April 2012
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amouthygirl-deactivated20120409 asked: Hello, how are ya? THIS HAS BEEN A RANDOM ASK.
“The low wage of migrant farm workers is not a sign that they are “exploited”...”
– Can Rothbard die forever and undergo perpetual castration in hell?
See also:
The real legacy of Cesar Chavez is negative: forget the charisma and the hype and learn some economics.
h/t: Luis
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IF I MAY QUOTE LUIS, “I CANT. I WONT”
No.
The "turnoff" "turnon" game. Ask me anything and I...
korakaghaz:
I’m legit curious if anyone believes that I am capable of answering this.
Sure. Why not? I’m super bored.
March 2012
160 posts
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hodos-ano-kato:
Okay I need to ask an honest question… Are these ‘speculative realists’ ontological, epistemological, platonic, scientific, mathematical or naive realists? Are they ALL of them? How do they qualify ‘reality’? Do they not know there’s a distinction? It makes their philosophies incredibly unclear (especially as regards representation and materiality)?
Edit: Wikipedia says they’re...
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“Žižek goes on to maintain an adherence to the concept of truth within a grand...”
– (via: http://ernstbloch.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/the-ontology-of-quantum-physics-and-transcendental-materialism-chapter-14/)
Okay, totally into this. Just became re-interested/invested in Less Than Nothing.
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hodos-ano-kato replied to your post: hodos-ano-kato replied to your post: Less Than…
He goes into it in “the reality of the virtual” using Lacan’s trauma as homologous to Einstein’s theory that connects mass and curvature of space and the part in “Zizek!” is fucking great I thought… A positively charged void…
No, don’t get me wrong, I thought it was great (existence as a huge...
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hodos-ano-kato replied to your post: Less Than Nothing Table of Contents
Actually his use of quantum physics isn’t too awful; honestly it’s one of the things me and him get along about well. I’m interested in some of these sectionheads - hegel v nietzsche, will v drive, lacan v heidegger, aufhebung… should be good!
Really? I actually haven’t read anything he’s said about quantum...
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Less Than Nothing Table of Contents
In conjunction with some discussions going on on my dash right now, I thought I’d share this. It’s the table of contents for Less Than Nothing. Even just from this, it seems like Zizek’s being a lot more systematic than usual (though I would hope so, considering this thing is 1200 pages).
After a cut, because, why not?:
[[MORE]]INTRODUCTION: EPPUR SI MUOVE
I THE DRINK BEFORE
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Neuroscientists argue over Jennifer Aniston →
What the fuck am I looking at?
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hodos-ano-kato replied to your quote: What about Zizek? Rather than removing the Real…
oh god come on - claiming thtat reality can’t be totalized under rational conceptualization doean’t mean Foucault has no room for ontology. this is just pure and simple bad reading.
Yeah, I felt that might be the case. I figured Foucault wasn’t sloppy enough to not allow any room for ontology in...
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“What about Zizek? Rather than removing the Real from the radar and thus...”
– Zizek Beyond Foucault by Heiko Feldner and Fabio Vighi, p. 27.
It seems that the problems they’re saying Zizek addresses and Foucault glosses over are ontological problems. Foucault is able to point out the history of seeming ahistorical ideas (e.g. ‘Truth’), but isn’t able...
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hodos-ano-kato replied to your post: hodos-ano-kato replied to your quote: This is the…
Yeah I more was trying to egg you on to elaborate if anything haha (negentropy as regrouping/recreation)… we’ll have to discuss the ‘subject’ of politics (as well as how it relates to the other) sometime cuz that could be fun
Totally. Even though I’ve been getting more into epistemology and...
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hodos-ano-kato replied to your quote: This is the broader point I’d like to make:…
What about negentropy? And I would also argue for a relation between subject-society/community-culture where the subject is largely as emergent from a community
Well, first off, let me just clarify that I meant those as really tentative statements. Those were the embers of a possible fire of thought, but I...
“The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied...”
– Samuel Beckett, from ‘The End’ (via heksenhaus)
“This is the broader point I’d like to make: Entropy is not a negative term. So...”
– (Levi Bryant on his Larval Subjects blog.)
I’m beginning to think that entropy within systems is an essential part of revolutionary politics. And Harman’s insistence that every object always withdraws from the elements of the systems it’s inscribed in and from the system itself...
logicallypositive:
interruptions:
logicallypositive:
why do people even pay attention to the official unemployment numbers going off that picture?
like the reported unemployment rate is statistically manipulated to high hell and means nothing. you have to dig a little deeper to find the real unemployment rating and look for U-6, not U-1. and hwen you look at U-6 its close to 20%.
U-6 is...
Ms. Blaspheming Bitch: Woman Dies After Being... →
rubyshimmer:
BTW THE ENTIRE INCIDENT IS ON VIDEO!
Anna Brown, 29, died on the floor of a jail cell within an hour of being dragged from St. Mary’s Hospital. As blood clots spread from her legs to her lungs the hospital staff was busy refusing her further treatment. She was arrested…
God fucking damnit.
White Man Kills a Black Couple with Kids because... →
vagabondaesthetics:
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vivalaevolucion:
HAS EVERYONE SEEN THIS? This happened recently. The story goes that this father was playing outside with his kids and went to go talk to this guy(the white man), because he was shooting his guns in the area where they were playing. The white man came over and shot him in the head FOR NO REASON. Did the same thing to the wife WHILE THE KIDS...
Ohmygod.
Just stepped inside a vaulted room at work to deliver a shipment of xBox’s. Inside there was every third party xbox game ever made. All on the wall, alphebatized, on little shelves.
It was a hella secret room, with a manager eyeing me the entire time I was in there. It was even key-card access and whatnot. Intense.
“It’s simple: we kill the Batman.”
– Karl Marx (via orioleorgans)
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“At 14, I was listening to all the Warp Records stuff. Aphex Twin and...”
– Skrillex talks to us about the artists— Aphex Twin, Daft Punk, Justice— that originally inspired him to make electronic music, and more. (via pitchfork)
Skrillex is so fucking weird. Like, sometimes really bad music, but his influences are spot on? So. Odd.
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bbthity:
Dinner: cashews
tyvm for da freedom, Kapital.
Pistachios right here. Being poor as an act of freedom, or something.
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emptylight replied to your post: The experience and emotions tied to listening to…
idioteque is one of my favorite songs ever, it’s almost a spiritual experience
Dang, I feel like I’m totally jiving on the same level as you/your tumblr tonight: between the total need to get laid and the major appreciation for Idioteque, I feel we’re on the same page.
Seriously, though,...
“Whether I am right in all this or not, they certainly do smile at you here,...”
– Baudrillard, America, 34 (via trivial-brew)
I’ve started noticing that I do this all the time. I’ll smile at people at work, because we’re forced to interact for those short few seconds while passing each other, but I secretly hate them because they’re where I am, and that...
The experience and emotions tied to listening to Kid A are like witnessing the stillborn birth of a child while simultaneously having the opportunity to see her play in the afterlife on Imax. It’s an album of sparking paradox. It’s cacophonous yet tranquil, experimental yet familiar, foreign yet womb-like, spacious yet visceral, textured yet vaporous, awakening yet dreamlike,...
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jpegartifacts:
bbthity replied to your post: Comparing this to other albums is like comparing…
your analogies are the best
I didn’t come up with it. It comes from the greatest music review ever written:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6656-kid-a/
Seriously, this is the best piece of music writing I’ve ever read. This should be framed somewhere. I almost went into music criticism...
Please, get this out there. This is about the... →
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Kängnäve: A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock:... →
rhizombie:
workandentropy:
This is is a 13 DISC INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ALL-WOMEN AND WOMAN-FRONTED PUNK ACTS FROM 1977-1989 AND FUCKING CHRIST IF YOU DON’T HAVE THIS YET YOUR MUSICAL LIFE IS NOT COMPLETE. ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE THINGS I HAVE EVER FOUND ON THE INTERNET.
I haven’t listened to this is in a while so I put it on and HOLY SHIT I remember now how FUCKING AWESOME this is. Like...
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amouthygirl replied to your post: Sometimes I wish there was a way that I could…
I’m going to send you messages all the time now. We can megablog together.
Totally down for this. You get all the approvals.
I like my men like I like my coffee,
penumbras:
nowhere near my vagina.
GPOY
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Sometimes I wish there was a way that I could ‘like’ messages in my inbox the same way that I can like posts on here. Because sometimes I get messages that are perfect on their own, and need no commentary from me (because I’d probably ruin it), but I feel like a jerk for not letting people know I read their messages explicitly.
Or maybe because the message exchange is definitely...
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“And yet, mainstream academics like Graff seldom object to these linguistic...”
– Donaldo Macedo, in the introduction to the 30th anniversary addition to Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”, p. 21-22, Continuum Press.
Killin’ it.
sinidentidades:
Seriously, you don’t know gross until some freshly showered dude that you’re about to hook up has junk that smells like Irish Spring.
I don’t want your cock anywhere around my face if it smells like vintage laundry detergent.
Sorry.
This is the best thing I’ve seen all morning.
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How to Get Your Book Banned in Arizona
fishingboatproceeds:
Step 1: Write about people who aren’t white.
Step 2: THERE IS NO STEP TWO.
You will very rarely see me curse, tumblypoos, but…but…I mean, what the fuck? How is this even possible? This reads like an Onion article.
To be clear, it is now ILLEGAL to teach de la Pena’s novel (which I’ve read and which is excellent) in schools, not because the book contains violence or drug...
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Right-Wing Photo Purportedly of The Trayvon Martin... →
mohandasgandhi:
thepoliticalfreakshow:
[NOTE: I’ve seen the right-wing do some pretty insulting and downright demeaning things to everyone opposite of their political party. But this takes the cake for the most shocking! The right-wing and its followers are devoid of any rational grasp on anything remotely related to reality!
Look for this to be on Fox News nonstop for the next week! I’m...
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oscillating-infinity:
sterwood:
oscillating-infinity:
sterwood replied to your post:I have still yet to see anyone give me Zizek’s…
I’m with marxandsparks on this one: I’m not exactly sure where he’s supposed to have refuted him. I’m sure he disagrees with him in places, but that’s probably true for any commentary on Adorno (or anyone for that matter
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However, are not Schelling’s obscure...
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oscillating-infinity:
sterwood replied to your post:I have still yet to see anyone give me Zizek’s…
I’m with marxandsparks on this one: I’m not exactly sure where he’s supposed to have refuted him. I’m sure he disagrees with him in places, but that’s probably true for any commentary on Adorno (or anyone for that matter
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However, are not Schelling’s obscure ruminations about the Absolute prior...