• Overthinking It
Analysis/deconstruction of popcultural objects. Recommended posts: The Real (Symbolic, and Imaginary) Ghostbusters (which analyzes the film in terms of Lacan’s notions of the Real), Bon Jovi: Livin’ on a Prayer and Music Theory, and I Will Always Have Been Back: Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Schwarzenegger.
• The Vigilant Citizen
The problem with conspiracy [...]
Because, you know, fuck actually reading Das Capital, Phenomenology of Spirit or Ecce Homo in the internet age. Some of these Twitter feeds aren’t in English.
Karl Marx: @charles_h_marx (deutsch)
Sigmund Freud: @sfreud
Friedrich Nietzsche: @nietzsche_f (deutsch) and @nietzsche_bot
Slavoj Žižek: @zizekspeaks
G. F. Hegel: @GeorgHegel
Carl Jung: @thecarljung
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The scene evokes an abbreviated pastoral—but the birds are shackled to their perch, which is in turn connected to the hand crank.
Somewhere between nature and the mechanical, between the comic and the tragic, his birds “twitter” with a music that expresses how frail and vulnerable existence is, especially in the post-WWI modern world.
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“Birdhouse In Your [...]
Here’s an excellent article on the politics of the people behind Facebook (among other things), from the Guardian. Definitely worth reading.
It’s hard enough trying to limit the amount of high-fructose corn syrup coming into my body… do I really have to limit my Facebook time as well?
Take a walk with me, if you will, down Tinfoil Hat Lane. Um, bring a tinfoil hat.
Facebook went online in 2004, founded by Mark Zuckerberg (then a student at [...]
Internet speculation in 1969. “Fingertip shopping will be one of the many homemaker’s conveniences.” Let’s play “Where’s Waldo” with the misogyny!
More Internet speculation from 1969, this time in French (with a couple of subtitles). I don’t speak the universal language of surrender myself, o this is for those of you who do.
An amazing [...]
this was originally posted as a “note” on the facebooks
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25 (minus 15) random things about me
This will hopefully be the best one of these you read all day, because it only has 10 items on it. Plus, it is AWESOME. If I tagged you, you don’t have to do it… I mostly tagged [...]
George W. Bush keeps saying that history will judge him favorably. After reading this article about Stalin’s rehabilitation in Russia, I’m not convinced he’s totally wrong.