May 2013
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“You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation,...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, “Either/Or” (via ohfairies)
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RUGSLA2013
I had the chance to go to Los Angeles with the Rutgers Undergraduate Geography Society (RUGS) for a geography conference. This is the playlist I would have recorded for the trip, if I still had enough time to record it and burn it to a CD before leaving. Alas, I had to finish a draft of my honors thesis. Nevertheless, it was a wonderful trip. The photograph is of my friends and I in Joshua Tree...
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WatchI have an obligation to hit the dancefloor when I’m not behind the decks. I got vined by my co-DJ during a split set last night.
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koncretum:
The sheer number of women forced into prostitution (through both physical force and poverty) by the collapse of the USSR is something I can think of hardly a more accurate description of than a mass rape, and yet liberal discourse allows no provisions for addressing it as such or recognizing it as an act of violence done by one class to another (specifically international capitalist...
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History of Capitalism Summer Camp →
Finance: using business archives, accounting concepts, corporate structures, ratio analysis, cash flow analysis, pro forma financial statements, consolidated statements, valuation, present value, portfolio, risk, CAP-M, bank structure, capital markets
Statistics: Random variables, descriptive statistics, distributions (law of large numbers, bell curve), hypothesis testing (p-values, t tests,...
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“Harvey’s general argument, then, runs something like this: Neoclassicism is...”
– Trevor J. Barnes, “‘Not Only…But Also:’ Quantitative and Critical Geography,” The Professional Geographer 61 [2009]
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The Generative Role of Geographic Categorization →
This was my honors thesis. It was a frustrating and fulfilling project.
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Me: Philosophy isn't a profound or metaphysical sounding observation about the world. Philosophy is when someone asks "why should I believe that?" That's where the magic happens.
Housemate: But why should I believe that?
April 2013
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Nicolas Jaar | Boiler Room Set →
Simply unbelievable.
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Why the Response to the Boston Bombing Was a... →
Here’s what we broadcast to every terrorist worldwide yesterday:
By spending around $40 you can cause our entire country to soil itself for 24 hours, cause a major U.S. metropolitan area to completely shut down, and cost us around 300 million dollars
By spending around $40 you can turn United States of America into frightened children. You can make them afraid to go about their business....
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“A typical maneuver of postcolonial theorists is to say something like this:...”
– Vivek Chibber, interviewed in Jacobin
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amazinghome-design asked: hi! :) would you like to check my architecture blog? thank you very much! :) i alway follow back :)
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“I’m working on a project in Memphis, and Memphis is on the Mississippi River and...”
– Diana Balmori, “Breaking Down Walls,” Guernica.
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I like science, but I hate “science.”
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While making sure my neon chic//futuredisco party went well as more people started to arrive, I expressed my concern to my friends that the party was beginning to achieve supra-individual functional states of organization.
Luckily it achieved homeostasis, so the worst thing that happened was beer getting stolen from the fridge.
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“For the condition of the holy people of Christ has become so pitiable, that up...”
– Thomas Müntzer, “Sermon to the Princes,” 1524
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tanacetum-vulgare:
ourcatastrophe:
it’s really interesting how the people I’ve seen talking about their disgust towards children pretty much always bring up something about “sticky hands”
by and large I have not found children to have particularly sticky hands. I think the main way they create chaos is by being clumsy, bad at cleaning up after themselves, and having a poor grasp of adult...
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“All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a...”
– In addition to the irony of posting this common boilerplate in an electronic format, I’m also struck by the fact that it might well (unintentionally) apply to human brains, even if they are not of a like kind with digital computers.
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Tensnake - Get It Right
I’m back from LA...
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...”
– E.B. White (via interruptions)
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“The Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013, passed by Congress to keep the...”
– SSRC
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“Feminist postmodernism is to be credited with making important intellectual...”
– Miranda Fricker, “Feminism in Epistemolgy: Pluralism without Postmodernism,” The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy (ed. M. Fricker & J. Hornsby), p. 148 [2000]
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“It is argued, first, that Marx predicted that the economic condition of the...”
– Jean E. Howard & Scott Cutler Shershow, Marxism Now, Shakespeare Now (via howtotalktogirlsdialectically)
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When complete strangers offer one another help in identifying the tracks they love on an untagged DJ mix, we see the faintest glimmer of full communism.
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