March 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-27) →
Aesop Rock (26)
The Fiery Furnaces (26)
Dinosaur Jr. (24)
Angelo Badalamenti (18)
Beyoncé (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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leonine anti-heroine.: How to choose a therapist. →
leonineclaire:
So there’ll come a time in your life—or maybe it has already come—when you decide that “Hey I might need to speak to a therapist/counsellor/psychologist!” Maybe you’ve been feeling depressed, continuously perplexed, taken advantage of, burnt out, listless, anxious or a whole range of…
this is interesting and useful. my advice to most people would be that unless you have a...
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Streetplay.com →
Streetplay’s mission is to document the great city games that we know and love.
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things that jonathon keats has done//geekosystem
Sat and thought for 24 hours, and then sold his thoughts as art for a minute’s worth of his client’s annual income.
Tried to get “A=A” to be a statutory law in Berkeley, CA, requiring all entities found not being identical to themselves to be fined up to 1/10 of a cent.
Copyrighted his mind, as a neural network sculpture that he’d created by thinking; on the idea that if he licensed the...
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I've been wanting for a while to do a little movie...
quixotess:
Where I pick an actor and watch everything they’ve been in, preferably in order although some interesting stuff might happen if I watched it out of order or in reverse order. If they had been in a long TV series I would only watch the episodes they were in, not the whole thing.
It would create a really interesting counternarrative where that person is the “protagonist” of my...
ahipstory asked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein's_Poker
ta da
ta da
also I think I finally have a handle on the that/which distinction
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“There’s a kind of tragic fall Wittgenstein’s obsessed with all the way from the...”
– david foster wallace here
I was talking about this with velika and sean the other day, in the context of the perennial and profoundly irritating stoner question — “what if what you see as red is not the same colour as what I see?” my take, of course, is that it’s irrelevant...
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Soft Money//Rae Armantrout
They’re sexy because they’re needy, which degrades them.
They’re sexy because they don’t need you.
They’re sexy because they pretend not to need you,
but they’re lying, which degrades them.
They’re beneath you and it’s hot.
They’re across the border, rhymes with dancer—
they don’t need to understand.
They’re...
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“This is why Ke$ha’s songs always have an air of desperation, a sense that...”
– Woman with a vocoder › Voyou Desoeuvre (via ahipstory)
I’m so glad I live in a world where there’s marxist-feminist analyses of autotune.
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"Only the impotent are pure."
terror-incognita:
ourcatastrophe:
Recently I saw someone comment on a post about the Bechdel test, saying “yeah! Except I apply more tests – like, is it sexist, racist, queerphobic, cissexist, binarist, classist, ableist, ageist, fatphobic? If it is I don’t watch it. So I hardly ever see movies!” […]
I totally get not wanting to read or watch something that you know is just going to...
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"Centrelink has advised me that as i am... →
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Yet another example of the fullness of certain...
barthel:
…While it’s hard, as a writer, not to be concerned primarily about how you are not as successful as other people are, in the moments when that worry slips away, I personally tend to be sad about the current kind of writing that seems popular on the Internet here. I am sad that smart people who are very good writers seem to spend their time saying things we already know in...
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“There’s more to solidarity than being appropriately offended.”
– Terror Incognita
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Not all bias is epistemically bad (Antony 1993). …The procedural approach argues that epistemically bad biases can be kept in check through an appropriate social organization of inquiry. A social organization that holds people with different biases accountable to one another will be able to weed out bad biases, even if no individual on her own can be free of bias (Longino 1990). This view may...
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“The idea that death is what makes life meaningful, in addition to being a...”
– robert philen
overextended economic metaphors and the culture of capitalism are interests of mine.
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While Scheper-Hughes emphasizes that [organ] traffickers and procurers come from numerous nations and ethnicities, including Americans and Arabs, she is unflinchingly honest in speaking about the Israeli connection:
“Israel is at the top,” she states…In her Forum 13 lecture Scheper-Hughes discussed the two motivations of Israeli traffickers. One was greed, she said. The other was somewhat...
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bane of my existence
english visitor to Melbourne (after speaking to me for about an hour): wait, are you australian? me: …yes? english visitor: you don’t sound australian. you sound like you’re from oxford or somewhere. I used to get this a lot when I was a kid and it made me really self-conscious and also grumpy because I was raised to be quite anti-English. (the resentment of the imperial fringe,...
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leonineclaire:
ourcatastrophe:
Recently I saw someone comment on a post about the Bechdel test, saying “yeah! Except I apply more tests – like, is it sexist, racist, queerphobic, cissexist, binarist, classist, ableist, ageist, fatphobic? If it is I don’t watch it. So I hardly ever see movies!”
Seriously? This is a viable strategy of media consumption for people? I’ve seen similar...
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Recently I saw someone comment on a post about the Bechdel test, saying “yeah! Except I apply more tests – like, is it sexist, racist, queerphobic, cissexist, binarist, classist, ableist, ageist, fatphobic? If it is I don’t watch it. So I hardly ever see movies!”
Seriously? This is a viable strategy of media consumption for people? I’ve seen similar sentiments in a few places before and it...
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Philosophy is supposed to be difficult//The... →
…philosophy is as much a technical discipline as these other sciences are, and as little capable of being diluted down to words of one syllable. One of the reasons for this is that philosophy isn’t necessarily just a set of conclusions. To many of the most recent western thinkers, it is first and foremost a methodology, rather than an attempt to arrive at a fixed theory. The...
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My personal thoughts about Japan earthquake
teeerieblr:
I am a 24 year old Japanese living in Tokyo.
About the CNN anchor’s joke. Someone wrote the anchor was “giggly” while reading the news and did not say a word about Godzilla. So it seems that joke thing was half true, half wrong. (Thank you for the information.)
I noticed some people are saying “Japan deserves this for the things Japanese did at WW2 and Pearl Harbor”. I’m not angry...
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“I wanted to make these women on pyres, like these commemoratives for witches. I...”
– Art21 . Kiki Smith . Interview & Videos | PBS
(via ontrash)
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ontrash:
‘The Spirit of Juliet’ - Miho Hatori
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Terra nullius
caitlinate:
incommensurability:
The standard story is that the denial or suppression of native title or ownership right and the assertion of sovereignty through the British annexation of Australia was justified by a supposed legal doctrine - terra nullius. That story also holds that the doctrine was famously overthrown in the Mabo v Queensland [No 2] [1992] decision, under which the...
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Judith Butler in Who Owns Kafka?
In focusing on just how perfectly German his language is, the archive joins in a long and curious tradition of praise for Kafka’s ‘pure’ German. George Steiner lauded ‘the translucency of Kafka’s German, its stainless quiet’, remarking that his ‘vocabulary and syntax are those of utmost abstention from waste’. John Updike referred to ‘the stirring purity’ of Kafka’s prose. Hannah Arendt, as...
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“Ruhama Weiss, who teaches Talmud at Hebrew Union College, argues that the sages...”
– purim, women and violence at jewschool
via jew on this.
How To Say No: The “B” side to Self-Care →
leonineclaire:
“1. Always say “no” first. Do not allow “yes” to be your default answer. It is easier to go back later and say yes, than it is to go back later and say no.
2. Never agree to do something on the spot. Always take some time to think about it and consider whether or not it is going to be an imposition. If it is, say no.
3. Limit yourself on how many things you agree...
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“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been a staple of American popular...”
– fbi portrayal in media, wikipedia
know your pop culture history
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NO DISRESPECT: NO in plural to the "say no to...
leonineclaire:
NO DISRESPECT: NO in plural to the “say no to burqas” mural
We are calling on all people to create opposition and alternatives to the “say no to burqas” mural. The “say no to burqas” mural has been up in Newtown for more than 6 months now. Though there has been plenty of dissent, the mural remains. Far from ‘protecting oppressed women’, the mural works to target...
