January 2012
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Jan 26th
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“It is by no means certain that the application of deconstructivist literary...”
– Marc Augé, Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity, p. 30 This book is making me roll my eyes a lot, but it has some interesting observations as well. This point, in particular, can be extended to a wide variety of other academic fields.
Jan 25th
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Gary Hall - Withdrawal of labour from publishers... →
20yardsoflinen: Media theorist Gary Hall withdraws his labour from presses supporting the Research Works Act.
Jan 25th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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WatchWatch
Post-Minimalist Percussion in Aisle 12: Michael Gordon’s Timber
Jan 19th
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Politics
interruptions: so-meta: The more money you cut to poor and young people, apparently the “smarter” your government automatically becomes! The more draconian and brutal the cuts, the more “serious” the politician proposing them. The more money you give to rich people, the more “prosperous” your country becomes.
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Food52: Baked Eggs with Mushrooms, Leeks,... →
Dinner tonight.
Jan 17th
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“I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (via howtotalktogirlsdialectically)
Jan 16th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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becoming-wave asked: First of all, I suspect it's even more foolish to judge a person's position based on a short quote found on an animated gif. Also, why do you imagine she's not including Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia? I doubt she was refering to the United States alone, or any single event. No, I suspect she had a more long-view historical perspective than that. There are nuanced and well argued...
Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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Nice Guys™
bbcity:hollovv:bbcity: Have you ever liked someone and then been nice to her? Have you ever been interested in someone for reasons not circumscribed within how ~physically attractive~ she is? Have you ever hung out with someone and tried to get to know her? I guess we should congratulate you for not acting like a complete douchebag? But perhaps (just maybe) you should de-convince yourself...
Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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“Libertarianism becomes self-defeating as soon as it recognises the existence of...”
– George Monbiot - ‘Why libertarians must deny climate change, in one short take’ (via guardian)
Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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“Retail is the only industry that can manage our city centres… We are the only...”
– Eric Kuhne, quoted in “Eric’s World,” The National [May 2008] Because living is just like shopping, we have mall designers playing the role of urban planners.
Jan 8th
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December 2011
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Dec 29th
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“It’s as if presidential campaigns and their pursuing tagcloud of media...”
– Geoff Manaugh, “Minor Landscapes and the Geography of American Political Campaigns.”
Dec 29th
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“Truth is what peers let you say.” It was false said at the APA. And so...”
– Dean Zimmerman (quoted in Alvin Goldman’s Knowledge in a Social World, p. 11)
Dec 28th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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“I am finally became Boss.”
– Subject of some spam sent to me today. (via thenewephemera) I am become boss, the destroyer of workers.
Dec 22nd
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“The Tea Party combines a programme tailor-made for the transnational corporate...”
– William I. Robinson and Mario Barrera, “Global capitalism and twenty-first century fascism: a US case study,” Race & Class, vol. 53, no. 4
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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ListenThe Kooks - All That She Wants
Dec 21st
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“…whether or not early human societies were really so misogynistic as to...”
– Justin E.H. Smith, “Working Arrangement,” Lapham’s Quarterly
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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ListenMaurice Ravel - String Quartet in F, Movement...
Dec 19th
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dropouthangoutspaceout asked: I'm not really taking them at face value because I honestly have no idea what's going on. All of this is pretty much outside the scope of what I do, and Leiter is a complete unknown to me! Canada's philosophy departments seem to keep to themselves so I'm just diving in through the channels I follow. I have never heard of this Buffet. hahah
Dec 19th
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ListenNigel Warburton interviews Brian Leiter on the...
Dec 19th
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Dec 17th
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Richard Feynman: Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
Jonathan Schaffer: It is likely that ornithological knowledge would be of great benefit to birds, were it possible for them to possess it.
Dec 17th
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Anonymous asked: What has philosophy ever done for the world? Computers? I don't know if i completely agree with that. I would agree that our intuition and logic certainly helped. But the knowledge of physics is what allowed us to *understand* how computers function.
Dec 16th
bbcity asked: BE MY BESTEST FRIEND
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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What has philosophy ever done for the world?
Cognitive Science (started by noted philosopher of mind Jerry Fodor) Computers (or, a machine that turns formal logic into a physical system) Oh, that.
Dec 16th
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