Ministry of Truth

"Thinking … is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:10:22 +0000

“Thinking … is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas”

- Johann Wolfgang Goethe

"Addicted to the flux, addicted to the acceptance and subsequent rejection of powerful ideas."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:38:33 +0000

“Addicted to the flux, addicted to the acceptance and subsequent rejection of powerful ideas.”

Belief that the universe is governed is a form of faith… therefore science is not free of...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:35:00 +0000

Belief that the universe is governed is a form of faith… therefore science is not free of faith

"For western culture, the best, the end of the path, is reaching the totality of the discourse. For..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:32:22 +0000

“For western culture, the best, the end of the path, is reaching the totality of the discourse. For buddha, the end of the path is reaching silence.”

- Luce Irigaray

"Dangerous moments are coming. Dangerous moments are always also a chance to do something. But in..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:26:29 +0000

“Dangerous moments are coming. Dangerous moments are always also a chance to do something. But in such dangerous moments, you have to think, you have to try to understand. And today obviously all the predominant narratives — the old liberal-left welfare state narrative; the post-modern third-way left narrative; the neo-conservative narrative; and of course the old standard Marxist narrative — they don’t work. We don’t have a narrative. Where are we? Where are we going? What to do? You know, we have these stupid elementary questions: Is capitalism here to stay? Are there serious limits to capitalism? Can we imagine a popular mobilization outside democracy? How should we properly react to ecology? What does it mean, all the biogenetic stuff? How to deal with intellectual property today? Things are happening. We don’t have a proper approach. It’s not only that we don’t have the answers. We don’t even have the right question.”

- Slavoj Zizek

"Madness is confusion of levels of fact… . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels."

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:40:21 +0100

“Madness is confusion of levels of fact… . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.”

- William Burroughs

Photo

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:51:57 +0100

Photo

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Photo

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:49:36 +0100

"I make it my business to extract from Nature whatever nutriment she can furnish me, though at the..."

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:43:09 +0100

““I make it my business to extract from Nature whatever nutriment she can furnish me, though at the risk of endless iteration. I milk the sky and the earth.””

- – Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1817-1862

Two Forms of Existence (image via Olli Kekäläinen) There is a...

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:43:06 +0100

Two Forms of Existence (image via Olli Kekäläinen)

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.

—Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Burroughs and Bowie.

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:44:29 +0100

Burroughs and Bowie.

towerofsleep: Leif Podhajsky, from the Psychonaut series

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:35:07 +0100

towerofsleep:

Leif Podhajsky, from the Psychonaut series

ckck: Looking south along Fifth Avenue, New York City, year...

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:29:35 +0100

ckck:

Looking south along Fifth Avenue, New York City, year unknown (but after 1931, of course).

United States, Israel Rehearsing For Iranian Missile Attack

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:26:33 +0100

The lead up is this

negevrockcity:

Breaking story now up at True/Slant.

Yeah, I hate being the bearer of bad news.

"And then we cut ourselves off and don’t feel that we’re still the big bang, but you are...."

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:52:29 +0100

“And then we cut ourselves off and don’t feel that we’re still the big bang, but you are. Depends how you define yourself. You are actually—if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning—you’re not something that’s a result of the big bang. You’re not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. When I meet you I see not just what you define yourself as…I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. I know I’m that too, but we’ve learned to define ourselves as separate from it.”

- Alan Watts, The Nature Of Consciousness

"From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes. Most island universes are..."

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:51:07 +0100

“From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes. Most island universes are sufficiently like one another to permit of inferential understanding or even of mutual empathy or “feeling into.” Thus, remembering our own bereavements and humiliations, we can condole with others in analogous circumstances, can put ourselves (always, of course, in a slightly Pickwickian sense) in their places. But in certain cases communication between universes is incomplete or even nonexistent. The mind is its own place, and the Places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience.”

- Aldous Huxley

Also Amazing

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:18:25 +0100

Also Amazing

Amazing

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:17:43 +0100

Amazing

CouchSurfing

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:15:23 +0100

CouchSurfing