February 2012
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“It is therefore the task of history, now the truth is no longer in the beyond,...”
– - Karl Marx, Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
See Katharine Sarah Moody’s “Atheism for Lent: Religion as Ideology (Marx 1)”
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“But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt,...”
– Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (via mythologyofblue)
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#pseudointellectualproblems
You know that Žižek has fully infected your cognitive processes when every time you see somebody use the hashtag “firstworldproblems” you want to slap them and tell them that their knowing detachment is exactly the mechanism by which they can bitch and complain about petty problems in the first place.
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“This … is the most important ethics lesson of the twentieth century: we...”
– Slavoj Žižek, The Puppet and the Dwarf
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The Commodores - Nightshift
Legitimately one of...
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Katharine Sarah Moody: Atheism for Lent: Religion... →
The permanence of conflict is Freud’s leading theme, and part of his hostility to religion stems from an awareness that religion somewhere assumes a fixed point … at which conflict is resolved. In contrast, Freud maintains an intractable dualism; self and world remain antagonists, and every form…
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Katharine Sarah Moody: Atheism for Lent:... →
katharinesarahmoody:
As we approach the festival of Easter, we aim to experience something of what Jesus felt on the Cross. In his cry, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” God confesses the absence of God.
…let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their…
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Streets Ahead!
Okay you guys, I’m just really pumped that Community is coming back on March 15. It’s like Dan Harmon is giving me a birthday present a day early.
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Anonymous asked: The Face Of The Deep
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“Even secularism itself, Critchley maintains, is a religious myth, based as it is...”
– Tea with Simon Critchley: The Separation of Church and State Is Impossible [New Yorker]
Not fond of the entire blog piece but I enjoyed this bit.
(via thenoobyorker)
Reblogging for cool things and to read it later on.
(via landofoblivion)
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So this happened on my blog this morning
In response to an article entitled “The ‘little other’ and the Sublimity of the Event”.
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Anonymous asked: What would Jesus deconstruct?
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John Caputo - "The Prayers and Tears of Jacques...
intellectualvalentinesday:
“God” may be the undeconstructable claim backed by weak force, but Valentine, you make me weak in the knees.
Thanks, waterwasntbuilt!
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Dang, why do North American schools gotta be so boring with their insistence on analytic philosophy? The only place I’m getting any continental thought is sociology.
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THE ONLY CHURCH THAT ILLUMINATES IS A BURNING... →
Slavoj Žižek: “Agape as political love means unconditional, egalitarian love for one’s neighbour can serve as the foundation of a new order.”
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The ask button
Press it. Make magic happen. Help me ignore these philosophy of science articles.
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“When will the citizens of the United States finally elect an openly gay...”
– Possibly the greatest article opener ever?
“Mellow Nihilism”: A Review of Gianni Vattimo’s Nihilism and Emancipation by Robert Savino Oventile
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– The password Syrian President Bashar Assad apparently had for some of his email accounts, which were hacked by Anonymous. (via villagevoice)
That’s the kind of combination an idiot puts on his luggage!
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January 2012
58 posts
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