So I’ve been reconstructing my beloved 103.9 WDRE in the form of mp3s of their playlists which I will keep all at once on an iPod now and forevermore, and
Some of the songs are proving hard to find. This is because they were vinyl-only and not classics that would get compiled in the 00s by, […]
I’m reading the new Slavoj Zizek book The Parallax View - reading isn’t right; more like being scratched up by - and so far in the thicket of many interesting ideas and incomprehensible shorthand dialogues with previous philosophies I have gathered a couple digestive berries, like a reminder of the Lacanian Master-Signifier:
Let us imagine a […]
So says Paul Ricoeur, a philosopher who, honestly, I never understood well. I should go back and read Oneself As Another, but I won’t, or if I do I’ll feel rushed and stupid and in need of assistance.
Being caught up in philosophy or psychoanalysis or culture studies is not unlike being a big comic book […]
I got Ivan Brunetti’s Schizo #2 in the mail today and read it. Brunetti has a gift for articulating the fantasies some of us (just me? I don’t know what your inner life is like) drift toward.
Anarchy is free-form fascism. Animals already live in anarchy: they act only by imprinted instinct and follow no written […]
del.icio.us new popular is maybe 100x smarter than Digg, although Digg is newsier.
If I had a campaign song, it would be Denise Williams’ “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” even though I’m terribly straight. My Republican detractors would be all like “he’s admitted to taking drugs! his wealth comes from pornography!” and I’d put on […]
I’m finally reading the Cambridge (green) translation of Human, All Too Human, which is: breathtaking. Anyone can understand and profit from Nietzsche, and I think his middle period, which is pretty much this and Daybreak is especially valuable although it isn’t as relentlessly important as the post-eternal recurrence pre-insanity 1883-1887 works. (Yeah, I think Fred […]
Dad,
I don’t know if you’re interested in thinking about something that’s at best orthogonally related to your own work, but I just read this interview with Marjorie Grene, called the “grandmother of the philosophy of biology” and it’s interesting.
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200503/interview_grene.php
The interesting stuff comes 3/5ths of the way down when she starts talking about morality and genetics […]