Monthly Archives: April 2010

bench

Ideology is in the Bench

Ideology…is not just a matter of what I think about a situation; it is somehow inscribed in that situation itself. It is no good my reminding myself that I am opposed to racism as I sit down on a park

bench

Ideology is in the Bench

Ideology…is not just a matter of what I think about a situation; it is somehow inscribed in that situation itself. It is no good my reminding myself that I am opposed to racism as I sit down on a park

1967-liu-deng-counter-revolutionary-line

Left!? What Left!?

“No, what gets me is that later they claim they’re on the left, that they’re anarchists. Anarchists my ass, they’re a bunch of Stirnerian faggots. Runts who walk around reading Nietzsche at age forty. Disillusioned my ass. What the hell

1967-liu-deng-counter-revolutionary-line

Left!? What Left!?

“No, what gets me is that later they claim they’re on the left, that they’re anarchists. Anarchists my ass, they’re a bunch of Stirnerian faggots. Runts who walk around reading Nietzsche at age forty. Disillusioned my ass. What the hell

A scene from the Great October 1917 Russian Revolution.

A Very Brief and Vulgar Reaction to Orwell’s Animal Farm

Rereading George Orwell’s Animal Farm last month made me realize how effective the text works as an attack of the Stalinist regime of the former Soviet Union. In the standard reading of the novel, it is construed not only as

A scene from the Great October 1917 Russian Revolution.

A Very Brief and Vulgar Reaction to Orwell’s Animal Farm

Rereading George Orwell’s Animal Farm last month made me realize how effective the text works as an attack of the Stalinist regime of the former Soviet Union. In the standard reading of the novel, it is construed not only as

Memory as Mysterious Lady

Memory is a mysterious lady. We do not choose our memories. They live their own life. They come and go. Sometimes they disappear for good. Other memories stick to us like lichen to a stone. They’re bits of life that

Memory as Mysterious Lady

Memory is a mysterious lady. We do not choose our memories. They live their own life. They come and go. Sometimes they disappear for good. Other memories stick to us like lichen to a stone. They’re bits of life that

blindness

Blindness and Seeing

What if everybody goes blind all of a sudden? What would happen? Portuguese Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago follows the repercussions of such a speculative scenario in his 1995 novel, Blindness. The novel starts with a government in panic rounding

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blindness

Blindness and Seeing

What if everybody goes blind all of a sudden? What would happen? Portuguese Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago follows the repercussions of such a speculative scenario in his 1995 novel, Blindness. The novel starts with a government in panic rounding

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