January 2012
bonobo mix →
“The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re...”
– William Butler Yeats
“‘As children, we have all suspected it: perhaps we are all, moving strangely...”
– Georges Bataille, “The Cruel Practice of Art”
“ The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“The middle class non entity which usually finds its perfect expression on the...”
– Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
The Self →
I am found of how philosopher Daniel Dennett deals with this problem of perceived, but illusionary selves. He attributes these philosophical problems to the fact that often we think in all-or-nothing terms. Either the self exists or it doesn’t. Dennett thinks that this line of thought leads to the conceptual pitfalls and muddles that arise in thought experiments such as the teleportation...
“The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment...”
– Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
Jean Jaures →
“I gave up long ago saying everything I thought (somehow I even wonder whether...”
– J.M.G. Le Clezio
“I will have to say this much for the old ‘hard’ Left: we earned our claim to...”
– Christopher Hitchens
“I’m a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I’m so sick I think...”
– Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
December 2011
“Great minds struggle to cure diseases so people will live longer yet only the...”
“Yearning for a new orientation for an age that has lost it’s bearings”
Avaaz →
November 2011
The Revolution of Everyday Life: Chapter 5: The... →
Hakim Bey: Against Legalization →
We're 99% certain this is the most beautiful... →
Running on Emptiness: The Failure of Symbolic... →
THE ABOLITION OF WORK →
“The knower and the known are one”
– Eckhart
ELECTRONOMICON - American Magus / Harry Smith: A... →
ELECTRONOMICON - American Magus / Harry Smith: A... →
L.J. Washington: Don’t mock me my friend. It’s a condition of mental divergence. I find myself on the planet Ogo, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me in every way, nevertheless Ogo is actually a construct of my psyche. I am mentally divergent, in that I am escaping certain...
It’s 95 degrees and the humidity is 80%. People don’t understand that. People see a man with a shovel in his hand working on a job site and think he’s lazy because he’s just standing there. What they don’t see is the struggle going on inside your brain. The part of you that has lived in the wild for millions of years is saying it’s too exhausting, it’s too hot, why don’t you go lay in the shade...
Jobs usually had little interest in public self-analysis, but every so often he’d drop a clue to what made him tick. Once he recalled for me some of the long summers of his youth. I’m a big believer in boredom,” he told me. Boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity, he explained, and “out of curiosity comes everything.” The man who popularized personal computers and...
“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We...”
– Eckhart, Meister
“ “The platonist metaphor assimilates mathematical enquiry to the investigations...”
– Michael Dummett, British philosopher. He was, until 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, Truth and Other Enigmas, Harvard University Press, 1978, p.225. (via amiquote)
The Dalai Lama was asked what surprised him the most. He said : “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having...
Rhizome | This is Marshall McLuhan →
http://www.theyrule.net/ →
I still love this…
Cannot find the damn server →
October 2011
BBC - Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures - Lectures 1948... →
BBC - Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures - Lectures 1948... →
“I don’t like violence, I’m a business man. Blood is a big expense.”
– Vito Corleone
Seeing in the Dark § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM →
Cost of War to the United States | COSTOFWAR.COM →
“Internet a very large-scale spying machine” –... →
“The knower and the known are one”
– Meister Eckhart
“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have...”
– Thomas Moore
Anarcho-Syndicalism 101: home →
Young Montana? →
“… our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it,...”
– William james
Scratch.avi →
Macbeth, V.v.24-28
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
“When someone loves you, you feel that a different dimension has come into...”
– Osho