February 2012
9 posts
Valentine's Day Pick-up Lines from your Favorite...
Anselm: You’re the greatest conceivable being, baby. I’m glad you exist.
Aquinas: Hey remember when I said, “As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power?” Sorry I was such an asshole. Let me...
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The Cost of Knowledge
Elsevier, the Dutch global publishing company, “owns” about 2,000 peer-reviewed journals, as well as 20,000 medical and science books. More important, the piratical publishing company charges libraries too much for its journals; it bundles subscriptions, which forces libraries to spend extra funds to buy journals they don’t want just to gain access to the few journals they do want (and which...
January 2012
28 posts
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Soap Operas With a Message - NYTimes.com →
Around the world, from North India to South Africa, there are dozens of television and radio shows that tightly weave social themes into entertaining narratives, a technique often referred to as “entertainment-education.” Writers develop fictional characters that model positive or negative behaviors, and through their stories and struggles, audiences learn about issues ranging from domestic...
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Cultural Marxism
The state of the world today is not pretty. It is timely to revisit the works of Antonio Gramsci and his fellow intellectuals on cultural Marxism. Whatever is happening has been foretold, long before bailouts and censorship became a staple in our vocabulary.
So what is cultural marxism?
It includes the disarmament of the public, the invalidation of self-defence and the incitement of fear.
It...
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On Foodieism
partycove:
If we take as generally accepted principles of modern urban morality that it is desirable and acceptable to pursue pleasure for its own sake, precluding harm to others, and that each should be left to his own devices in life, then I propose that the cultural phenomenon of the ‘Foodie’ exposes a want for a hierarchy of pleasures in urban reasoning.
The ‘Foodie’ can reasonably be taken...
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“That already famous article says that one should date a girl who reads or,...”
– HEGEMON.
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The Joy of Quiet →
youmightfindyourself:
By PICO IYER NY Times Published: December 29, 2011
ABOUT a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on “Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow.” Soon after I arrived, the chief executive of the agency that had invited us took me aside....
December 2011
23 posts
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“A sociologist looks at daily life differently. Walking through a market with...”
– One World in 60 Seconds - The Socjournal (via sociolab)
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