August 2011
1 post
“The revenant keeps watch
over the dead and the living.
…
Without...”
– Heraclitus, fragment 123, fragment 60
July 2011
7 posts
“For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others...”
– Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapter XIII
Black Milk — The Steve Dress →
Why of course you want to wear a dress emblazoned with Steve Buscemi’s face on it.
“The Rue de l’Hirondelle […] its clientele made up of anarchists,...”
– Alexandre Privat d’Anglemont, Paris anecdote
LRB blog on the normalisation of WikiLeaks →
‘We’re going to fuck them all,’ Assange wrote in an email in January 2007, just after the site had been set up. ‘We’re going to crack the world open and let it flower into something new.’
This is not a reform project, nor should it be.
Essential summer listening: World Hood -...
Eclectic Epiphytes and Electrophoretic Epigrams:... →
Fascinating piece: “What will happen to the Kerguelen cabbage, this wondrous vegetable that saved the lives of so many sailors in centuries past? What have we done to Terra Australis?”
February 2010
1 post
Fichte's Greatest Hits
“Nevertheless, the idea of an infinity to be thus completed floats as a vision before us, and is rooted in our innermost nature. We are obliged, as it enjoins us, to resolve the contradiction; though we cannot even think it possible of solution, and foresee that in no moment of an existence prolonged to all eternity will we ever be able to consider it possible. But this is just the mark in...
December 2009
2 posts
November 2009
2 posts
September 2009
1 post
(A) Philosopher's Lineage
Going backwards, through documents, in proper genealogical style…:
In Foucault’s essay “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History,” at the bottom of page 143 of the collection language, counter-memory, practice (ed. Brouchard), Foucault quotes Nietzsche as he writes, “It is now impossible to believe that ‘in the rending of the veil, truth remains truthful; we have lived...
August 2009
1 post
July 2009
2 posts
“Seul, inconnu, les dos courbé, les mains croisées,
Triste, et le jour pour moi...”
– “Demain, dès l’aube…” Victor Hugo
“…et m’aidaient à mieux comprendre la contradiction que c’est de chercher dans la...”
– Du côte de chez Swann, Proust
March 2009
3 posts
“Who dares?” he demanded hoarsely of the courtiers who stood near him...”
– Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death”
“There were moments when…you saw the intimation of a dream of love rising...”
– Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
I’m really loving this album by Rocketship...
February 2009
10 posts
My new favorite song.
Tujiko Noriko - Shayou...
“A *little* reason, to be sure, a seed of wisdom scattered from star to...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Book 3, “Before Sunrise”
“The challenge of modernity is to live a life without illusions, without becoming...”
– Antonio Gramsci
In honor of Empire Of the Sun from yesterday, PNAU...
Magoo does it again:
Empire Of the Sun - Walking...
“One person succeeded. He lifted the veil of the goddess at Saïs. And what did...”
– Novalis
Just. Chill.
Mu - “Destroying Human...
January 2009
17 posts
Wale - W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E.
The greatest shout out...
Slumdog Millionaire
What a fun and life-affirming neo-colonial romp through third world slums… This might not be so fatuous if its trite filmmaking clichés weren’t slathered in condescending fetishization of the exotic Indian Other. Brown People! Poor Brown People!! For some unfathomable reason Danny Boyle decided to shoot this atrocity as kinetically, frantically, and brightly as possible, rendering...
Books
Three books that everyone should know in-depth, and although I cannot count myself amongst the learned yet, I am working on it.
In chronological order:
1. Plato’s Republic
2. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
3. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Buffalo Beast | The 50 Most Loathsome People in... →
Hilariously on point.
Reverse Shot's 11 Offenses of 2008 | Reverse Shot →
The always dependable, nearly pitch-perfect, list of the eleven worst cinematic offenses of the past year, courtesy of Reverse Shot. Always an enjoyable read.
In preparation for the show at Irving Plaza in NYC...
WatchInterview with Claudio Tamburrini | One of the few who was able to escape after being kidnapped and tortured by the Argentine military junta.
Read more about him here: The Global Game, and here: Cronica de una Fuga
h/t The Global Game
“To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold...”
– From William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence.”
Read the rest here: Auguries of Innocence
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
Absolutely...
Sweeping Generalizations with Blockhead: Get Off... →
Someone had to say it…
My Genome, My Self - Steven Pinker Gets to the... →
“La photographie, c’est la vérité, et le cinéma, c’est vingt-quatre...”
– “Bruno Forestier,” Le Petit Soldat, 1960
November 2008
2 posts
“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry its progress, ignorance its...”
– Michel de Montaigne, “Of Cripples”
“Buddha and I, distinct through a billion kalpas of time,
Yet not separate for...”
– Zen master Myōchō (Daitō Kokushi)
October 2008
11 posts
Borges y yo
— El hacedor (1960)
Al otro, a Borges, es a quien le ocurren las cosas. Yo camino por Buenos Aires y me demoro, acaso ya mecánicamente, para mirar el arco de un zaguán y la puerta cancel; de Borges tengo noticias por el correo y veo su nombre en una terna de profesores o en un diccionario biográfico. Me gustan los relojes de arena, los mapas, la tipografía del siglo XVIII, las etimologías,...