March 2012
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GPOY
incorrectbibleverses:
“And Jesus said, ‘Free market ideology is the best economic ideology. Anyone who says differently is a communist or a socialist.” —Mark 16:22
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I've been staring at this for far too long
in a forrest pitch-dark glowed the tiniest spark it burst into flame like me like me
Isobel by Bjork
Today’s totally a Bjork appreciation day. Actually, this whole week has been.
Just look at how awesome she is:
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hollovv replied to your post: hollovv replied to your post: sijemesouviensbien…
Im a little more lighthearted than most -annoying you can’t escape living in our society so you just gotta be aware and not take things too seriously sometimes. Im sure most SJ people would flay me alive for that but OH WELL
Cool. I agree. I think I was just tired and arguing about things that weren’t...
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pussy-strut:
i was reading zizek on the train to try to pick up chicks man
Story of my life.
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On Being Fat and Romantically Interested in Other...
phredology:
butitmight:
fatbodypolitics:
bigfatfeminist:
[TRIGGER WARNING: Rape]
Look, it’s really fucking hard to be a fat person who happens to be romantically interested in other people, particularly when those other people are cis het dudes.
It’s hard because when you grow up fat, you grow up believing that you’re not ever going to be attractive to anyone. You don’t even do this on...
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hollovv replied to your post: sijemesouviensbien replied to your post:…
Its the same with like, immortal technique even - the way the posturing performs a certain action informs the listener of intent and content and really has something to say rather than just being a restatement of cultural norms
I’m going to reply to this really fast, so this may not be too organized, but after...
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sijemesouviensbien replied to your post: sijemesouviensbien replied to your post: This…
I’ll listen to Wu-Tang say “hoe,” because they don’t really objectify women but caricaturize an attitude towards women. There’s a stark difference between that and mainstream contemporary hip-hop pandering to idiotic fetishes of women.
Definitely don’t disagree there. I just feel like I conflate...
“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
– Jack Gilbert (via honeychurch)
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sijemesouviensbien replied to your post: This (via: machistado) is a great post about how…
it’s TRUE. but it still doesn’t follow that we SHOULD listen to any misogynistic music on principle. it insults rap that isn’t.
I don’t know. I’m honestly in the middle of this. Seeing a lot of essays over Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, talking about how the lyrics are obviously...
effusionofbiopower:
“Being and Time has argued perhaps but one sole thesis: Being is inseparable from the comprehension of Being (which unfolds as time); Being is already an appeal to subjectivity.”
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Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity (via hollovv)
BAM! am i the only one who wants to drink lean with Levinas and bump some chopped and screwed?
If being is inseparable from the...
February 2012
148 posts
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This (via: machistado) is a great post about how the focus on misogyny in rap music (versus other forms of music) has a heavy background in racism.
Although the whole thing is worth a read, here’s one quote in particular that’s wonderful:
Marilyn Manson declared that one of the aims of his provocative persona was to see how much it would take to get the moralists as mad at white ...
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hollovv replied to your post: workandentropy replied to your post: interruptions…
Larval subjects is Levi bryant so you’re in luck! :)
Haha, hadn’t even noticed that. Of course, after reading this, I go to the ‘about me’ and it’s right there.
Oh well, that’s great news all the same. Thanks for the heads up.
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nicoleviciousisdead:
sterwood:
I always feel disgusting having stereotypical small talk about ‘the weather’ - especially within some bland corporate setting.
That feeling just got bumped up: I had stereotypical small talk about ‘the weather’ in a bland corporate setting with someone that doesn’t even live here.
If it’s any consolation, it is crazy windy right now. I am a little terrified of...
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MOAR ANGER
redlightpolitics:
Well not really anger but a couple more thoughts around my musings on radical anger, feminism, etc. In my quest for a framework that includes ethics and praxis in feminist politics, I also started to scrutinize how the discourse surrounding reproductive justice is articulated in mainstream media. I am more interested in how the “pro choice” side comes across (because really, at...
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I always feel disgusting having stereotypical small talk about ‘the weather’ - especially within some bland corporate setting.
That feeling just got bumped up: I had stereotypical small talk about ‘the weather’ in a bland corporate setting with someone that doesn’t even live here.
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Anger, feminist ethics, action
redlightpolitics:
I’ve written before (brushed over might be a more accurate descriptor) about my interest in what I referred to as “a feminist ethics” and I have been kind of surprised about how little theory there is behind it. Sure, there are theories of feminist ethics, such as the works of philosophers like Carol Gilligan (whose work set some of the basis for the “Ethics of Care”) but in...
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workandentropy replied to your post: interruptions replied to your quote: “[I]t may be…
Have you checked out Levi Bryant’s stuff? Don’t know much about OOO or speculative realism, but his stuff seems interestng, refreshingly accessible. The breadth and depth of his knowledge of continental trad. despite working in analytic is like woah
I’ve been meaning to check out some of his...
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hollovv replied to your post: interruptions replied to your quote: “[I]t may be…
I like larval subjects a lot too
Yeah, I really like that one too. I’m just getting into the whole object-oriented phenomenon, so I’m discovering its associated blogs really slowly. So far, I do like the fact that a lot of the philosophers have blogs accompanying their main works - it makes...
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“A traditional Zen story speaks of a temple novice who hoped to attain enlightenment by chopping a cat in half with a sword. Witnessing the preparations for this atrocity, the head monk cried out and asked the newcomer to explain himself. “I am cutting the cat in two with one sword,” was the young man’s reply.
Outdoing this supposed paradox of duality and unity, the monk...
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interruptions replied to your quote: “[I]t may be that with this anchoring of ontology…
I haven’t picked up any of the OOP stuff, though I’ve been meaning too for a while. It looks like they’re doing some Cool Things.
Yeah, I really like it. It gives me a sense of excitement that I haven’t felt in philosophy in quite a while. Also, the style of a lot of the Speculative Realists...
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“[I]t may be that with this anchoring of ontology in a single ascetic dualism,...”
– “Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects” by Graham Harman, pg. 99 - Harman’s referring to the tool-being/broken-tool present within every object at all times, the dualism that makes up nearly the whole of Heidegger’s philosophy.
I think I’m just going to...
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itscandidlycara:
I’m seeing Radiohead tomorrow.
As in, that’s something that’s actually happening.
Also, omg, this set list from Miami.
Read More
Holy fuck.
So jealous.
I went to church today...
apophaticrevelations:
“…some unsolicited advice for the candidates:
First of all, don’t call them...”
– Jorge Ramos, writing for TIME magazine on the Republican party’s failure to connect with Latino voters. (via hermiginnyhybrid)
That’s a good point. It’s obvious why calling someone an ‘illegal’ is hurtful and wrong, I think, especially when there’s more accurate terms...
The ontico-ontological possibility of anything
dirtyreggae:
is tea.
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“i saw the best minds of my generation, employed by non-profits, tumbling, bored...”
– hedgerows via whiskeyrobot via h8in on the beat generation which is SO KEY
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the89thkey:
cacophonouschoas:
feeltherevenge:
Social anxiety isn’t cool.
OCD isn’t cool.
Bipolar disorder isn’t cool.
Depression isn’t cool.
Cutting isn’t cool.
Phobias aren’t cool.
Trauma isn’t cool.
Sleep disorders aren’t cool.
Eating disorders aren’t cool.
They’re real things, they’re scary, and pretending you have them is just fucking obnoxious and an insult.
as someone who...
anarchyagogo:
““I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a healthy, loving home, whether the parents are gay or not.””
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Barack Obama
(via loveyourchaos)
And I don’t understand why people hate Obama-he clearly has the right mindset. (unlike fucking Rick Santorum)
(via...
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“in art too man loves a void. it is impossible for him to comprehend as art...”
– Hans Arp, Notes From a Dada Diary (1932)
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God, I found some old debate files. Topics...
interruptions:
sassmadness:
interruptions:
ECOMANAGERIALISTIC TECHNOCRATIC AGRICULTURAL DISCOURSES ARE ANTHROPOCENTRIC AND WILL EVENTUALLY DRIVE THE HUMAN RACE TO OMNICIDE
TURNING TO THE STATE TO PROTECT WOMEN’S RIGHTS INTERRUPTS CONSCIOUSNESS OF PATRIARCHAL VIOLENCE’S CONNECTION TO CAPITAL
YOUR IDENTITY POLITICS LACKS ANY THEORY OF HOW OPPRESSION IS MATERIALIZED AND REPRODUCED-THE...
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BUS DETOURS FUCK MY SHIT UP
And other adventures from the life of Sterling.
“People who are privileged by the system can feel guilty about this, or we can...”
– Peter Gelderloos, Lines in Sand
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interesting.
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Hmmm…
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I’ve been saying it for a while now … betray your privilege, use it wisely.
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This is brilliant.
(via anothertheletter)
Probably part of the reason that...
sijemesouviensbien:
hollovv replied to your post: hollovv replied to your post: hollovv replied to…
Oh I agree but to say that something is relational doesn’t mean you can’t give it an ontology… I feel like most of these problems are problems with construing science as a physicalist atomism, and I agree that science in that vein is problematic!
hollovv replied to your post: hollovv replied to...
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machistado:
dslovecraft replied to your photo: Why do otherwise lovely people have to make rape…
Because joking =/= condoning.
Joking = directly contributing to rape culture
All rapists think everyone else rapes and joking about the subject normalizes it in their minds.
Stop it.
Not only this, but what’s funny about such a joke? Seriously, what? Most jokes you can point out what...
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Atlas Still Shrugs
nogodnogovernemt:
http://www.squidoo.com/atlas-still-shrugs
No other book has influenced my life philosophically, politically or emotionally the way that Atlas Shrugged has. It would be fair to say that I am who I am because of this book. This book defined the meaning of life for me and gave me a better understanding of society as a whole. I can still remember how I felt the first...
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Philosopher's Dog: Mindfuck →
philosophersdog:
notoriousamarius:
philosophersdog:
Thomas Hobbes’ social contract theory is often presented as a group of people agreeing to forfeit some of their freedoms for the sake of bettering their life in one way or another (not getting killed, their land taken… etc.). But, in fact, Hobbes’ never claims that a person must give up some of…
I don’t get this, what’s the difference...
rhizombie:
machistado:
rhizombie replied to your post: What is your stance on hate crime laws? Should they exist? Do they do more harm or good?
Statistically its been documented that violence towards minorities generally increases after hate crime legislation is passed. I think the issue is so much bigger than simply seeking “legal protection” at that hands of the prison industrial complex...
