December 2011
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Vernacchio explained that sex as baseball implies that it’s a game; that one...
– New York Times Magazine article, “Teaching Good Sex” about sex positive, non-abistence only sex education. (via quimichpatlan)
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Experience is no more a substitute for thinking than reading is. Pure empiricism...
– Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)
epidemikkk asked: I really respect how educated you are and what you find interesting.
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lecker schmecker: 6. The Differential Diagnosis of... →
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In the case of masculine hysteria, defiance likewise comes under the heading of phallic attribution. It is as if the subject engages in defiance only when called upon by the other’s desire. In this particular dialectic of desire, the hysterical man hurls and intolerable challenge at himself, one…
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"back when rape meant abduction. . . " →
“The Rape of the Sabine Women is an episode in the legendary history of Rome in which the first generation of Roman men acquired wives for themselves from the neighboring Sabine families. The English word “rape” is a conventional translation of Latin raptio, which in this context means“abduction” rather than its prevalent modern meaning of sexual violation. Recounted...
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This readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is...
– Slavoj Zizek (via taylords)
About You: Philosophical Discussion on the... →
KRONOS: How would you describe your ‘love-affair’ with the speculative realists movement?
RB: The ‘speculative realist movement’ exists only in the imaginations of a group of bloggers promoting an agenda for which I have no sympathy whatsoever: actor-network theory spiced with pan-psychist…
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and...
– Mark Twain (via cultureofresistance)
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Christmas is (still) Bad Faith →
“Bad faith (from French, mauvaise foi) is a philosophical concept used by existentialist philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir to describe the phenomenon where a human being under pressure from societal forces adopts false values and disowns their innate freedom to act authentically.” (wikipedia)