have to create a new trend of politics, beyond the...”
– Alain Badiou (via etctatic)
“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via alphabetasoup) (via ontologicalterrorist)
“If you love without calling forth love, that is, if your love as such does not...”
– Karl Marx. trans. Erich Fromm. “National Economy and Philosophy”
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/04... →
“‘Am I in love? –Yes, since I’m waiting.’ The other never waits. Sometimes I want...”
– Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
“One should resolutely reject the liberal-victimist ideology that reduces...”
– Slavoj Zizek
From Zizek's "Soul of the Party"
Christianity is anti-wisdom: wisdom tells us that our efforts are in vain, that everything ends in chaos, while Christianity madly insists on the impossible. Love, especially a Christian one, is definitely not wise. This is why Paul said: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise” (“Sapientiam sapientum perdam,” as his saying is usually known in Latin). We should take the term...
“From what source will man draw the strength to be the immortal that he is?”
– Alain Badiou, Ethics
Yeah, sex music!! →
March 2010
56 posts
The uses of science →
I only have respect for people who could say "I'm... →
“Stand up and take your dissonance like a man!”
– Charles Ives
So, here’s my problem. I have really handsome ideas that just look awful dressed in ink.
“To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him,...”
– Jean Baudrillard, Fatal Strategies
Joo Se Hyuk beats Timo Boll at the VW CUP in... →