August 2011
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Stephen Clarke, France 24 video of the 12 July... →
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“In 2006 Florida passd a law that states, “The history of the United States...”
– James W. Loewen, “Lies My Teacher Told Me,” Revised and Updated, 2007, p. 313
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“Supposing truth is a woman - what then? Are there not grounds for the suspicion...”
– Nietzsche, Beyond Good & Evil (via yumnaolivia)
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Fuck Yeah Marxism-Leninism: Take Action for Rikers... →
I just called NY1, and they’ve assured me that they’re working on it, scheduling interviews, etc. The deputy mayor isn’t answering her phone.
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Mayor Bloomberg has announced that in the event of a hurricane, that he will not evacuate prisoners at Rikers’ Island, claiming instead to have a “contingency plan” in place. The experience of prisoners in New...
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“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but...”
– Michel Foucault (via the-altway)
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Jean-François Lyotard on Gilles Deleuze's Death
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“He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments — negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It’s your sadness, idiot, he’d say.”
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“The cogito is not a substantial entity but a pure structural function, an empty...”
– Slavoj Zizek, The Parallax View
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“‘Drones can’t see through walls right now’.”
– Elizabeth Bumiller, New York Times Pentagon Correspondent quoting a Pentagon Official about the current situation in Libya and Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfī’s whereabouts.
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“When I read, I accommodate: not only the crystalline humor of my eyes, but also...”
– Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, 1975, trans. Richard Howard (via proustitute)
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“Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.”
– Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity (via davidwpritchard)
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