January 2011
12 posts
I’ve met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, “Why?” Why did I cause so much pain? Didn’t I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can’t I see that we’re all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God’s...
Things that shouldn't exist →
I have a new blog, entirely dedicated to weird, pointless, grotesque and confusing things
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If we give up the idea of pervasive, underlying epistemological constraints; if we start to see the plurality of constraints that inform the various special disciplines, never mind ordinary, unsystematic factual discourse, as genuinely irreducible; if we become suspicious of the idea that “our powers and faculties” can be evaluated independently of everything having to do with the...
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The destructive character’s only watchword is: Make room… The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates, because it clears out of the way the traces of our own age.
“‘the spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a...”
– Peter Medawar
I just read a text by David Lewis where it seems as if he is trying to write like Nietzsche, which is hilarious because he is an analytic metaphysician who writes about parallel universes. The only kind of philosopher I can think of who Nietzsche might hate more would be a female analytic metaphysician who writes about parallel universes, all of which are populated by heterosexual people incapable...
The Prisoner's Dilemma
Neil, Marta and David need tickets for the ‘Grand’, the worst club associated with this university, but were all too lazy to get them in time. Marta calls Neil to tell him, that tickets might be for sale again at 19:30 at the bar, so Neil and David agree to meet her there. What Marta doesn’t know is, that Neil and David secretly don’t intend to walk to the bar to meet...
In an old joke from the defunct German Democratic Republic, a German worker gets a job in Siberia; aware of how all mail will be read by the censors, he tells his friends: ‘Let’s establish a code: if a letter you get from me is written in ordinary blue ink, it’s true; if it’s written in red ink, it’s false.’ After a month, his friends get the first letter, written in blue ink: ‘Everything is...
Five nice ambient albums of 2010
in no particular order. I am certainly forgetting lots of good stuff, but I just selected a few that caught my eye when I looked at what I listened to in the past week.
Brian McBride - The Effective Disconnect
Brian McBride is one half of the ambient duo Stars of the Lid, who make the most stunning ambient music in the world, and this album was apparently made for a movie about bees, which...