February 2012
31 posts
Edle Feierabendbetäubung II.
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The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.
— Robert J Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
“Stripping naked is the decisive action. Nakedness offers a contrast to...”
– Georges Bataille, Eroticism: Death & Sexuality
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Indeed, the speed of light (about 300,000 km/s - over a billion k.p.h.) is so great that our intuition is of little use. All the observations about speed that you have ever made, all of the experience upon which your common sense is based, are in a tiny area of physical reality that we could label “extremely low speed” compared with light.
— from UNSW’s excellent...
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lookuplookup:
On the couch wearing the rattiest of my worn-out knee-highs, the last vestiges of a youthful stint as an awful, awful stepdancer.
[photo-reply with gratuitously large, x-year-old trousers, which i still keep, gradually gathering paint spatters, their numerous rips now more drafty than aesthetically pleasing.]
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nsomn:
Guys, I found the Ghana Post Office Stamp...
whenyrlivinginafascistdream:
“I actually dreamed this morning that Obama’s secret drone program was really a minimalist sound installation, a kind of soft Phill Niblock piece coming from concealed loudspeakers.”
— Kyle Gann
Was it not a clandestine network of subversive throat singers in central Asia?
“Ich sage dir: Steh auf und geh! Es ist dir kein Knochen gebrochen.”
– Ingeborg Bachmann, Das dreißigste Jahr (via faoiseamh)
Using the internet in front of a mirror,
excessively critical and stressful thoughts are gently quashed by the sight of my own funny little face.
