February 2009
“The essence of a humanities education — reading the great literary and...”
– In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth [via]
“Wait, define “amputate.”
– Things I Thought or Heard While Serving in Iraq / Steven A. Devine [via]
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“Jet Boy, Jet Girl” by Elton Motello...
“Before the economy turned south, I used to go out to eat, maybe buy a DVD or...”
– Weekends different because of the economy? [via]
“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming...”
– Antonio Gramsci [via]
“It’s not what the town prude thinks about you that’s the issue, it’s whether...”
– In response to the question ” At what point is promiscuity self-destructive? At what point is it empowering?” Sexpert Susie Bright Answers Your Burning Questions: Part 2 [via]
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One of my major longstanding irritations aka I am...
I don’t like to ‘travel’ and I think that, while experiencing other localities besides your own is a good experience that allows you to view the world differently, the leisure activity of traveling/vacationing/backpacking etc is peculiar, and the meaning/implications of it are often distorted.
I really hate the exotification/glorification of ‘travel’, especially as...
“We’ve had two different belief systems in this country,” says Debra Boyer, a...”
– Teens and the sex trade [via]
“I find that I am rewriting History, trying to make it resemble me, Kara (and me,...”
– Kara Walker “Kara Walker,” interview by Ali Subotnick, Make, 92 (Special Edition 2002): 25-27. [via]
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“Marking Time” by The Olivia Tremor...
“Your tongue tastes like a tongue / And your lungs breathe just like lungs / But...”
– “Fluid” by The Gerbils
“Grin” by The Gerbils If you were to...
“This is not to say that every course is a good course or that every field of...”
– Squashed: Attacking the Liberal Arts
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Open Campus →
Jane Cooper Elementary sits gutted in one of the worst parts of one of the most impoverished and dangerous cities in the richest nation in the world. In the late 1990s, Mayor Dennis Archer’s office identified this neighborhood as having “more children, more people living in poverty, a greater proportion of high school dropouts, and a larger percentage of violent juvenile offenses than...
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“Chelsea Hotel #2” by Leonard Cohen...
“Bring Da Ruckus” by Wu-Tang Clan...
“‘But surely one thing art can still do is to take a stand, and to do this in a...”
– 3quarksdaily [via]
thoughts as I am coming up on my qualifying exams
Maybe I shouldn’t be trying to be an academic. Maybe I would rather be partying all the time.
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“When I was a sophomore in high school, a junior invited me to be his date at the...”
– The Problem with Gay Marriage
“The only person keeping you from your dreams is you- unless that is your dreams...”
– mattoxic commenting on To sow or not to sow is the question
Collapsitarians →
That’s the question on everyone’s mind. Once you start thinking about it, you can imagine it going very low: unemployment, massive layoffs, huge migrations, class warfare, classic war, and without much effort, you soon arrive at the collapse of civilization itself.
Regional interconnectedness →
“A new modernity is emerging, reconfigured to an age of globalisation –...”
– Altermodern Manifesto - POSTMODERNISM IS DEAD [via]
“There’s bigger issues here. I don’t like talk about sterilizing...”
– Susie Bright [via]
America's Emptiest Cities →
Vacancy rates in these spots spell lots of empty neighborhoods. [via]
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“Response to Griot” by Defiance, Ohio
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