June 2012
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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