May 2010
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May 31st
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May 28th
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“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for...”
– Charles Bukowski (via quotethequote) (via nosuchthingasmonsters) Holy shit, this FOREVER (via jonathan-cunningham)
May 28th
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May 26th
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“On this question I have absolutely nothing to say”
– Michel Foucault’s response to the endless nature-versus-nurture debate over the origins of homosexuality. via fuckyeahfemmes (via bonesarecoralmade) (via fuckyeahtheorists)
May 25th
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Finally a new post! "Men Who Get It", y'all! →
skirtonfire: dorianisms: I still screw up, probably more often than I realize. I am willing to bet that everyone reading this still screws up. Because it’s hard! It’s hard challenging the hegemonic narratives embedded in every fucking aspect of our society, the narratives that encourage us to do messed-up things and treat certain classes of other people as less than human. We all push back as...
May 25th
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May 25th
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“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”
May 25th
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May 22nd
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“the collectivity must be understood as the product of a development of will and...”
– antonio gramsci (via nosex) (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
May 21st
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If It’s Good for General Motors, Is It Good for... →
azspot: Common to all the cases listed below is the corporate imperative to maximize profits and the return on stockholder investment. This imperative is called “fiduciary responsibility” and it is required by law. Accordingly, a failure to meet this responsibility can trigger a stockholder’s law suit against a corporation and its executives. Private Prisons. Good for the corporations: more...
May 21st
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May 21st
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May 20th
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“If voting changed anything they’d make it illegal.”
– Emma Goldman (via praxismakesperfect)
May 20th
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“Encouraging anti-tax sentiment has long been a staple of business propaganda....”
– Noam Chomsky (via azspot)
May 20th
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Jacobin →
azspot: A Jacobin, in the context of the French Revolution, was a member of the Jacobin Club (1789–1794). The Jacobin Club was the most famous political club of the French Revolution. So called from the Dominican convent, where they originally met, in the Rue St. Jacques (Latin: Jacobus), Paris. At that time, the term was popularly applied to all supporters of revolutionary opinions. In...
May 19th
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“We may think of this period of systemic crisis as an arena of struggle for the...”
– Immanuel Wallerstein  (via newleft)
May 18th
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May 18th
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“People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. “Stephen”, they say, accusingly,...”
– Stephen Fry . :: fuckyeahstephenfry:drunkenboat :: . (via resmc) (via skirtonfire)
May 17th
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VERSIONS OF "IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE"
thesociologist: hakoto: cutesydaisies: (via consistently-sleeping, saywhatvia) Pessimist: If you love someone, set her free. If she ever comes back, she’s yours. If she doesn’t, as expected, she never was.  Optimist: If you love someone, set her free. Don’t worry, she will come back.  Suspicious: If you love someone, set her free. If she ever comes back, ask her why.  Impatient: If you love...
May 17th
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May 16th
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Google Admits to Storing Private Data →
“Nothing to see here” “But, my personal data…” “You mean our data”
May 15th
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The Vancouver Transit Adspace Re-appropriation... →
May 14th
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Canadian MPs keep expenses hidden, deny auditor... →
“Shouldn’t I know where my tax dollars go?” “No. Move along, citizen.”
May 14th
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May 13th
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“There can be no successful opposition without knowledge of what it is that is...”
– Gary Teeple
May 13th
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May 13th
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“We sanitize our history. We erase all kinds of social, cultural, and economic...”
– Roberto R. Calderon (via azspot) (via think4yourself) (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
May 12th
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“In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot...”
– G.K. Chesteron
May 11th
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WatchWatch
newleft: Contested Space is a BFA thesis project by Bruce Paul. The project is an urban digital projection which projects live CCTV camera footage onto the area which is under surveillance.
May 11th
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“The basic fact in all this is that living together is not standing at the other...”
– Anatole Anton
May 11th
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“Our blindness to the results of systemic violence is perhaps most clearly...”
– Slavoj Žižek, Violence. Six Sideways Reflections, London: Profile Books, 2008, p. 12. (via msodradek) (via ontologicalterrorist)
May 10th
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“In the hooded world of academia, scholars are holding on to unintelligibility as...”
– Madison Moore, “I Hate Academic Writing” (via) (via austinkleon)
May 10th
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Chomsky to take a much needed break →
(via skirtonfire)
May 10th
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“Moreover, there are sciences to which eternal youth is granted, and the...”
– Max Weber
May 7th
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Marxism meets campus social strata:
(Two kids in a library).
Guy 1: So I was in class and I heard someone refer to hipsters as the Doucheoisie.
Guy 2: So, what does that make fratboys? The Broletariat?
Guy 1: Well it does make sense if you think about it. We always see a struggle between the broletariat and the doucheoisie.
May 7th
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May 6th
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David Harvey on BBC HARDtalk - Are we seeing the... →
May 5th
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Speech Accent Archive →
May 4th
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“People who look for symbolic meanings fail to grasp the inherent poetry and...”
– Rene Magritte (via phoenix-eyes) (via myriadflesh) (via montycantsin) (via ontologicalterrorist)
May 4th
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via anditslove)
May 4th
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Hedgehog's dilemma →
readmorewikipedia: The hedgehog’s dilemma, or sometimes the porcupine dilemma, is an analogy about the challenges of human intimacy. It describes a situation in which a group of hedgehogs all seek to become close to one another in order to share their heat during cold weather. However, once accomplished, they cannot avoid hurting one another with their sharp quills. They must step away from one...
May 3rd
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If you can’t baffle them with bullshit, just include so many in-text citations as to make your piece incomprehensible to even the most astute readers. This will provide pleasant results: “Your text is very well-researched”.
May 3rd
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WatchWatch
well played, sir.
May 3rd
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May 3rd
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May 3rd
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“Re-examine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book....”
– Walt Whitman . :: quicklyslowly:batwithbutterflywings:dreamboatcourtney: :ladidaladida:leftunderbooks :: . (via resmc) (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
May 2nd
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May 2nd
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