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Originally posted on hovercraftdoggy: ‘al fared palace’ by Mohammed Assiri /// Nabataean city, Saudi Arabia Rock hewn Qasr al-Farid tomb at Nabataean city. On an arid plain in northern Saudi Arabia, the forlorn figure of Qasr al-Farid, “the Lonely Castle,”… Continue reading
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Nate Silver Clarifies Controversial Gay Identity Remarks In New Reddit AMA Interview
Besides the point that this is how his friends describe him, the notion that ethnicity=morality does not compute for me. Can you unpack that?Read the Article at HuffingtonPost Continue reading
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Originally posted on Duct Tape and Bubblegum: Photo Courtesy of VLCC India As a continuing reader of Duct Tape & Bubblegum, you’ll become an expert on Meatbagism, but for now, we’d like to reintroduce the subject as it is the… Continue reading
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Originally posted on The Funambulist: Panopticon plan by Jeremy Bentham (1791) In the last ‘episode’, I was evoking the will of Michel Foucault to be considered as a cartographer. In a text written for the journal Critique (dec 1975), Gilles… Continue reading
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Originally posted on The Funambulist: The Trial by Orson Welles (adapted from Franz Kafka’s novel) 1962 The structuralist descriptions established by Michel Foucault about discipline are thought to be well known, especially by architects for who the book has been… Continue reading
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I fucking hate capitalism. (Amid conversation as we were walking back from a paper sale at PSU, the comrade I was walking with commented that as we passed them a couple guys had stopped to thoroughly check me out. “It’s… Continue reading
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Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: We think of our mind and body as separate entities that are often at war with each other. Thich Nhat Hanh teaches that the body is a treasure. This audio clip is an excerpt from… Continue reading
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Emily Raboteau’s Searching for Zion, reviewed. – Slate Magazine
In her memoir Searching for Zion, Emily Raboteau travels to several continents and countries—including Israel, Jamaica, and Ghana—seeking her own personal Promised Land. While Raboteau, whose mother is white and father is black, may not have been looking to trace… Continue reading
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Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts: “In Spinoza the whole theory of expression supports univocity; and its whole import is to free univocal Being from a state of indifference or neutrality, to make it the… Continue reading
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Stupidity – Idiocy – Ignorance
A short taxonomy: Stupidity: Having no native ability for thought at all. Idiocy: Being able in one thing but incapable in all else. Ignorance: Not knowing where to start due to lack of information. All suffer from ignorance at every… Continue reading
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Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: When I teach, I often tell students that contrary to what they may have been told, there are stupid questions. However, it is still important to ask those questions because it would be more stupid… Continue reading
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Originally posted on Ray Ferrer – Emotion on Canvas: Here are some of my latest pieces, done for a large installation in NY at Lagond Music School. Enjoy.. Continue reading
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An Old Entry Full of Questions
Originally posted on Randall Dean Scott: Last night, instead of going to the bar, I sat with a bottle of wine while attempting to put some words on the page. For a short time, they were coming out fine. Then,… Continue reading
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Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: Thus the six syllables, om mani padme hum, mean that in dependence on the practice of a path which is an indivisible union of method and wisdom, you can transform your impure body, speech, and… Continue reading
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