May 2012
4 posts
“Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon...”
– Macbeth, v.6 (permalink)
April 2012
21 posts
Things That Quicken The Heart: ‘The concrete... →
aporianonymous:
‘The concrete assemblages of school, workshops, army, etc., integrate qualified substances (children, workers, soldiers) and finalised functions (education, etc.) and this carries on right up to the State, at least in the form of a universal Marketplace. And ultimately this realisation and…
Things That Quicken The Heart: ‘The conclusion we... →
aporianonymous:
‘The conclusion we can draw is that each historical formation sees and reveals all it can within the conditions laid down for visibility, just as it says all it can within the conditions relating to statements. Nothing is every secret, even though nothing is immediately visible or directly…
Things That Quicken The Heart: ‘Power-relations... →
aporianonymous:
‘Power-relations are the differential relations which determine particular features (affects). The actualisation which stabilises and stratifies them is an integration: an operation which consists of tracing ‘a line of general force,’ linking aligning and homogenising particular features, placing…
Watchelhippiemoonbear:
Stanford prison experiment
timeimmemorial:
It is no longer thought that determines the object, whether through representation or intuition, but rather the object that seizes thought and forces it to think it, or better, according to it. As we have seen, this objective determination takes the form of a unilateral duality whereby the object thinks through the subject.
— Ray Brassier, Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and...
“Tragically, the well-off and the poor are often united in capitalist culture by...”
– Bell Hooks (via moreofamore)
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
– Joseph Campbell (via surrogateself)
March 2012
24 posts
“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via yrie)
“He wasn’t even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man. Whereas...”
– Albert Camus, The Stranger (via mutualaddiction)
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find...”
– Frederick Douglass (via ungovernablesf)
“Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the...”
– Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism (via iwanttheairwaves)
PET PET: The Bad Infinity of Communization →
intenseheatdeathandhappiness:
“The project of the dissolution of art into life — expressed variously in surrealism, the situationists, Dadaism, constructivism, productivism, futurism, conceptual and performance art — has drawn life into art’s orbit but also bound art closely to the potential of transformation of general social…
“Somewhere in this process you will come face-to-face with the sudden and...”
– Bhante Gunaratana (via anti-teachings)
“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via nathanielstuart)
“Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one...”
– Nikola Tesla (via misskayvee)
Time Immemorial.: The first step was to explain... →
timeimmemorial:
The first step was to explain the universal nature of psychological conflict and that psychological conflict and anxiety were not signs of mental weakness. Next, I explained how intrapsychic conflicts originate, that anxiety is a symptom of unresolved psychological conflict, and how conflict and…
February 2012
42 posts
