September 2012
“Modern art is often characterized as a series of broken taboos, as a constant...”
– Boris Groys, ‘The Communist Postscript’ (via aidsnegligee)
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“But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing...”
– Ludwig Feuerbach (via sunrec)
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Shared wheels
Just purchased a CTA Plus card and signed up for Zipcar. I’m looking forward to saving a pretty penny, but it feels very strange to be giving up my car. I suppose Zipcar is like my car security blanket in the mean time, haha.
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“If you can’t take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home...”
– Q in Q Who?
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Education versus Training →
To appreciate the importance of philosophy for universities we need to consider the distinction between education and training. Broadly speaking we are familiar with the distinction. A father is supposed to have said: “If my daughter told me she was getting sex education in school I’d be pleased. If she told me she got sex training I’d go straight to the police.” Training is about practice,...
What is Magic?
raspberryjones:
Magic is not simply a matter of the occult or the esoteric, of astrology, Wicca and Satanism; it follows processes inherent to human consciousness and connected to constructive and imaginitive thought. The faculties of imagination - dream, projection, fantasy - are bound up with the faculties of reasoning and essential to making the leap beyond the known into the unknown. At...
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That thing where...
…your mediocre date from the night before texts you the next day to tell you he’s not interested in going on another date with you.
That just happened. I honestly thought the stilted conversation and clear lack of chemistry made this message redundant.
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How Net Art Helped Me Find God →
jockohomo:
Will Brand writes: “Rule 34 states that if you can imagine it, there is porn of it. Most jokes have already been made, by people with more Twitter followers than you, and for every subject from Cezanne to C-sections there’s somebody out there who knows more than you ever could, and who’s happy to lord it over you in a forum thread. So what’s the point? In a 2008 interview with Gene...
“I don’t see how anyone who confronts Obama’s record with clear eyes can...”
– Why I Refuse to Vote for Barack Obama
On stage, as he smiles into the camera, using words to evoke some of the best sentiments within us, it’s hard to believe certain facts about him:
Obama terrorizes innocent Pakistanis on an almost daily basis. The drone war he is waging in North Waziristan...
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“People like Sheba think they know what it’s like to be lonely. They cast their...”
– Barbara Covett, Notes on a Scandal [What was she thinking?] by Zoe Heller
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“You take delight not in a city’s seven wonders or seventy wonders, but in the...”
– Italy Calvin, “Invisible Cities” (via americastoppushing)
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“There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully,...”
– Oscar Wilde (via seraphicwhore)
I believe I have come upon one of these moments, and I know the decision I must make.
