May 2013
4 posts
6 tags
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,...”
–
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via cabbycan)
I’m sure F. Scott would have loved this movie. I haven’t read anything about it (I like to go in fresh), but at least the idea of it. Maybe what it takes to be modern is a) the automobile and b) the movie. Until we get past these...
9 tags
5 tags
5 tags
April 2013
15 posts
4 tags
“Slash is clearly a word to watch. Slash I do mean word, not punctuation mark....”
– Slash - The Chronicle of Higher Education
I don’t know if I count as young here, but I use this all the time. Seems to obviously be an outgrowth of the use of the slash in academic discourses, spilling downward. Because where else is the slash regularized in everyday language?
3 tags
6 tags
“Apparently we have some sort of fixed idea of speed.”
– Korte’s law and neon signs | io9
7 tags
Kevin Curtis' Ripoff Report →
Similar to the other piece of stereotaxis I published a few days ago, another scrap of speech:
About 4 hour into the job after I laid down the first coat of sealer, I became very thirsty. I was unable to exit the morgue due to floor finish not drying as fast as I had anticipated with the humidity level, so I opened the dor to a small refrigerator located to the right of the autopsy table. I...
7 tags
3 tags
“…the “slow language” of stone, as opposed to the fast one of words, the...”
– Marcia Desanctis in The Millions
5 tags
Saginaw man asks for FBI wiretap on NBA player,... →
I collect scraps of speech like this, though I used to do it at my other tumblr, stereotaxis …
“I leave 25% for family apartments, houses, small mansions in the middle of the land in country with mountain ranges and cultured lands, home grown fruits, vegetables, fish (shrimps), meat, cigarettes, weed, cocaine, beer, liquor and wine, bullet and laser proof cars, trucks, buses, limousines,...
7 tags
“The Food Channel fetishization of cooking has made it look intimidating …”
– This post by Mark Bittman (more on his review of Michael Pollan’s new book on cooking below) finally brought in to focus something I couldn’t quite put my finger on, namely, why I dislike all those shows like Chopped, etc, on television.
Now, I love cooking shows, shows with recipes...
3 tags
8 tags
“Left alone with his judge, he fills the stage with his own sense of apocalypse,...”
– From a review of Sobata Komachi/Yoroboshi, London 2001 (The Observer).
I saw Tatsuya Fujiwara as the titular blind young man in this, my introduction to Mishima and to Nō. For years, I had failed to figure out which play I had seen; as the internet got better, it got easier. That I have looked...
3 tags
4 tags
APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
3 tags
6 tags
4 tags
March 2013
13 posts
3 tags
Werner Herzog Hypnotizes Chickens | LA Review of... →
6 tags
Why Alien Invasion is the Perfect Metaphor for... →
5 tags
“Without a shadow of a doubt, she is on the side of the normalisation of torture.”
– Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood’s gift to American power | Slavoj Žižek
5 tags
Literary History, Seen Through Big Data’s Lens |... →
19th-century literary style and influence through the lens of data aggregation …
3 tags
Lost Lectures by French Philosopher Foucault... →
5 tags
6 tags
Literature's business model explained, with... →
What is particularly crucial to understand is that books were not dragged kicking and screaming into each new area of capitalism. Books not only are part and parcel of consumer capitalism, they virtually began it. They are part of the fuel that drives it.
…
In the history of shop design, it is bookstores, strangely enough, that were the precursors of supermarkets. They, alone of all...
5 tags
“By the early 2000s, the research in biology and physics was starting to...”
– The Power of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer, Understand the Brain, and Predict the Future | Wired Science
3 tags
What Ockham really said | Boing Boing →
“Nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.”
An interesting post with a good point: “But we should also remember that nature is not parsimonious at all.”
However, I’m not sure if anyone cares what Ockham really said. Ockham’s razor is generally formally understood...
5 tags
A video game where Foucault chases you ... →
Simple, yet endearing …
(the best part is the quote on the death screen)
1 tag
1 tag
3 tags
Rodent Mind Meld: Scientists Wire Two Rats' Brains... →
February 2013
3 posts
3 tags
4 tags
Nerval's Lobster: Is walking a crustacean any more... →
Let’s not forget, however, that Nerval was a fervent scholar of the occult, steeped in classical myth, Egyptian magic, medieval fables, Teutonic tales of Lorelei, the Gnostic wisdom of the Druses of Lebanon, alchemy, the Kabbalah, the Tarot, the secret teachings of the Illuminati, “the strange legends and bizarre superstitions” of the Valois countryside outside Paris, where he...
5 tags
“You should never believe an author if he tells you why he has certain recurring...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro (via theparisreview)
January 2013
2 posts
2 tags
"Sayle Gentle Pinnace"
Sayle gentle Pinnace Zepherus doth not faile
with prosperous gales, Saile Gentle Pinnace Sayle
Proud Neptune Stoops, and freely Condescends
For’s foremer Roughness, now to make amends;
Thetis with her green Mantle sweetly Glides
With smileing Dimples Singing by our Sides
Sayle Gentle Pinnace Zepherus does not faile
With Prosperous gales, Sayle Gentle Pinnace Sayle.
—John Saffin, ca. 1658
8 tags
Tabou : la famille homoparentale de la fille de... →
Un autre événement important est contenu dans ce livre, dans la préface d’Elisabeth Roudinesco : pour la première fois, une historienne éminente de la psychanalyse reconnaît la relation homosexuelle qui a existé entre Anna Freud et Dorothy Burlingham.
And, to accent that fact, Sigmund Freud accepted their companionship as a form of family.
December 2012
3 posts
8 tags
“Obama’s campaign began the election year confident it knew the name of every one...”
– The Definitive Story of How President Obama Mined Voter Data to Win A Second Term | MIT Technology Review
So much for the secret ballot. We now shed so much data in the wake of our everyday digital lives that the most intimate aspects of our political lives—much less our intimate...
4 tags
November 2012
2 posts
5 tags
Walt Whitman, "Election Day, November, 1884" →
Or good or ill humanity—welcoming the darker odds, the dross:
—Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart pants, life glows
This poem is one of the first things I ever posted here, about four years ago today. It’s hard to agree with Whitman, that the heart of the day is not in the chosen, but in the choosing.
It is hard to agree, though like all hard things that...
4 tags
October 2012
2 posts
3 tags
“B.B. How have you raised the problem of choice and nonchoice?
M.F. I will say...”
– Michel Foucault, “The Order of Things” (Interview)
5 tags
“I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
September 2012
3 posts
6 tags
HaïkuLeaks / Cable is poetry →
In his pride, he lashed out at perceived opponents. No Comparison?
07CAIRO2871.txt
Haikus from wikileaks, culled via algorithm …
August 2012
2 posts
The Shakespearean insult generator: →
“You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe!”
Tmesis →
millionsmillions:
A quick look into the science of zoning out.
One person’s plowing on mindlessly is another person’s heart of great literature; after all, “it is the very rhythm of what is read and what is not read that creates the pleasure of the great narratives” (#)
July 2012
13 posts
4 tags
