January 2010
115 posts
December 2009
138 posts
principialuis:
I see suicide warnings on my dashboard. When in doubt, seek the guidance of those wiser than you. However don’t look towards E. Hemingway, S. Plath, D. F. Wallace, A. Turing, H. S. Thompson, R. Takaki, Cato The Younger, G. Deleuze, S. Freud, K Gödel or any of these other upstanding citizens, for guidance on such matters.
This is for obvious reasons.
hahahahahah
a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is...
principialuis:
lesoldat:
will someone just give me a few hundred thousand dollars already
Let me just forward it to your paypal.
How do your interest rates run?
will someone just give me a few hundred thousand dollars already
Bacacay: Polish Literature in Translation →
“Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is...”
– Jean-Luc Godard (via snakecharmer) (via fuckyeahjeanlucgodard) (via notational)
My discontent, now. Not with this quote.
Cocteau Twins - Bluebeard
“We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to fear— fear of war, fear of...”
–
-Hunter S. Thompson
(via earlyfrost)
(via montycantsin)
(via pareidoliac)
(via notational)
Fear that is unfortunately well-founded; fear that I try uselessly to disregard daily. The “bad debts” aspect is most terrifying, seeing as I am required to go into massive debt to get an education...
“We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to fear— fear of war, fear of...”
–
-Hunter S. Thompson
(via earlyfrost)
(via montycantsin)
(via pareidoliac)
(via notational)
Fear that is unfortunately well-founded; fear that I try uselessly to disregard daily. The “bad debts” aspect is most terrifying, seeing as I am required to go into massive debt to get an...
formspring???? →
Claudia balancing a checkbook.
“A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island […] [E]ven before he is...”
– Jean-François Lyotard: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (translated by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi) (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
“One should always be drunk. That’s the one thing that matters. In order not to...”
– Baudelaire (via suzywire) (via risely-evan)
“Make rhizomes, not roots, never plant! Don’t sow grow offshoots! Don’t be one or...”
– Deleuze, Mille Plateaux (via afterimg) (via pareidoliac) (via montycantsin)
“Cynicism has said, or claimed to have said, everything there is to say about...”
– Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, via Marika (via withfeeling)
Watchnotational:
roomthily:
James Geary, metaphorically speaking
via TED
six metaphors a minute
“Whenever we deal with anything abstract - ideas, emotions, feelings, concepts, thoughts - we inevitably resort to metaphor.” Metaphor, I believe, is the most useful tool we have to put human experience into distinctly human perspective. “X = Y.” Yes, at times X does equal Y...
i say, “sometimes i want to be heard.” “sometimes, —” sometimes, there are no categories. there is no way to artfully, categorically apply an experience or a feeling, or a transposition of such, into cause and effect or oppressor and oppressed or man and woman — sometimes the dichotomy just doesn’t fit and that’s when the distorted sound of truth...
“All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact...”
– Simone de Beauvoir
“…And yet anxiety comes over me, as if I still did not understand what...”
– Kierkegaard, Repetition. Again.
UCSB Notes/Quotes on Foucault's History of... →
“The EDKB Wiki is a database that makes available the various interests, talents, and resources of the English Department community.”
I really love finding class material/lecture notes online from schools I can’t afford to actually attend.
A Reply to: "Urban Dictionary Mess #1: 'Feminism'" →
the-activista:
cutmywires:
4. Activity directed toward transforming social arrangements and systems of thought that accord disproportionate honor, authority, and power to men and to whatever is categorized as masculine – and that simultaneously degrade and subordinate women and whatever is defined culturally as feminine, including many groups of men. (Allison Jaggar, editor of Just Methods: An...
