February 2012
20 posts
“Art always has to do with cosmogony, but it exposes cosmogony for what it is:...”
– Jean-Luc Nancy, “Being Singular Plural,” 15
“If in 1992 we talk about the necessary means, as in “Revolution By Any...”
– Meditations on the Legacy of Malcolm X, Angela Davis
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/spy-tech-comp... →
“Once again, I am attuned to the mysteries of nature, the falling leaf, the...”
– Clark Moustakas, “Being-In, Being-For, Being-With,” p 173
Watch(via “All There Is”: Love Stories from the StoryCorps Oral History Project with Founder Dave Isay)
One hell of a Valentine. StoryCorps is an amazing, startling, and beautiful project.
Eggs... →
Incredible, edible, and narrative.
“From the Sufi tradition I came to see that the artisan was meant to transform...”
– Narer Ardelan
“And if you cannot work with love but only sit in distaste, it is better that you...”
– Khalil Gibran
January 2012
17 posts
Just how rich is Mitt Romney? Add up the wealth of... →
shortformblog:
Divide this number by 50 and you have the amount of money we make on the blog. Give or take a few million.
“SOME DAY I’LL SHOW THEM! [sob] SOME DAY THEY’LL BE SORRY—SORRY...”
– Grant Morrison in Super Gods - I love this book absurdly.
“We hadn’t reached a conclusion when the bell rang, but we’d touched on a wide...”
– Citizen Philosophers: Teaching Justice in Brazil by Carlos Fraenkel - http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.1/carlos_fraenkel_brazil_teaching_philosophy.php
“We’ve got to start taxing corporations. Right now, the average American is being...”
– Jack Blum on Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/24/as_romney_releases_tax_returns
“NYPD Screened Anti-Muslim Video Far More than Disclosed
Newly released...”
– Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/24/headlines#13
Oh how I want to see portrayals of Muslims as police in American cop dramas. That would be such an opportunity for writers and networks to take a quiet but clear political stance on this sort of thing.
“Facebook is trying to move users to its own messaging service, something that...”
– I love the idea of dropping email, but am hesitant about relying social media formats to communicate broadly. The notion of bigwigs dropping video chats is simultaneously forward thinking and somewhat big-brotherly. Unfortunately, if this is happening—and it sounds like it is—then it is...
Thanks Google, and the rest, for putting weight... →
“Will language have the same depth and richness in electronic form that it can...”
– Don DeLillo, “Best American Fax” from Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011
December 2011
38 posts
Your TODAY IN RAGNAROK UPDATE
areasofmyexpertise:
For 12/25/2011:
“Last. Christmas. Ever.”
Merry XMAS to all, and to all a good GLOBAL SUPERPOCALYPSE
That is all.
Christmas Eve at the Homestead
I find myself in front of the Christmas tree, wine at hand, and a resting tome of Cthulhu stories. I don’t hear sleigh bells, but I feel pretty excellent. My mom is in good shape—all things considered—and I feel… satisfied. May this day and this season bring many blessings, religious, spiritual, cosmic, felicitous, particular, familial, amicable, and otherwise. I am loved,...
The Future is a Virus (my Swedish Twitter... →
openthefuture.com
Not literally, of course. But if we think about the future as something that infects us, we gain a new perspective on our world. Human civilization has a weak immune system when it comes to futures. We can sometimes recognize when…
The Future is a Virus (my Swedish Twitter... →
openthefuture.com
Not literally, of course. But if we think about the future as something that infects us, we gain a new perspective on our world. Human civilization has a weak immune system when it comes to futures. We can sometimes recognize when…