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Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:54:38 -0400

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS

"after ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed..."

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:20:06 -0400

“after ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated neros, genghis khans, and hitlers. this, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.”

- bertrand russell, unpopuar essays, ch.1, philosophy & politics (1950) (via nosex)

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"[The radical version of positivism] is an attempt to consolidate science as a self‑sufficient..."

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:33:56 -0400

“[The radical version of positivism] is an attempt to consolidate science as a self‑sufficient activity, which exhausts all the possible ways of appropriating the world intellectually. In this radical positivist view, the realities of the world – which can, of course, be interpreted by natural science, but which are in addition an object of man’s “existential curiosity,” a source of fear or disquiet, an occasion for commitment or rejection – if they are to be encompassed by reflection and expressed in words, can be reduced to their empirical properties. Suffering, death, ideological conflict, social clashes, antithetical values of any kind – all are declared out of bounds, matters we can only be silent about, in obedience to the principle of verifiability. Positivism so understood is an act of escape from commitments, an escape masked as a definition of knowledge, invalidating all such matters as mere figments of the imagination stemming from intellectual laziness. Positivism in this sense is the escapist’s design for living, a life voluntarily cut off from participation in anything that cannot be correctly formulated. The language it imposes exempts us from the duty of speaking up in life’s most important conflicts, encases us in a kind of armor of indifference to the ineffabilia mundi, the indescribable qualitative data of experience.”

- Leszek Kołakowski (1927-2009): The Alienation of Reason: A History of Positivist Thought (translated by Norbert Guterman) (via fuckyeahphilosophy)

"I want to strip you naked and see your inner self, the one you keep hidden because you think it’s..."

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:29:17 -0400

“I want to strip you naked and see your inner self, the one you keep hidden because you think it’s not beautiful. I want to show you secret parts of myself. And I will transgress the rules to have you, because my desire is too strong to permit anything else.”

- Filthy Gorgeous Things | Force | S&M 101 (via lepetitmort) (via sequence-non)

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Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:58:28 -0400

"I am physical object sitting in a physical world. Some of the forces of this physical world impinge..."

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:38:27 -0400

“I am physical object sitting in a physical world. Some of the forces of this physical world impinge on my surface. Light rays strike my retinas; molecules bombard my eardrums and fingertips. I strike back, emanating concentric airwaves. These waves take the form of a torrent of discourse about tables, people, molecules, light rays, retinas, prime numbers, infinite classes, joy and sorrow, good and evil.”

- W. V. O. Quine: ‘The Scope and Language of Science’, in id.: Ways of Paradox (via fuckyeahphilosophy)

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Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:07:52 -0400

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Listen! The Potential of Shared Hallucinations (1997)

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:50:47 -0400

We need a breakthrough here!

And questions can’t lead us to a breakthrough unless we’re willing to break something.

Before we can learn, before we can grow, we have to be prepared to listen.

What does it mean, to listen?

The word is commonly understood to mean “attentive hearing.”

It has its etymological origin in the archaic verb, list.

“List!” they used to say. “Ssh! List! The wild boar is outside!”

But the verb “list” also means to tilt something to one side.

When a sea vessel leans to starboard or port, it is said to be listing.

So how did the word “list” turn into the verb “listen?”

Because when we try to hear something, we sometimes cock our heads in the direction of the sound.

So to listen means more than to hear attentively.

The word also implies a change of inclination.

A new slant.

To listen is to put ourselves into a receptive attitude.

A position to be re-aligned.

To truly listen is to admit the possibility of upset.

"If we regard the sum of the cognition of pure speculative reason as an edifice, the idea of which,..."

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:42:20 -0400

“If we regard the sum of the cognition of pure speculative reason as an edifice, the idea of which, at least, exists in the human mind, it may be said that we have in the Transcendental Doctrine of Elements examined the materials and determined to what edifice these belong, and what its height and stability. We have found, indeed, that, although we had purposed to build for ourselves a tower which should reach to Heaven, the supply of materials sufficed merely for a habitation, which was spacious enough for all terrestrial purposes, and high enough to enable us to survey the level plain of experience, but that the bold undertaking designed necessarily failed for want of materials […].”

- Immanuel Kant: The Critique of Pure Reason (translated by J. M. D. Meiklejohn) (via fuckyeahphilosophy)

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Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:36:30 -0400

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"History is a strong myth, perhaps, along with the unconscious, the last great myth. It is a myth..."

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:09:53 -0400

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History is a strong myth, perhaps, along with the unconscious, the last great myth. It is a myth that at once subtended the possibility of an »objective« enchainment of events and causes and the possibility of a narrative enchainment of discourse. The age of history, if one can call it that, is also the age of the novel. It is this fabulous character, the mythical energy of an event or of a narrative, that today seems to be increasingly lost. Behind a performative and demonstrative logic: the obsession with historical fidelity, with a perfect rendering […], this negative and implacable fidelity to the materiality of the past, to a particular scene of the past or of the present, to the restitution of an absolute simulacrum of the past or the present, which was substituted for all other value — we are complicitous in this, and this is irreversible. Because cinema itself contributed to the disappearance of history, and to the advent of the archive. Photography and cinema contributed in large part to the secularization of history, to fixing it in its visible »objective« form at the expense of the myths that once traversed it.

Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to liquidating. It only resurrects hosts, and it itself is lost therein.

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- Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation (translated by Sheila Faria Glaser) (via fuckyeahphilosophy)

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Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:49:34 -0400

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Saw this movie with my mom in 11th grade. She recormended it.

Truth: A Medical History

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:48:31 -0400

fuckyeahphilosophy:

Coherence theories of truth

Coherence-systematic theories of truth

Criteriologic coherence theories of truth

Idealistic coherence theories of truth

Logico-empirical coherence theories of truth

Correspondence theories of truth

Identity theories of truth

Logico-empirical image theories of truth

Materialistic/reflective correspondence theories of truth

Ontologic-metaphysical correspondence theories of truth

Intersubjective theories of truth

Consensus theories of truth

Constructivist theories of truth

Dialogic theories of truth

Pragmatic theories of truth

Liguistic analysis theories of truth

Deflationary theories of truth

Formal-semantic theories of truth

Formal-semantic conditional theories of truth

Formal-semantic verificationist theories of truth

Fundamental-semantic theories of truth

Ordinary language theories of truth

Performative theories of truth

Redundancy theories of truth

Pluralist theories of truth

Semantic theories of truth

Revision theories of truth

… so, how are we feeling today?

"Let’s go back to the example of the quest for designer children. To appreciate children as gifts is..."

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:51:23 -0400

“Let’s go back to the example of the quest for designer children. To appreciate children as gifts is to accept them as they come, rather than to see children as objects of our design, or products of our will, or instruments of our ambition. It’s an interesting thing about parental love, if you think about it: parental love is not contingent on the talents and traits the child happens to have. It’s different from other human relations. We choose our friends, we choose our spouses at least partly on the basis of qualities that we find attractive. But we don’t choose our children, their qualities are unpredictable. […] As a result parenthood, more than any other human relationship, teaches us something […], it’s something that […] William May calls “An openness to the unbidden”. This idea of being open to the unbidden describes a quality of character and heart that restrains the impulse to mastery and control. It prompts a sense of life as gift. The deepest objection to genetic engineering for enhancement and designer children lies not so much in the perfection that it seeks, as in the human disposition it expresses and promotes. [….] And even if this disposition, the desire to control, doesn’t make parents tyrants to their children – it disfigures the relation between parent and child and deprives the parent of the humility and of the enlarged human sympathies that an openness to the unbidden can cultivate.”

- Michael Sandel: The Case Against Perfection (via fuckyeahphilosophy)

"It is a place that is now the official hipster neighborhood of the United States of America…I never..."

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:52:06 -0400

“It is a place that is now the official hipster neighborhood of the United States of America…I never thought that could exist here…I couldn’t believe it. It is so left wing, how do I even describe it…If you could see what this place looks like…Just think of the most left-wing hippie, lunatic, nutcase; get that in your head and multiply it by thousands. It is extremely scary…Tattoos and people who are high on drugs all day and they are wearing weird clothes, like something you can’t imagine, like a Hollywood picture, but here it was in the real world. Someone I was with said it’s like all the misfits in this country went to this neighborhood. There’s graffiti everywhere cuz they think graffiti is art…They are extreme leftists. I’ve never seen so many sick weirdos gathered in one place. They’re all doing drugs all day. They have their hair [dyed] and tattoos so they can’t have a job so they’re all living on public assistance…They love Obama and the leftists and hate police power. They’re carefree people. If I lived there a day, I tell you I would be in jail for murder…They don’t believe in toilet paper there because it hurts the environment…I think even some left-of-center Democrats would be grossed out.”

- Jay Mundy’s Williamsburg visit Via Brownstoner (via ronisolomondds)

Holy fucking shit, this man is onto something.

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Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:20:28 -0400

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