Monthly Archives: September 2009
The Lake by Yasunari Kawabata
Gimpei barely suppressed the urge to put his arm round the girl’s legs. But before he could do anything rash, the sudden realization that, every evening, she would walk here with her dog beneath the shade of the gingko tree
The Lake by Yasunari Kawabata
Gimpei barely suppressed the urge to put his arm round the girl’s legs. But before he could do anything rash, the sudden realization that, every evening, she would walk here with her dog beneath the shade of the gingko tree
I Love the System!
I love systems; corporations exploit systems and deform them to channel capital. I love habits; capital destroys habits so that implements must be replaced, which requires further raw materials to be drawn and further labor added, and fetishization and idealization
I Love the System!
I love systems; corporations exploit systems and deform them to channel capital. I love habits; capital destroys habits so that implements must be replaced, which requires further raw materials to be drawn and further labor added, and fetishization and idealization
Going Against the Current: Clarifying Some Points on Student Activism
We all too often create our own conception of a thing that is removed from the reality of that object and dismiss the whole thing based on the wrong views that we have constructed. An essay published online by John
Going Against the Current: Clarifying Some Points on Student Activism
We all too often create our own conception of a thing that is removed from the reality of that object and dismiss the whole thing based on the wrong views that we have constructed. An essay published online by John
Feels Like Insomnia
I left Miami last week after enjoying the university’s cheering contest, briefly passing by the town fiesta in Guam for dinner before flying over to Cebu early the next morning. It was a brief three-day stay with the family. I
Feels Like Insomnia
I left Miami last week after enjoying the university’s cheering contest, briefly passing by the town fiesta in Guam for dinner before flying over to Cebu early the next morning. It was a brief three-day stay with the family. I
Arranging Your Books
Something on “Bookshelf etiquette” from The Guardian Books Blog. Arranging them alphabetically is not the only way to go about it. ■
Arranging Your Books
Something on “Bookshelf etiquette” from The Guardian Books Blog. Arranging them alphabetically is not the only way to go about it. ■
Hasa: A Different Kind of Pageant?
The Philippines is a country obsessed with beauty contests. This mania goes not only for pageants for young women, but also for men, queers, children, teenagers, grandmothers, and even pregnant women, among others. But irregardless of the kind, the pageant
Hasa: A Different Kind of Pageant?
The Philippines is a country obsessed with beauty contests. This mania goes not only for pageants for young women, but also for men, queers, children, teenagers, grandmothers, and even pregnant women, among others. But irregardless of the kind, the pageant
Totalitarian Laughter
Let us take as our starting point Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose, precisely because there is something wrong with this book. This criticism does not apply only to its ideology, which might be called – on the model of
Totalitarian Laughter
Let us take as our starting point Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose, precisely because there is something wrong with this book. This criticism does not apply only to its ideology, which might be called – on the model of
Nobody, Nobody But You?
If the human reality is a social reality, society is human only as a set of Desires mutually desiring one another as Desires. Alexandre Kojeve, Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit In the chorus of the Wonder Girls’ 2008 hit
Nobody, Nobody But You?
If the human reality is a social reality, society is human only as a set of Desires mutually desiring one another as Desires. Alexandre Kojeve, Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit In the chorus of the Wonder Girls’ 2008 hit
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