| Features: Savage Love:November 11, 2009 |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|12:00 am] |
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http://www.avclub.com/articles/november-11-2009,35160/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds&utm_source=type_savage-love I am a 30-year-old woman, married for five years to a man eight years my senior. Lately I have become more aware that I am turned on by the idea of bondage, specifically men locked up in chastity devices. I am ashamed of myself, because it seems, well, pretty perverse and disturbed.
My husband is a pretty dominant alpha-male type. I am a relatively dominant personality, but I’m a bit submissive around him in order to keep the peace, as he will not tolerate any disagreement in certain situations. So I am wondering: Is this new fetish springing from ... |
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| Oh hay |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|07:48 pm] |
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Saw this on Twitter: normal November rainfall for Seattle 1.58", so far this month we've had 2.90. It's only the 10th! |
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| Michel Montecrossa's 'Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2007' - Part 4 |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|09:14 pm] |
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http://videos.antville.org/stories/1945555/ here's part 4 of Michel Montecrossa's 'Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2007'
further information on 'Michel Montecrossa sings Bob Dylan':
www.Michel-BobDylan.com
The Songs, Part Four: 'Teen Smell'*, 'Rollin' and Tumblin'', 'Firebelt'*, 'When The Deal Goes Down', 'City Girl'*, 'Sweetheart Like You', 'Both Sides Of Love'*, 'Someday Baby', 'Superbody'*, 'Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight', 'Stop Dreamin' – Start Lovin''*, 'Workingman's Blues #2', 'Electropunk's Upgraded Levels Of Confusion'*, 'Union Sundown'
Songs with * are by Michel Montecrossa
Michel Montecrossa - all information:
www.MichelMontecrossa.com
Michel Montecrossa on iTunes:
www.Michel-iTunes.com
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| FYI |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|02:32 pm] |
I am taking part in a 6 part reenactment of the "first" homogenized milk processing plant in Western North America this evening.
I will playing the part of a Colloid Mill.
I don’t sing but I do read a little poetry.
[UPDATE]
i don't have a flyer for the event BUT agree that having one would be a "shot in the arm"
[UPDATE]
thanks for those of you who attended this evening. here is the flyer we had made up. I am the Colloid Mill on the right NOT the one on the left.
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| Nihilism Before Nietzsche (1994) |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|02:04 pm] |
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| | I see what he means about Ockham, for starters | ] |
In the twentieth century, we often think of Nietzsche, nihilism, and the death of God as inextricably connected. But, in this pathbreaking work, Michael Gillespie argues that Nietzsche, in fact, misunderstood nihilism, and that his misunderstanding has misled nearly all succeeding thought about the subject. Reconstructing nihilism's intellectual and spiritual origins before it was given its determinitive definition by Nietzsche, Gillespie focuses on the crucial turning points in the development of nihilism, from Ockham and the nominalist revolution to Descartes, Fichte, the German Romantics, the Russian nihilists and Nietzsche himself. His analysis shows that nihilism is not the result of the death of God, as Nietzsche believed; but the consequence of a new idea of God as a God of will who overturns all eternal standards of truth and justice. To understand nihilism, one has to understand how this notion of God came to inform a new notion of man and nature, one that puts will in place of reason, and freedom in place of necessity and order. |
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| yet more Zizek |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|01:06 pm] |
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What remains in suspense, what dangles in thought? We can only think, in language, because language is and yet is not our voice. |
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| new book on Parmenides |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|12:11 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Rush : Mystic Rhythms | ] |
Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy
John Palmer develops and defends a modal interpretation of Parmenides, according to which he was the first philosopher to distinguish in a rigorous manner the fundamental modalities of necessary being, necessary non-being or impossibility, and non-necessary or contingent being. This book accordingly reconsiders his place in the historical development of Presocratic philosophy in light of this new interpretation. Careful treatment of Parmenides' specification of the ways of inquiry that define his metaphysical and epistemological outlook paves the way for detailed analyses of his arguments demonstrating the temporal and spatial attributes of what is and cannot not be. Since the existence of this necessary being does not preclude the existence of other entities that are but need not be, Parmenides' cosmology can straightforwardly be taken as his account of the origin and operation of the world's mutable entities. Later chapters reassess the major Presocratics' relation to Parmenides in light of the modal interpretation, focusing particularly on Zeno, Melissus, Anaxagoras, and Empedocles. In the end, Parmenides' distinction among the principal modes of being, and his arguments regarding what what must be must be like, simply in virtue of its mode of being, entitle him to be seen as the founder of metaphysics or ontology as a domain of inquiry distinct from natural philosophy and theology. An appendix presents a Greek text of the fragments of Parmenides' poem with English translation and textual notes. |
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| Good Morning! |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|01:21 pm] |
It is Diabetes Week, and I had Doritos and a Diet Coke for breakfast.
Also, today my boss asked me to completely redo the data analysis that I've been working on for like a year. And to get it to him this afternoon.
My today is just awesome! How is YOURS? |
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| more from Zizek's Twitter |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|10:26 am] |
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Intellectuals are a product of history. In this sense, no society can complain of its intellectuals without accusing itself. |
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| from a comment I wrote on flavor dave's FB |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|10:19 am] |
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| | all you need is love | ] |
I have been arguing with everybody who will listen about the abuse of the understanding of hipster and irony. but nobody knows how to take what I'm saying with its full sense of humor. hipster is an ironic hegemony. irony in the service, ironically, or smug conformity. anti-intellectual, no jazz, no passion. desire effaced. it's a bad fucking situation. |
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[Nov. 10th, 2009|10:14 am] |
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"Art, like morality, consists of drawing a line somewhere." G.K. Chesterton |
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| I am now following Zizek on Twitter. what a world. |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|10:02 am] |
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In Žižek's view, "Rawls's model works on one fateful condition: that there is no resentment . . . Rawls doesn't take into account the irrationality of envy. In capitalist relations today, envy is crucial. Never underestimate the power of envy. Although Rawls and other egalitarian liberals want to be 'no-bullshit' analysts, the ultimate image of the human being on which their accounts are based is way too naive and utopian." Žižek is equally unforgiving of those further to the left of Rawls. "I've noticed how many of the people who consider themselves to be more radical than the liberal standard do not work in political theory proper but, as it were, hide themselves as literary critics or philosophers. It's as if their radicalism is an excess which requires them to change genre."
http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2009/11/381-382-interview-obama-theory
p.s. Zizek wrote the funniest Twitter ever: "I am on the toilet" |
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