April 2011
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“…not all that long ago, it seemed to me obvious that dystopian speculative...”
– don’t need a weatherman//ads without products
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Confessions of an art judge: I tossed a coin to... →
terror-incognita:
Bell used his own criteria to select 29 finalists from 633 entries. More than 20 of the artworks he selected contained animals. Asked why, he said: ”I like animals. I was tempted to put in all animals. I was going to make that the criteria but I had to choose some of my friends.”
fuck yeah Richard Bell
omg omg omg ”Don’t you like animals?” omg omg omg
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“A great deal of research demonstrates that venting is ineffective at decreasing...”
– Giving in to Feel Good: The Place of Emotion Regulation in the Context of General Self- Control Author(s): Dianne M. Tice and Ellen Bratslavsky Source: Psychological Inquiry, Vol. 11, No. 3 (2000), pp. 149-159 — the article goes on to quote some studies that basically prove that most of the...
Ozone hole has dried Australia, scientists find →
asunburntcountry:
BBC UK
The Antarctic ozone hole is about one-third to blame for Australia’s recent series of droughts, scientists say.
via buffleheadcabin
“It’s hard to translate it exactly, but the gist is that Mewtwo is right now...”
– Meowth, actor commentary, Pokemon: The First Movie Bonus Features DVD, 1998 (via misattributions)
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“A year earlier, Kirsten “Kiki” Ostrenga was just another tween...”
– from this rolling stone article on kiki kannibal/kirsten ostrenga. (link via sadydoyle.) man! this is really full on. I was vaguely aware of kiki kannibal’s existence back when she was huge on myspace but I had no. idea. how much bullshit she was going through and how deeply online...
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Why grad school (esp. at Princeton) makes you dumb →
jimccasey:
This is how: Take a very bright, young graduate student. If someone that fresh has spent the first two years of the Ph.D. program in politics taking six classes in quantitative and formal methods as well as compulsory seminar classes on the “canon,” she has little time for substantive classes that give her a theoretical background on the questions she will ultimately answer in her...
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i dig kodak disposable cameras for throwback...
no lomo.
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Anonymous asked: We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter 'SINGULARITY: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills the ice-cube tray, who unloads the clean dishwasher, who occasionally pees in the shower, whose eyelid twitches on first dates; that only we take casualness terribly seriously; that only we fashion supplication into courtesy; that only we hear the whiny...
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materialworld answered your question: When You Cancel Your Magazine Subscription on Your Kindle, Your Back Issues Disappear Too
‘buy = rent’ in cultural capital monopoly services is a different argument from the ‘nostalgia + tactile = superior cultural experience’ one
yes, absolutely, but I think the nostalgia/tactile thing is the most common objection to e-books and is worth specifically...
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“Polyamorist writing and activism contribute to the expansion of the languages...”
– Poly/logue: A Critical Introduction to Polyamory -Jin Haritaworn, Chin-ju Lin, and Christian Klesse. Sexualities, December 2006; vol. 9, 5: pp. 515-529.
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team “post-polyamory”
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When You Cancel Your Magazine Subscription on Your... →
bibliofeminista:
“Apparently, if you’re a Kindle owner with a magazine subscription, and you decide to stop subscribing, the back issues you previously downloaded are also lost—for good.
That’s right—there is no way to retrieve what you already paid for and supposedly, already own. To top it all off, there is also no existing way to transfer old issues of your subscription to a new device...
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“…the influx of commodities (in particular, used clothing) had destroyed local...”
– “buying a better witch doctor: witch-hunting, neoliberalism, and the development imagination in the taiti hills, kenya”. james h. smith. american ethnologist, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 141-158. well, it makes a hell of a lot more sense than rational choice theory
Life begins at 40: Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse... →
faith-ampersand-begorrah:
rueleinster replied: Tell me your secrets! I want to do this too!
- CARDIO: Plan ahead. Pace yourself. Build an outline in stages, starting with the bare bones and then fleshing it out. We sometimes think all-nighters result in papers that cohere and…
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“Consider the central problem involved in examining eating disorders from an...”
– The Haunted Flesh: Corporeal Feminism and the Politics of (Dis)Embodiment, Abigail Bray and Claire Colebrook, Signs, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Autumn, 1998), pp. 35-67. pdf.
tl;dr: it’s hard to get past the (often deeply harmful) use of the body as metaphor when your entire framework for critique is...
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Doctor Who – a threat to the political and social... →
Time travel television, said China’s government administrator of radio and television, is ‘frivolous’ in its approach to history – a verbal warning that was seen as tantamount to an official ban.
…Science fiction is a subversive genre because it invites us to imagine completely different ways of life, past and future utopias and dystopias.
…No state that wants to keep governing...
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did you hear about that new branch of philosophy...
batcave:
they’re calling it ghost-modernism
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Australia lowers international student visa... →
“Prospective students and their families, agents and education providers should be aware that these changes will lower the minimum evidentiary requirements needed for the grant of a student visa for the selected countries and education sectors,” a DIAC spokesman said in the statement. “However, the reductions to assessment levels do not change the likelihood of...
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Ten Days in a Madhouse//Nellie Bly//1887 →
ON the 22d of September I was asked by the World if I could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients therein and the methods of management, etc. Did I think I had the courage to go through such an ordeal as the mission would demand? Could I assume the characteristics of...
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trans women & fantasies of radical abjection:...
mewmewfoucault:
so this has been on my mind for a long while, and the current controversy over the admins at FYCTC choosing to not encourage/allow female-assigned-at-birth people who ID as trans women to submit photos, as well as recent and upcoming interactions i’m having with the local radical faeries, have prompted me to want to write through it a bit
i’ve been thinking a lot recently about...
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The Different Types of Comments People... →
The Person Who Spends Time Informing Others That They Feel The Article Wasted Their Time. Despite the fact that the internet does not obligate anyone to read any single item of content hosted thereupon, these individuals enjoy suffering. They will read articles by authors they hate on topics they hate and then post comments about how much they hated it or how they feel more stupid for having...
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I have a real big problem with shit constantly being divided into “subversive” and “indefensible”. (this is a thing that comes up a lot with femme presentation a lot, people arguing about how and when it’s subversive, but I think it happens with most politicised life choices.)
you don’t always have to defend your choices on the basis of how radical they are. ...
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“I have a good friend in the East. A good singer, and a good folksinger, a...”
– in a spring:
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“Q: So when I don’t know how a person identifies, I should always ask?
A: The...”
– Sarah Dopp, from her Frequently Asked Questions about Gender and Sexuality in Doppland. I think this goes beyond non-normative gender presentations, but also in regards to anything queer or just non-normative (like hairstyles) or general uncomfortable/unusual situations. (via bespangled)
I’m...
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I Also Dated Zarathustra//Sharon Wahl →
I had looked nearly everywhere else and decided that if necessary, and it seemed to be necessary, I would look here, too. I would sit in a tight short dress with my legs placed at an advantageous angle to the camera, crossed at the knees with one high heel dangling from my toes. It’s a favorite pose and successful. The men I was quizzing couldn’t see it but the cameraman was...
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on punk pants: duration, devotion, and... →
As a material artifact my denim told a story of a practice of duration, and an aesthetic of devotion — an accumulation of time and purposeful neglect as evidence of my punk pledge. (I no doubt wore these the night my then-best friend and I both swore we would be punk forever, sitting on the floor of his bedroom listening to records out of milk crates.) Though rumors and anecdotes about how...
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“The whole time I’ve grown up in Australia I’ve only heard white people complain...”
– Aamer Rahman from Fear of a Brown Planet, interviewed at Peril: Asian-Australian arts and culture magazine
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SILENCE DEATH LONELINESS BAD MATTRESSES SUFFERING...
loneberry:
When I feel sick or broken or blissed-out or connected or destroyed or intense in any sort of way
I want to hold the feeling in my body as long as possible.
I don’t want to talk to anyone
I don’t want to turn my attention away from it
I want to sit inside it
To hold onto it
Because to forget seems like the worst kind of betrayal.
I could not sleep I could not sleep I could never...
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The Power of Lonely//Boston Globe →
Insofar as there is a consensus among solitude researchers, it’s that in order to get anything positive out of spending time alone, solitude should be a choice: People must feel like they’ve actively decided to take time apart from people, rather than being forced into it against their will.
…it can have some counterintuitive effects: Adam Waytz in the Harvard psychology department, one of...
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ahipstory:
“I read this passage from Butler’s essay “Violence, Mourning, Politics” a few days ago, and was undone by it:
… Perhaps one mourns when one accepts that by the loss one undergoes one will be changed, possibly for ever…I do not think, for instance, that one can invoke the Protestant ethic when it comes to loss. One cannot say, “Oh, I’ll go through loss this way, and that will be the...
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Robots to get their own internet →
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“In a recent study conducted by MacDorman, the uncanny effect seemed to be tied...”
– from “the truth about the uncanny valley” at popular mechanics
hello! this is super interesting. for reference — in 1970, roboticist masahiro mori posited that realistic robots are creepy because they are not quite real enough to pass for human, not quite fake enough to be...
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“In my view, the withdrawal to such a safe moralising position is the highest...”
– Slavoj Žižek//London Review of Books
I don’t particularly like Žižek, to be honest, but this thing from 2008 is worth a read.
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footscray (and environs) food blog →
via my mum.
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