February 2012
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Virginia Woolf's essay on cinema →
“PEOPLE say that the savage no longer exists in us, that we are at the fag-end of civilization, that everything has been said already, and that it is too late to be ambitious. But these philosophers have presumably forgotten the movies. They have never seen the savages of the twentieth century watching the pictures. They have never sat themselves in front of the screen and thought how for...
“I propose that (some of) the purposes of literature are to reveal what we know...”
– Katherine Hayles
“In the absence of a shared vision of the true, the good, and the beautiful won’t...”
– http://thefrailestthing.com/2011/01/27/inevitable-elitism/
“You can watch movies and listen to music for tens of thousands of hours without...”
– http://nplusonemag.com/revolt-of-the-elites
“Recently the immortal Eric Hobsbawm voiced a familiar thought about the...”
– http://nplusonemag.com/revolt-of-the-elites
“We do not lack communcation. On the contrary, we have too much of it. We lack...”
– Deleuze and Guattari, What is Philosophy? (via rhizombie)
“The question was then put as to whether there were on Mars or other planets in...”
– Habla Mnemosina:
“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (1873)
“The idea that science can, and should, be run according to fixed and universal...”
– Paul Feyerabend, Against Method (via hollovv)
M.I.A. Shouldn’t Have Apologized : The New Yorker →
The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve been tired out by before. M.I.A. was illustrating her line, acting out the attitude of the words: performing. Fine, it may not be legal to flip the bird on television, but that’s simply a remnant of the fifties we haven’t shaken. Unless somebody was handing out Xanax with the foam fingers, Lucas Oil Stadium was...
“What is this self inside us, this silent observer,
Severe and speechless...”
– T. S. Eliot - The Elder Statesman. (via acorda)
“To say “Hell is other people” does not mean “Heaven is for...”
– Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“Science manipulates things and gives up living in them.”
– Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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“It’s true. I’m not authentic. With everything that I feel, before actually...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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“The division between the personal and the class individual, the accidental...”
– The German Ideology, Karl Marx
“On the day of judgement, God will surely scold us in these terms:
“Since you...”
– from the script of Salo by Pier Paolo Pasolini (via whoreofbabalon)
culturalrot:
“Hence the symbol is the same in both cases: a homogeneous closed circle. And this is important. For we see that it is sufficient to deny that the Concept is a relation with something other than itself in order to set up the ideal of absolute—that is, circular— Knowledge. And indeed, if the Concept is related to another reality, an isolated concept can be established as true by...
“Speaking frightens me because, by never saying enough, I also say too much.”
– Derrida, “Force and Signification,” Writing and Difference (via goleh-yas)
“Ideology never says, ‘I am ideological.’”
– Louis Althusser (translated by Ben Brewster)
“Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one...”
– Baudelaire, Windows (via bbcity)
“This is a song for the genius child.
Sing it softly, for the song is wild....”
– Genius Child, Langston Hughes
Perhaps the real epistemological question is this—How do you know that you are on the right side of history? How can you discern whether you will be judged like the Indian independence movement or like the Russian revolution?
“We should rather think and believe that which is written is better and more true...”
– St. Augustine
“Only rarely in U.S. history do writers transform us to become a more caring or...”
– How Ayn Rand Seduced Young Men and Helped Make the U.S. into an Uncaring Nation (via bbcity)
Oh god, I think I’m going to vomit.
“As regards the human mind, I maintain that it, too, is a part of Nature; for I...”
– Baruch Spinoza, Letter 32 (via hollovv)
Habla Mnemosina: On Quotes →
speakmnemosyne:
The problem with quoting great phrases from novels is that it gives one the idea that the entire novel will sound like that one quote. And it’s impossible for a novel to maintain a steady level of eloquence, and when it does manage to maintain it, it becomes a little unbearable, or overwhelming. A…
“The real world is where you take pictures for... →
modernandmaterialthings:
“Documentary vision is kind of like the “camera eye” photographers develop when, after taking many photos, they begin to see the world as always a potential photo even when not holding the camera at all. The habit of the photographer involuntarily framing and composing the world has become a metaphor for those trained to document using social media. The explosion of...