November 2011
17 posts
“An esoteric sacred bath”
– Fanatic on radio 4
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“Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a...”
– Mark Lilla (using terminology from Rousseau)
Coffee and cigarettes as a combination are almost as inspiring as a mash up of Aristotle and Heidegger which, read in synchronisation with the aforementioned vices, is (temporally :/) exquisite!
“Some illustrious American gave me this sign to illustrate how, despite my unavoidable circumstance stemming from some elses, some other, some national ideology, i should dream big, think myself out of my unfortunate situation!!”
This photograph was taken to inspire hope, but how can this child evoke change, how are they expected to dream often? Pushing against something..but...
“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“I am not a Marxist”
– Karl Marx
The Laughing Heart, Bukowski
your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your...
October 2011
23 posts
“Love is factual, it is not emotional, something to be cried over; it is not...”
– Krishnamurti
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
– Nietzsche
“It is much more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to...”
– Žižek, Living in the End Times, p. 93
“Even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are here for a fraction of...”
– Priest, Synecdoche New York
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the...”
– Anaïs Nin
In the highest most utter accolade i can deliver…you need to go fuck yourself.
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I have realised today that despite it taking me 3 and a half hours of lazily, absent-mindedly trying to get focused, when i am able to focus, and work, i really do work.
I need to have more face to face discussions, partly because i), relating to a passage i read last night on Derrida’s focal importance of speech over writing, i follow the belief (for now) that speech is the most...
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“I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your...”
– Charles Bukowski
VERA
Come she said Stay she said Smile she said Die she said
I came I stayed I smiled I died Nazim Hikmet 1963
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“And what are two thousand years? (asked Mr. Ramsay ironically, staring at the...”
– To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.
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September 2011
31 posts
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“The thesis that I support does not in any way declare that being is...”
– Alain Badiou, “Being and Event”
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Little motel, modest mouse
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Marxist's (and their celebrity friends.... )
“Lady Gaga has struck up a strong friendship with mysterious Marxist Slavoj Zizek, dubbed ‘the world’s hippest philosopher.’ […] Sources say Gaga and Slovenian-born Zizek—who like Salman Rushdie seems to be intellectual catnip to beautiful women and who was once married to Argentine model Analia Hounie—spent time together discussing feminism and collective human creativity. The pop star also...
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“That growing affection of two lovers for each other is in reality the will to...”
– Schopenhauer
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books written for girls by camera obscura
“Yes, life is full, there is life even underground,” he began again. “You...”
– Dostoevsky
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“There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen....”
– Franz Kafka, from the fourth of The Blue Octavo Notebooks
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hypergraphic mana-fiend
digitalpidgin:
weexist-weresist:
digitalpidgin:
Please, let me liquefactionate you. My logos is operating on a model of limitless compound growth and I am running out of fuel.
what are these words that come out of your mouth
not just mouth, but also hands. my autogenetic semiotics are the fossilized commodification of my insatiable “urge to merge”. they are my mana tentacles, the...