January 2010
88 posts
Infinite Jest
I had hoped to finish this this year. Close. Not hapening though. Is perhaps one of the greatest novels I’ve read. Nearly 1000 pages on culture and anxiety disorders and their relation.
December 2009
74 posts
“You can either be knee-deep in shit or drowning in it.”
– Miriam
“[W]e can […] come to know the human soul’s mode of existence, on the basis of...”
– Thomas Aquinas: Quaestiones disputatae de anima (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
Sore Afraid →
The only blog that I read every time it is updated.
“If we continue to steadfastly take each step with conviction, then we will...”
– H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (via tedr) (via redcloud)
300.02
Goal: One day leave the house without unplugging space heaters.
“I draw a radical distinction between the symbolic and the substantial. As a...”
– Cornel West (via langer)
“In short, understanding the policy process requires knowledge of the goals and...”
– The Need for Better Theories, Paul Sabatier
Your daily dose of positively-framed homophobia. →
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(via Chris).
“The answer made by justice is that empire is just because slavery is useful for...”
– Cicero, On the Commonwealth
“The definition of the alternatives is the supreme instrument of power.”
– Schattschneider