February 2011
15 posts
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January 2011
14 posts
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romantically apocalyptic →
I do not even have words to describe how fucking awesome this webcomic is. It combines dark, grandiose visuals and the goddamn apocalypse with the most random, hilarious shit.
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“Because I was so easily moved by people, I had learned to distance myself, just...”
– The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst
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theatres of cruelty →
“Medical drama shows us only the ecstasy of sickness: a place where the sedated mind is freed from the demands of the body, where the luxurious burden of personhood is entrusted to another. (A patient, after all, is the opposite of an agent.)”
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louis althusser: ideology and ideological state...
A quick summary of the 1970 essay, mostly stolen from last year’s engl217 — my prof wants us to read Cormac McCarthy’s The Road through Althusser and I have no idea why or how one could relate to the other.
?> Why do we work?
labour: reproduction of the conditions of production
- the productive forces
- the current relations of production (happy social relations)
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eyre asked: RITA ♥ you have returned to tumblr! somewhat! welcome back :)
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“The long poem of walking manipulates spatial organisations, no matter how...”
– Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City”
(it’s impossible to pull a short de Certeau quote, okay)
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“The ordinary practitioners of the city … they are walkers … whose...”
– Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City”
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i [joe beats remix], andrew bird
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Science fiction: the genre that dare not speak its... →
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women's studies is still with us →
AHAHAHAHA. I love when you don’t even have to comment and an article is so bad it satirises itself. this is fucking hilarious.
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the xenotext experiment →