June 2012
To London, Ontario for a bachelor party and another late night.
Learnt today that local travelers are quite a lot more rude than people from out of town. Like parking spaces are owed to them for being hicks, or something.
But that’s behind, done day.
It’s July tomorrow, how about that. I feel like I’ve lived three lives these past three months.
“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of...”
– Salvador Plascencia (via anditslove)
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not...”
– The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Karl Marx 1852.
(via diviani)
Sounds like the words spoken by Stephen Dedalus: “history is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
“When we say of things that *they are finite*, we understand thereby that they...”
– G. W. F. Hegel, Science of Logic, ‘Determinate Being: Finitude’, trans A. V. Miller (London: Humanity Books, 1969) p.129 (via fuckyeahdialectics)
Slavoj Žižek on "300"
beatyourwings:
“[I]t is the story of a small and poor country (Greece) invaded by the army of a much larger state (Persia), at that point much more developed, and with advanced military technology — are the Persian elephants, giants and large fire arrows not the ancient version of high-tech weaponry? When the last surviving group of Spartans and their king, Leonidas, are killed by the thousands...
Do what I love, not what has jobs (necessarily)? Cultural theorist. Forever and ever. Stuart Hall has a job. Will Kymlicka has a job, he’s even Canadian (more political philosophy than cultural theorist, but where does one end and the other beginning? what isn’t political philosophy now?). I’ve never really been one for practicality, why stop now?
For now, I stand around in a...
“….such a declaration helps only the intellectual anxious to prove that...”
– Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak (via gangsofcats-withthumbs)
“[…] Gramsci, the Italian Marxist, believed in pessimism of the intellect,...”
– Stuart Hall in an interview with The Guardian
“Unity and questions of unity and of mobilization are now always questions of...”
– Stuart Hall- Discussion on Popular Culture: Theory and Criticisms in Black Popular Culture
Can we all agree that, no matter what position we...
getmetoanunnery:
SINCE CANADA HAS UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE.
I’m dying.
It’s pretty rad, too.
Summer lunch break,
Under the tree by the harbour, beginning of Captial, chili cheese fries and fresh peach juice from small sandy burger joint. Arrived today to find out I’m in a higher paying position today, plus I was given five extra hours. I might fall dead by the end of the week. 37 they said today and I feel it in the way my legs don’t want to move very fast. Thoughts in the...
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I forgot how good jazz sounds in the evening, after days split between losing sleep, standing in parking lots (alone with the breeze, the waves, the birds) and making up the time here at home, jumping between baths and naps and drinking. I haven’t read much. I haven’t written much, either. Tomorrow it’s been a week on, and it’s strange, as a co-worker noted, how quickly it...
“Marx argues that not only is political emancipation insufficient to bring about...”
– Karl Marx, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2.1 (via sigma-x)
tonight,
three bottles of wine on the table, dinner with my uncle, conversations about the wedding (two weeks now before I get to stand up in my sister’s wedding, I need to write a speech). Two malbecs and a South African. Summertime dinner: fried mushrooms, potatoes, souvlaki pork, green beans, sunshine on neck, fruit flies around wine.
It hasn’t felt like summer, these past three...
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The History Teacher
eun-jeezy:
Trying to protect his students’ innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters.
And the Stone Age became the Gravel Age, named after the long driveways of the time.
The Spanish Inquisition was nothing more than an outbreak of questions such as “How far is it from here to Madrid?” “What do you...
