The goal of advertising is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices. Those of you who suffered through an economics course know that...
*"Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them. They are useful nothing more. But they touch...
What does this nonsense mean and where does it come from? Sounds like it could be from Nausea, which did not impress me. ... [Non-text portions of this...
Reification (German: Verdinglichung, literally: "thing-ification" (from Latin "Res" meaning "thing") or Versachlichung, literally "objectification" or...
Ah, but poor sad Jack, pained by epiphany at Big Sur 1962. He couldn’t believe in anything. He couldn’t even forgive himself. Six weeks, only six, of...
See also: <http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/reification1.html>Reification by Gajo Petrovic. Petrovic was a key member of the Yugoslav Praxis School. ... ...
"...the most seditious book that ever was written; its author does not stop short of exhorting to general anarchy; he vilifies kings, priests and nobles, and...
Ken Knabb, the Situationist International, and the American Counterculture The Originality of the American Left and Counterculture The United States is...
via Grant Lee: So much for the postmodernist complaint about Marx imposing universal theories on history... "Events strikingly similar, but occurring in a...
Dorothy Porter wrote: PLEASURE After the Cleopatra exhibition, British Museum Is it the bite of a sighing crocodile? All your voluptuous bleeding incense come...
"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." ...
it fits well with this I wrote: Nietzsche, social Darwinism, Darwinism, morality and gender ... Nietzsche argues against Christianity as a system of values. My...
http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/11/20tucker.html "Damn it, Dagny! I need the government to get out of the way and let me do my job!" She sat across the desk from...
Dialogue in scene from “Easy Rider” between George (Jack Nicholson) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) George Ya know, this used to be a helluva good country. I...
I thought this dialogue was pretty dumb until I got to this part: "I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of...
Pre-Oedipal Nietzscheans The pre-Oedipal level of development, (which as adults we have access to, to varying degrees, depending on context and personality),...
We need to act fast. Hidden in the fine print of Prime Minister Rudd's woefully inadequate 5% climate target announcement on Monday was over $130 million for...
Hi Ralph, Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHd6m_cirrU&feature=related I saw EASY RIDER at a drive-in when it came out. At the time, I was...
"General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit...
........although this Modernist notion of freedom is that which the postmodernists (to some degree correctly) oppose as enlightenment principles which can too...
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Liberals rarely understand what communists mean by freedom. Mike B) ... postmodernists (to some degree correctly) oppose as enlightenment principles which can...
Maybe not. But I'm sure they mean it in a deeply felt way--the communists. It's just a little hard to explain in technicality. ... From: Michael Ballard To:...
The permafrost is melting methane from ages past the arctic circle oozes dead carbon based bodies spewing into an already thickened atmospheric soup making us...
Neuroses are pillars of society; they thwart the better potential of men, and thus the objectively better condition which men might bring about. There are...
"[Credit is T]he principal lever of overproduction and excessive speculation in commerce, this is simply because the reproduction process, which is elastic by...
History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses and fights; history is...
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