February 2012
53 posts
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“Once, waiting to assess the mental progress of the Canaques I had taught for...”
– A story retold by Catholic missionary Maurice Leenhardt, reprinted in Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber on page 243.
sad but true.
stufftolookatwhileyourehigh:
awkward when you realise you’re only happy when you’re thinking about theory and politics and german philosophers and how stupid the rest of the populace are, then realising that you’re probably going to become as stupid as them one day as no one will pay you to sit in a room and think all day.
You can solve this by reading Nietzsche every day in small doses
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“There is the profound truth of the blood-feud. No one can ever really forgive...”
– David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, pg 159
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The Chinese Rivers and Mountains Tradition →
This is an amazon review I wrote for David Hinton’s collection of medieval Chinese “Rivers and Mountains” poetry.
“Spring flowing pure clarity in emerald streams,
moonlight’s radiant white bathes Cold Mountain.
Leave wisdom dark: spirit’s enlightened of itself.
Empty your gaze and this world’s beyond silence.” - poem 81 from Chinese poet Cold...
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A review for "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" →
This is an Amazon review I just wrote for “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” that I just finished.
From the book itself: “What is a debt , anyways? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence. If freedom (real freedom) is the ability to make friends, then it is also, necessarily, the ability to make real promises. What sorts of...
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“Up in our country we are human! And since we are human we help each other. We...”
– An Eskimo hunter, as reported by the Danish writer Peter Freuchen, and reprinted in Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber on pg 79
“How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that...”
– noam chomsky. (via pretentioushipstercats)
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Skype
WOOPS forgot to set my skype so that anyone could message me. Again, my screen name’s augustus-carmichael and I like talking to strange internet people I don’t know so please do
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“But there remains also the truth that every end in history necessarily contains...”
– Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, pg 616
America In Decline? →
joninamerica:
An interesting read from one of my favourite political writers. Also find part two of this article from the link. Well worth the read.
He misspelled “amerikkka”
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“Ideologies are never interested in the miracle of being. They are historical,...”
– Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
“It’s more about getting rid of the poor…The right want the poor to get rich, the...”
–
Fox News’ host Greg Gutfeld, asserting that “contraception is really scheme of the left to eliminate poor people” on The Five.
To this, co-host Andrea Tantaros replied, “yeah, population control,” while Dana Perino chimed in with “it’s not a bad point.”
Video via Think Progress
(via...
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“Venerable Sir,” the King greeted him, “since you have not counted a...”
– An exchange between the Confucian philosopher Mencius and King Hui, from “Debt: The First 5,000 years” by David Graeber, pg 242.
Reblog if it's okay to befriend you, ask...
irrelevantinsomniac:
Honestly, like nobody ever talks to me and I’d love it if people did.
Riblarged, will talk.
“Let the people suppose that knowledge means knowing things entirely; the...”
– Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, “On the Prejudices of Philosophers, No. 16”, in, Basic Writings of Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufmann (Modern Library Edition, 2000) 213. (via chipclayton)
“Students today are over $1 trillion in debt. That’s more than credit card debt....”
– Noam Chomsky
(via azspot)
rebloggin diz
homosexualexpress asked: I REPEAT, SIR: Why are you so interesting?
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homosexualexpress asked: Why are you so interesting? |:
Reblog if you want a "why are you so..." in your...
Don't tell me to calm my tits, my tits are calm,...
feministgeek:
Fucking this
woa now calm ur spleen there yonug lady
“The “they” is there alongside everywhere, but in such a manner that it has...”
– Martin Heidegger: Being and Time (via mindfulpleasures)
lisola:
I wanna watch a movie
which one though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7sUcDk7RGI
“The Bicycle Thief.” It’s a really good classic Italian movie, and it isn’t that long.
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“9/9, out drinking on Dragon Mountain,
I’m an exile among yellow blossoms...”
– “9/9, out drinking on Dragon Mountain” by Li Po, translated by David Hinton
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If you ever wondered what it sounds like when a...
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“Facing wine, I missed night coming on
and falling blossoms filling my robes.
...”
– “Spur of the Moment” by Li Po, trans. by David Hinton
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“Since the dawn of the century, this man has gone through hell and died several...”
– Eduardo Galeano, Century of the Wind, translated by Cedric Belfrage
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“Any serious social science or theory of social change must be founded on some...”
– Noam Chomsky, The Chomsky-Foucault Debates
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“In the villages and cities south of the Rio Grande, Jesus Christ marches to the...”
– Eduardo Galeano, Century of the Wind, translated by Cedric Belfrage
Growing up with Iranian Communist parents who took...
dad: so then the little black fish wanted to help all his friends to fight against the evil hungry pelican who had terrorized all the little fishes in the sea. he decided to trick the pelican...one last time. so when the pelican came to eat some of the little fishes, he took a sea-shell dagger and went with them.
me: oh no!! so what ended up happening?
dad: the well-being of the proletari- er, fishes was important to the little black fish, so he distracted the pelican by flopping around in its stomach, to tickle him, and when the pelican opened its beak, all the fishes swam out. the fishes watched the pelican writhe and cry out and they knew the little black fish had stabbed him; they cheered because the evil that had oppressed them all had finally been put to death. the little black fish saved the day, his bravery and intellect were used to benefit the masses rather than watch them be eaten every day by the evil pelican. okay, good night, gilly.
me: wait! so then what happened to the little black fish?
dad:
me:
dad: he died.
me:
dad: good night.
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“If you like, I will be a little bit Nietzschean about this; in other words, it...”
– -Michel Foucault, The Chomsky-Foucault Debates
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“Victorious capitalism, in any case, ever since it came to rest on a mechanical...”
– Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, translated by Stephen Kalberg
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“In his illness he had dreamed that the whole world was doomed to fall victim to...”
– -Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
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“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of...”
– Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
??
emilpie:
yo how do you label a box for shipping? is there a specific way because i’ve never sent a package before. like is there any particular way you have to put the addresses. shrug shrug shruuuug.
What service are you using? Ups? Us postal? FedEx? They should have a forum for printing out + paying for a mailing. If not, a US post office, a kinkos (for FedEx) or a ups store can take...
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“A few light taps upon that pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to...”
– James Joyce, Dubliners, “The Dead”
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“Poverty is no vice, that is the truth. I know that drunkenness is also no...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
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“If god acted in accordance with the prayers of men, all men would rather quickly...”
– Epicurus, translated by Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson
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“Seated on a rocker, on the columned porch of a decaying mansion, William...”
– Eduardo Galeano, Century of the Wind, translated by Cedric Belfrage
Did you know Scaruffi reviewed Deathconsciousness... →
Yeah a 7/10 for Scaruffi is like a billion out of 10 by anyone else’s standards
rustillin2it:
He gave it a 7/10, which is good for his scale and means “buy it eventually.”
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“Every great poet creates his poetry out of one single poetic statement only. ...”
– Martin Heidegger, On the Way to Language, “Language in the Poem,” translated by Peter D. Hertz
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“The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it...”
– -Eduardo Galeano, Century of the Wind, translated by Cedric Belfrage
Title
Sooooo loyal followers, what should this blog be titled:
“Nolite te Basardes Carborundorum,” which is from The Handmaid’s Tale and means “Never let the bastards grind you down,”
or
“i am tumblor”
I like both, and my friend keeps begging me to change it back to “i am tumblor.” I can’t make up my mind!
“All along, capitalists have sought to control labour by putting individual...”
– David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism (via quotemarx)
