January 2012
279 posts
let's give it back to the squares: The Sheer... →
akagoldfish:
As a post-script to last night’s conversation about the swastika and how attempts to suppress it in cultural contexts (such as in Hinduism) unrelated to the Holocaust are quintessentially white supremacist, I’m reposting this article. Someone asked why, given white supremacism’s traditional hostility to the Jewish people, the treating of the swastika as universally hateful...
December 2011
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golehyas replied to your photo: Yes, that is Ron Paul leading the polls in Iowa….
last time I checked, his percentage points look pretty mediocre in comparison to mitt and newt
On the national level, they still do. But the negative advertising blitz against Gingrich in Iowa has really cut into his support for the upcoming caucuses there. Paul has benefited perhaps more than any other...
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Merry Christmas, &c.
Still love you all - visiting family and so on until the new year. Regularly scheduled programming including ranting about the existential analytic of Dasein and the tribulations of trying to keep “existential”, “existence” and “existentiell” straight in my damn head forthcoming in 2012.
Going on an indefinite hiatus from Tumblr.
Other priorities need to take precedence for the foreseeable future.
“Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures,...”
– J.G. Ballard, footnote to The Atrocity Exhibition (via plz-gro)
Embarassing Shelves in my Personal Library
1. The Libertarian Literature Shelf: The Journals of Ayn Rand, Capitalism and Freedom, The Virtue of Selfishness, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, A Patriot’s History of the United States, The Federalist Papers, CATO Institute Pocket Constitution
2. The Genre Fiction Shelf: A slew of Tom Clancy novels with an emphasis on the Jack Ryan series, a box of 70s&80s era issues of Analog,...
matryoshhka replied to your post: That awkward moment when a family friend reccomends Glenn Beck’s biography of George Washington to you
that awkward moment where you increase earth’s utility by exterminating said person and all his spawn. lol jk. not rly.
We’re having a good conversation, he seems like somebody that would be useful to cultivate a relationship with, and then...
That awkward moment when a family friend...
“You’re going to law school, you should really study the truth of where our Constitution and our country came from”.
Look, We Can Either Study for Our Law School...
It’s been a long semester. At this point we’ve read hundreds of pages of judicial opinions and sat through countless hours of lectures on legal theory and case law, and now we’re down to the wire. Exams are less than a week away, and the way I look at it, we’ve only got two options: we can either buckle down and hit the books harder than we ever have in our entire lives, or else can can...
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apophaticrevelations replied to your post: Heidegger on the Cartesian cogito: INSUFFICIENTLY…
The Necessity of Recovering the Question of the Meaning of Being is the ultimate trump card to play on anyone anywhere. Oh, you’re rejecting my grad school app? I’m not sure you’ve grounded yourself in the ontological conditions of such a gesture.
This is a rhetorical move I need to add to my...
Whenever I drink in the afternoon
sonofapritch:
I get super tired and super depressed. Woo hoo.
If I drink in the afternoon, I get super fired. Woo hoo indeed.
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bbcity replied to your post: Heidegger on the Cartesian cogito: INSUFFICIENTLY… what is the prior ontological question? also, i think i added you on fb a few weeks ago but now i’m not so sure if it was you or if i am an idiot
THE QUESTION OF THE INTERPRETATION OF THE MEANING OF BEING.
He’s saying that Kant and Descartes both operate with a received, uncritical concept of Being...
Heidegger on the Cartesian cogito: INSUFFICIENTLY DIRECTED AT THE NECESSARILY PRIOR ONTOLOGICAL QUESTION
Heidegger on Kant on time: INSUFFICIENTLY DIRECTED AT THE NECESSARILY PRIOR ONTOLOGICAL QUESTION
I think a pattern is beginning to emerge.
I love you like a love song baby
golehyas:
constant-truthvalues:
golehyas:
what does that mean
ah. Lady Gaga’s enigmatic love for music, comparable to her love for people…
but it’s not lady gaga, it’s selena gomez
This song is the most annoying simile ever. Every time I hear it on the radio I want to pull my hair out. In what respect is her love like a love song? Apparently, it’s in that she, “keep[s]...
majidrazvi:
I wish my word processor had a “PHILOSOPHY MODE!” button that disabled any and all red squiggling of words.
Chris Matthews is about to finish off his...
This is not a joke.
“…it somehow became possible, toward the end of the nineteenth century, to take...”
– Rorty, Contingency, Irony, Solidarity, p. 39 (via waitingforbrodot)
This is some fucking hyperreal Baudrillardian shit... →
It’s straight out of a Don DeLillo novel: A few hours after television producers set up a replica of Occupy Wall Street for the filming of a new episode of Law and Order Special Victims Unit, the real Occupy Wall Street announced plans to occupy the fake one. At 11:30 p.m. the call to occupy the set went out on Twitter with the hash tag #Mockupy. Located at nearby Foley Square, the fake...
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Occupy Boston Still Encamped
Presumably the raid will come when there aren’t news helicopters overhead and a thousand people dancing in Davis Square.
Marginal Revolutions: "Medical Patents Must Die"
Prometheus gave man fire, thankfully he didn’t charge every time man lit a match. Prometheus Labs in contrast wants to charge patients for a rule that says when to increase or decrease a drug in response to a blood test. Quoting Tim Lee: “The patent does not cover the drug itself—that patent expired years ago—nor does it cover any specific machine or procedure for measuring the metabolite...
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DAMNIT LIVESTREAM MAN
STOP BITCHING ABOUT FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING
YOU ARE RUINING MY VOYEURISTIC CONSUMPTION OF YOUR ACTION
DID YOU REALLY JUST SAY “END THE FED”
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I know Zizek said they ought not to fall in love...
but tonight I think they’re entitled to, at least a little bit.
I’m certainly not going to talk shit if they sing “Oh When the Saints Go Marching In” and dance in the streets before their homes are thrown in the back of garbage trucks.
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Looking Back
Journalist: Do you believe in a life after this one?
Leonard Cohen: [laughing] I hardly believe in this one.
I got a job in the financial sector (shout out to the John Hancock Bond and Corporate Finance Group) the week before OccupyBoston started. The irony was not lost on me.
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Occupy Boston
is probably going to be dispersed in the immediate future. They lost their court battle, and the injunction protecting them was voided. They’re preparing for a confrontation with the police at midnight. In the wake of the past few weeks worth of raids, OccupyBoston is one of the last major #ows encampments still active in the United States.
They’ve hardly been perfect - they’ve...
Taking a bath instead of showering feels oddly decadent. Also, unmasculine. I don’t quite understand why either of those things is true.
But you can’t smoke a cigarette in the shower, so I think it’s clear what considerations come out on top here.
akagoldfish:
thefuror replied to your post: thefuror replied to your post:…
There’s no need. When talking about oppression within society, women are clearly a minority group. Numbers are irrelevant in this situation. Anyone who feels the need to get involved in such a discussion should be aware of that.
But isn’t the word “minority”, especially when applied to women problematic in and of...
I go through phases where I'm addicted to cable...
TONIGHT IS THE LATTER. DEFINITELY THE LATTER.
Don't be the easy girl.
akagoldfish:
ayolucas:
If I can get you to start sexually talking to me by the end of the first day, it makes me think of you as an easy girl. If I can get you half naked by the first time we see each other, what kind of a look is that for you? If you’re this easy with me, how easy are you with other guys?
kohenari:
Socrates and Glaucon on the Home Shopping Network
SOCRATES: So it seems to me that such a thing exists which can both sterilize and clean: The EZ-Klean Mop™.
GLAUCON: Why, you’re right, Socrates.
SOCRATES: Are you satisfied now, Glaucon?
GLAUCON: Well… not just yet, Socrates. I’d like to own such a mop.
SOCRATES: You can, Glaucon. How much are you willing to pay for the...
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Hitchens on Nietzsche: "Trial of the Will" →
We (by which I mean I mean The Noometry School crowd, roughly) had a little fun a few weeks back making fun of Dawkins, Hitchens, et alia and comparing them unfavorably to Nietzsche. A poorly written paper comparing them somewhat less unfavorably than the lot of us would be liable to was roundly mocked. Interpersonal rapport grounded on shared objects of derision was developed. Good times were...
Okay. What the fuck is this shit.
phredosophy:
akagoldfish:
anticapitalist:
You can’t be feminist without being vegan?
Seriously?
Is this even a thing?
Reason #123094817230491827349 why I’m not a big fan of the tumblr social justice community.
Oh god…
I imagine the argument would go something like this
1.If you are a feminist, you support equality.
2. Equal treatment of animals is a part of equality
3. Somebody who...
“But with this, the ontical priority of the question of being has… become...”
– Uh, if you fucking say so, sure. You’re the boss for now, Martin.
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“I also want you to know it will be on Inauguration Day under my administration...”
– Rep. Bachmann, via Politico
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“Basic concepts determine the way in which we get an understanding beforehand of...”
– Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, Introduction, I.3, “The Ontological Priority of the Question of Being”
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