June 2012
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So as not to fill up my facebook with excessively...
Since I don’t do long form rant on facebook, you have been referred here so that I may have my say.
I tend to agree with the right wing about the individual mandate - i.e., I don’t like the idea of the government telling me that I have to buy any commercial product. I never thought that the idea was unconstitutional, but I didn’t like it. This “victory” that...
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Your Dumbass Beach Read for the Summer (If You're...
Broken Piano for President is the story of blackout drunk genius Deshler Dean, his band, and the burger wars that consume the nation (real wars, not drug war “wars”). Goofy without being stupid, funny without pandering, satirical without taking itself too seriously. Fun way to break up the constant stream of new Badiou translations.
http://brokenpianoforpresident.com/
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DeShawn Stevenson has an ATM in his Kitchen →
Oh yeah.
Free food at work
hookedonsemiotics:
THE COMMUNISM IS ALREADY TAKING HOLD
surrealism.png: political-linguaphile: omnicore ha... →
The problem always comes when you try to take oppression from the specific to the general … or from the subjective to the objective. There is always a problem in translation (is it race? is it class? is it gender? is it sexuality?) The only thing you can know for sure is that any explanation which terratorializes the experience of oppression and the resistance to oppression is as...
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Robert Williams
The father of the rat rod.
He drove one before they had a name: note the unpainted rust patina, the 8’s & Aces “dead man’s hand” painted on the side.
When the rust patina thing became a cliche (or maybe even before), he PAINTED HIS DAMN ROD. Fuck you, hipsters.
I like his black coupe even better.
Robert Williams: recognize, rodder.
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Hoop! →
“Is my death possible? Can we understand this question? Can I, myself, pose it?...”
– Jacques Derrida, Aporias (via poeticsofdeath)
YOUR DEATH, AS CONCEIVED, IS NOT POSSIBLE
“all my lymph nodes are a-achin’ / ‘cause I don’t eat nothin’ but bacon”
— the Cancer Song
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The Scott Walkerization of America
Everybody’s gotta be an asshole.
"market anarchism"
hookedonsemiotics:
is this like going to a mall and trying to buy a pretzel from the Verizon store?
It’s exactly like that.
“It is therefore, I think, a mistake to think of the individual as a sort of...”
– Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended” (14 January 1976)
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seriously? ”Midget Submarine” isn’t on YouTube?
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Heraclitus - fragments from LOGOS (THE WORD), pt....
104. It is not good for men to get all they wish to get. It is sickness that makes health pleasant; evil, good; hunger, plenty; weariness, rest.
105 - 107. It is hard to fight one’s heart’s desire. Whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul.
108, 109. It is best to hide folly; but it is hard in times of relaxation, over our cups.
110. And it is law, too, to...
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Electra
So having prayed, I pour these offerings.
Your part is to crown them with lament
And with a loud voice make music for the dead.
— Aeschylus, from the Oresteia, tr. George Thomson
one year … MARK!
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Heraclitus - fragments from LOGOS (THE WORD), pt....
66. The bow is called life, but its world is death
67. Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.
68. For it is death to souls to become water, and death to water to become earth. But water comes from earth; and from water, soul.
69. The way up and the way down is one and the same.
70. In the circumference...
“A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It...”
– Michel Foucault, Practicing Criticism (via sunrec) 