‘Winter of Discontent’ is to the british conservative media what ‘The Emperor got no clothes’ is to the american conservative media - a phrase that is being applied to virtually every political situation, regardless of context.
“When we make fun of an attitude, the truth is often in this attitude, not in the distance we take towards it: I make fun of it to conceal from myself the fact that it actually determines my activity. Someone who mock his own love for a woman, say, often thereby expresses his uneasiness at being so deeply attached to her.” — Slavoj Zizek - Less than Nothing
Meanwhile, in France… #12
Philosopher-on-Philosopher violence
Dante in Philosophy Hell, #2
Awkward young Hipster-Nietzsche, #3
My campus is more beautiful than yours.
Meanwhile, in France…., #11
Speaking of Hegel, allow me to repost a picture I made ages ago
This weekend is my university’s outrageously expensive summer ball, and two days later my copy of Zizek’s outrageously expensive 1200 pages book on Hegel should arrive. Could it be….could it be that I will finally experience this phenomenon called ‘happiness’ that I heard so much about?
No punchlines involved here, it is just that I saw the great Gatsby trailer and needed to see bad things happen to Baz Luhrmann to soothe myself.
Dante in Philosophy Hell, #1
Fear and Foucault in Death Valley
(this is an excerpt from James Miller’s ‘The Passion of Michel Foucault)