February 2011
Things I've Been Thinking About: Education and the...
We prize knowledge, books, words, learning because we prize money, class, and power. We aim to learn so that we might validate our experiences, with the understanding that without said learning, our experiences are not validated. Or, that the experiences without said learnedness are somehow less valid. It’s all pervasive, this concept of knowledge as validation. And it has real, political...
Will Oldham Interviews R. Kelly →
lifeaquatic:
revoltintheranks:
douglasmartini:
And it’s only slightly less bizarre than you’d imagine.
And I have never been happier.
These two love each other. WORLD’S GREATEST BROMANCE
My buddy Brian is Will Oldham’s barrista.
January 2011
How in the world is John Boehner such a...
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WatchEgyptian Riot footage, Sky News.
Jason Chaffetz doesn't believe in non-forcible... →
This fucking “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion” fucking law is giving me such fucking heartburn, these stupid, mealymouthed motherfuckers are gonna fucking get it this next election. I’M GOIN FUCKING SOROS ON THESE MOTHERFUCKERS
“We don’t expect anything from Obama, whom we regard as a great hypocrite. But we...”
– Egyptian blogger and activist Hossam el-Hamalawy talks to U.C. Irvine history professor Mark LeVine at Al Jazeera. (“We Don’t Expect Any Help From America, Just To Leave Us Alone.” | The Awl) (via jasencomstock)
This is interesting and I want to have it here.
(via alexbaca)
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Soup: Biden: Mubarak Should Not Step Down →
Vice President Biden, issuing the Obama administration’s most definitive statement to date on the turmoil in Egypt, said President Mubarak should not step down and downplayed the protests spreading across the Mideast as generally unconnected.
He described the unrest as an expression of “middle-class folks” looking for “a little more access and a little more opportunity.”
Though the...
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On Literary Objectivity and What a Filthy Lie It...
When we set out to make an “analysis” of a work, it is inevitable that we will approach that work with an a priori assumption formed in mind. If we know the author in a context then we will be inclined to see their work through a lens of their other work, or the work of their “period” or “movement”, or their peers, or their autobiographical details. If, however,...
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“Everything is transition and it is hard to answer the man who regards history as...”
– Heinrich Wolfflin, Principles of Art History: The Problem of Development of Style in Later Art, trans. M.D. Hottinger. New York: Dover, 1950. Print.
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“Surprise! I got you a gift at sodastreamusa.com; you will receive it shortly....”
– Automatically generated email from the seltzer people on behalf of the fiancee. We are in the winter of austerity but the co-hab keeps spoiling me. In return, I vow to carbonate all her beverages and bring effervescence to every part of her life. It’s cute now, but she might growl when I go for the...
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Here is a list of things I should have done by the...
1. Finished David Perkins’ Is Literary History Possible?
2. Read two chapters/essays out of Renee Bridenthal’s Becoming Visible
3. Read all of Descartes’ Meditations On First Philosophy
4. Read at least one essay by John Ruskin
As I did none of that and my first class is at 9 AM tomorrow, I’ll just post this picture of me and this horse I found.
Official Stance on Everything
“Hand me a Nembutal will ya son?”
“Hey are you alright?”
“The fuck do you care?”
The DIY Abortion Two new studies on how American... →
bibliofeminista:
Since we hear about do-it-yourself abortions only when they end badly, it’s hard to know how common they are. But thanks to two recent studies, we now know a little more about the usually silent group of American women who try to end their own pregnancies. Both studies found that a small fraction of the women surveyed had attempted to abort without the help of traditional...
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mekah:
[The Whitlams - I Make Hamburgers]
Auto...
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Journal publisher Elsevier cuts free access for... →
qed:
Suddenly the boundaries were down. A doctor in downtown Nairobi might have a clinic with crumbling walls and precious little equipment, but he had access to the same cutting-edge knowledge as any medic in New York or London.
Until now. Of late, it seems that commerce has trumped altruism. HINARI, the Health InterNetwork for Access to Research Initiative that the WHO set up, appears...
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Now that you're old enough to read for yourselves,...
The WBC is coming Jan. 23rd and literally making a picketing tour of the city. They’ll protest the Kol Ami congregation, St. Marks Episcopalian, the LDS Temple, two Sundance locations (specifically the one screening Michael Moore’s Red State), and finally West High School. (!!!! A HIGH SCHOOL!!)
Here is an excerpt from their website about why they’re coming our way!
WBC will...
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