February 2012
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The Art of Distraction-by Hanif Kureishi →
“From this point of view — that of drift and dream; of looking out for interest; of following this or that because it seems alive — Ritalin and other forms of enforcement and psychological policing are the contemporary equivalent of the old… practice of tying up children’s hands in bed, so they won’t touch their genitals. The parent stupefies the child for the parent’s good. There...
Helge Peters: Empiricism as rape phantasy →
helge:
In a passage adressed to his monarch, [Francis] Bacon uses bold sexual imagery to explain key features of the experimental method as the inquisition of nature:
“For you have but to follow and as it were hound nature in her wanderings, and you will be able when you like to lead and drive…
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“A difference capable of being understood outside the dominance or regime of the...”
– Elizabeth Grosz, A Thousand Tiny Sexes (via rhizombie
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cavernouscontemplation:
“Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments, 1882-1883.
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Gun Distributor, Komen Foundation Team Up To Sell... →
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Statement from Susan G. Komen Board of Directors...
Great news. Nancy G. Brinker’s press release states, “We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair.” But it’s startling how Brinker explicitly positions the organization in a nowhere zone outside of politics at the very moment its implication within the...
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January 2012
106 posts
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Twins
repetition and difference
fytransfat:
One of the sets of identical twins in National Geographic “Twins Photo Gallery” are now Brother and Sister.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/01/twins/cobb-schoeller-photography#/06-juan-liana-670.jpg
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