October 2011
2 posts
Today Liberty Plaza Had a Visit from Slavoj Zizek →
“…There is a danger. Don’t fall in love with yourselves. We have a nice time here. But remember: carnivals come cheap. What matters is the day after. When we will have to return to normal life. Will there be any changes then. I don’t want you to remember these days, you know, like - oh, we were young, it was beautiful. Remember that our basic message is: We are allowed to think...
June 2011
4 posts
An early memory from Oxford
An exchange between me and my soon-to-be logic tutor.
Porter: Ah, Dr. Blamey, this is the Princeton exchange student -- Mark.
Me: Hello, Dr. Blamey. It's nice to finally meet you!
[sticks out hand to shake]
Blamey: What are you doing?
Me: Um. Offering to shake your hand?
Blamey: Oh, I see. That barbaric American custom.
Me: ... Well, I'm pretty sure we got that one from you guys [the british].
Blamey: Ah, well it looks like you haven't moved on since then, hm.
Nausea - Sartre
“Experienced professionals? They have dragged out their life in stupor and semi-sleep, they have married hastily, out of impatience, they have made children at random. They have met other men in cafés, at weddings and funerals. Sometimes, caught in the tide, they have struggled against it without understanding what was happening to them. All that has happened around them has eluded them;...
April 2011
1 post
“The Bratz brand, which has remained number one in the UK market for 23...”
– Bratz spokesman, The Daily Telegraph
February 2011
3 posts
procrastinating →
Thesis related →
We’re hard-wired to turn our lives into stories - how will we cope with the dizzying digital fictions of the future, ask John Bickle and Sean Keating
January 2011
2 posts
“God works in mysterious ways. But at least he works. He’s never on welfare in...”
– Steven Colbert
December 2010
4 posts
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/world/asia/05wikileaks-china.html
“Mr. Li, after apparently searching for information online on himself and his children, was reported to have stepped up pressure on Google. He also took steps to punish Google commercially, according to the May 18 cable.”
November 2010
3 posts
Photographs of Philosophers - Zizek →
Also, see Steven Pykes essay in NYTimes:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/philosophers-through-the-lens/
October 2010
8 posts
“Every fall, Princeton raised her skirt for the corporate recruiters who came...”
– Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: mardi gratis →
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
mardi gratis
n. the thrill of helping random strangers, which is all the more satisfying because it carries no risk of reciprocation, which could trigger a friendship-quagmire of escalating favors that culminates in a debate over how to dislodge a couch from the stairwell of their new place without using an axe.
no homo nietzsche
… After examining each of his published works, Nietzsche concludes Ecce Homo with the section, “Why I Am a Destiny.” He claims that he is a destiny because he regards his anti-moral truths as having the annihilating power of intellectual dynamite; he expects them to topple the morality born of sickness which he perceives to have been reigning within Western culture for the last two thousand...
“In America, the first generation works their fingers to the bone. Second...”
– Jack Donaghy
“In Bigness, the distance between core and envelope increases to the point where...”
– Rem Koolhaas, Bigness
This is in reference to the metropolitan environment and skyscrapers (New York)
September 2010
6 posts
Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell...
“Well let me say that friendship is when we team together to achieve something...”
– - Bina48, artificial intelligence
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/06/24/science/1247468035233/interview-with-a-robot.html?ref=artificial_intelligence
The Wilderness Downtown: Arcade Fire's We Used to... →
cool new interactive music video. although i imagine that it evokes more emotion if you didn’t grow up in a city your entire life haha.
August 2010
10 posts
Does sleeping around make people happier? →
“One may view the individual’s everyday life in terms of the working away of a conversational apparatus that ongoingly maintains, modifies and reconstructs his subjective reality… [for example] ‘Well, it’s time for me to get to the station,’ and ‘Fine, darling, have a good day at the office’ implies an entire world within which these apparently simple propositions make sense… the exchange confirms...
The Phenomenology of Ugly →
“… It is no coincidence that one of our founding philosophers, Socrates, makes a big deal out of his own ugliness. It is the comic side of the great man. Socrates is (a) a thinker who asks profound and awkward questions (b) ugly. …”
The Future of Meat - Shmeat →
More bioethics
Stoned Ape Theory →
Some stuff I learned about at my internship
joejung:hello to friends in new york. miss you guys
“I think that New York is the new model for the new concentration camp where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves, and the inmates are the guards and they have this pride in this thing they built, they’ve built their own prison, and so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners and as a...
July 2010
8 posts
Storytelling in our mechanized, modernized world →
Moral Camouflage or Moral Monkeys? →
Some interesting thoughts on Darwinism and morality
Postmadern Man →
Two Friendships: A Response →
Response to the last thing I posted
Friendship in the Age of Economics →
“…To be a friend is to step into the stream of another’s life. It is, while not neglecting my own life, to take pleasure in another’s pleasure, and to share their pain as partly my own. The borders of my life, while not entirely erased, become less clear than they might be. Rather than the rhythm of pleasure followed by emptiness, or that of investment and then profit, friendships...
