April 2009
1 post
Wunderkammer Magazine →
rampart-walls:
Our magazine has launched. Updated daily. Check it out.
February 2009
6 posts
anti-Obama gestures →
, or, how to be a complete asshole all the damn time.
“When I ask myself how I know I believe, I have no satisfactory answer at all, no...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via wesleyhill) (via portraitoftheartistasayoungman)
January 2009
1 post
Super Obama World →
December 2008
4 posts
“You can’t run an election claiming you own an iPod and garnering...”
– WSJ Blog - Obama Zunegate
“In this way, Zizek’s allegedly progressive thought leads directly into a...”
– ha
November 2008
6 posts
“A few hours ago, the world felt like a different place.”
– a storekeeper in Caracas, Venezuela (Times)
“National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary...”
– Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country
October 2008
3 posts
Palin as President →
“The agelastes [Rabelais’s word for those who do not laugh], the...”
– Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel
September 2008
20 posts
“But the purpose of this blog entry is not to discuss politics (a subject banned...”
– Roger Ebert’s Blog on his recent “Creationism: Your questions answered”
“The young in the elite universities-the youth of an imperial power- feel the...”
– Roberto Manganeira Unger & Cornel West, The Future Of American Progressivism
“We are unknown, we knowers, to ourselves…Of necessity we remain strangers to...”
– Nietzche, as quoted in the epigraph of Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos (via portraitoftheartistasayoungman)
Was Feminism Necessary? →
“You may be sure that I am not the first one to notice that feminist women are unerotic.” “Simone de Beauvoir had her guy in Jean-Paul Sartre, a high-strung couple if ever there was one.”
A miserable article by Harvey Mansfield
Selling Ice Cream, With Sprinkles of Anarchism →
Does the film deal with spiritual deadness as one of the protagonist’s main issues?
The Wall: Yes, Pink is “comfortably numb” and must peel his face off in order to become real
The Matrix: Yes, Thomas Anderson is in a self-induced coma
American Beauty: Yes, Lester Burnham has never felt “this sedated” and says, “In a way, I’m dead already”
Fight Club: Yes, Tyler awakens Jack to the reality of...
“Insistence in advance on coalitional “unity” as a goal assumes that solidarity,...”
– Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
Purgatory Mates →
My one true culture hero, the poet W. H. Auden, invented something that he called a “parlor game,” though it strikes me as something more like a moral exercise. He called it Purgatory Mates, and it works like this.
First, you think of two people who despise each other, or, if they’re dead, despised each other, or, if they never met, would have utterly loathed each other had they been given the...
“Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or...”
– Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“The line of thought common to Blumenberg, Nietzche, Freud, and Davidson suggests...”
– Richard Rorty, Contingency, irony, and solidarity
Books Sarah Palin tried to ban from the Alaska...
rach:
(via librarian.net) Because reading about teen sexuality is really the problem.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Canterbury Tales by Chaucer Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Forever by Judy Blume Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Lord of the Flies by William Golding One...
“Shortly after becoming mayor, former city officials and Wasilla residents said,...”
– Times [whoa]
August 2008
41 posts
“We must close the book on the bleeding wounds of the old politics of division...”
– David Brooks
The Messiah-Complex Complex →
Conservatives appear genuinely freaked out about the intense loyalty Obama inspires. They’re used to their side deeply believing in a presidential candidate. Seeing it happen to the other party is a novel and disconcerting experience. How long has it been since Democrats had genuine enthusiasm for their nominee? Nobody loved John Kerry. I found Al Gore inspiring, but not many others did....
“Faith in the power of intelligence to imagine a future which is the projection...”
– John Dewey, “The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy”
“Dewey, but not Russell, can adopt Locke’s suggestion that role of the...”
– Richard Rorty, “The Future of Philosophy”
Ubiquity is kind of amazing →
Lets you map and insert maps anywhere; translate on-page; search amazon, google, wikipedia, yahoo, youtube, etc.; digg and twitter; lookup and insert yelp review; get the weather; syntax highlight any code you find; and a lot more. Ubiquity “command list” to see them all.
“Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of cities of the...”
– Walker Percy, The Moviegoer (via portraitoftheartistasayoungman)
