June 2012
130 posts
“So to sum up, one candidate is portrayed, accurately, as being extremely rich,...”
– Conor Friedersdorf, on the lost moral perspective of the 2012 election. (via theatlantic)
“Kids play T-ball, then baseball; they play games and have practice every week...”
– Meira Levinson talking about her new book No Citizen Left Behind. (via bostonreview)
Wow. Just, wow. Quote of the week.
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May 2012
165 posts
“From all these sophisms we shall be perfectly safe so long as we reflect that...”
– C.S Peirce, How to Make Our Ideas Clear (via yourharbour)
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Judith Butler on the Growing Protests and the... →
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“Each time I open my mouth, I am promising something. When I speak to you, I am...”
– Jacques Derrida, ‘The Villanova Roundtable,’ October 2, 1994. (via movementsandmoments)
“Most of us have given up the idea that popular music is not an art form. There’s...”
– Michael Robbins on his pop references (via hookedonsemiotics)
“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the...”
– Walter Benjamin (via nminusone)
“He’d been traveling for four months, visiting three different continents...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot, 297
“What was interesting about being the needy one was how much in love you felt. It...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot, 250
“He led them on incredible escapades. But at some point things began to turn....”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot, 246
“What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?”
– Slavoj Zizek (via sociopoliticaldribble)
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