February 2012
3 posts
“I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
...
December 2011
1 post
Vaclav Havel, Dead at 75 →
Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia, has died.
November 2011
1 post
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy
October 2011
3 posts
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
July 2011
1 post
“It takes a lot of things to change the world:
Anger and tenacity. Science and...”
– Bertolt Brecht
June 2011
4 posts
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (via libraryland)
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
6 posts
“I cannot show you I love you. Time will show you I love you.”
– Unknown
mxmlsm: Thesis on strange surprise →
tentacular:
We agreed: it seems improbable that after years, decades, of politics, action, research, we can still be so easily shocked. You know it’s not uncommon to hear activists, while discussing quotidian barbarities - the system’s incredible & everyday sadisms - confessing, almost…
March 2011
1 post
politique
a4rizm:
La politique est une expérimentation active, parce qu’on ne sait pas d’avance comment une ligne va tourner. Faire passer la ligne, dit le comptable : mais justement on peut la faire passer n’importe où.
Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet, Dialogues, Flammarion, 1996, pp. 165-166.
February 2011
8 posts
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in...
Sevelim sevilelimLet us be lovers and loved ones,Dünyaya kimse kalmazThe earth shall be left to no one.— Yunus Emre translated by Prof. Dr. “Talât Sait Halman” in the Symphony of Dialogue (2009) by the Turkish composer Evrim Demirel
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Like a scrap book of thought but more…
Streams of color — painting...”
– Heather Nelson’s answer to: “What do you think of my blog?”
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of Truth and Love...”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Yesterday we were all Tunisian. Today we are all Egyptian. Tomorrow we`ll all be...”
– Birgitta Jónsdóttir Member of the Icelandic Parliament for the Movement.
January 2011
7 posts
“Ever since Homo sapiens first coalesced into tribes, war has been part of the...”
– Jon Krakauer - Where Men Win Glory (via holtermark)
We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone — our parents, teachers, analysts — hypnotizes us to “see” the world and construe it in the “right” way. These others label the world, attach names and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it saying other things...
“An anarchist is someone who doesn’t need a cop to make him behave.”
– Ammon Hennacy (via creedminusgun)
December 2010
4 posts
Things that hurt...
strawberrytelle:
Being unsure of how someone feels about you.
Feeling like they are mad at you.
Being misunderstood by people you care about.
Being judged by people you care about.
Feeling like you lost something that was never yours.
Feeling like you’re doing too much.
Thinking you aren’t doing enough.
Not knowing if you should say something.
Worried about what they’ll think if you do...
“We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we...”
– Julian Assange
Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched.
How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These...
Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The poetics and... →
academicreading:
By Michel-Rolph Trouillot, in Recapturing Anthropology.
For Rousseau, as for More and Defoe, the savage is an argument for a particular kind of utopia. For Iselin and Meiners, as for Swift and Hobbes in other times and contexts, it is an argument against it… The nineteenth century blurred the most visible signs of this thematic correspondence by artificially separating utopia...
November 2010
4 posts
“It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in...”
– John Waters (via liquidnight)
October 2010
4 posts
Firesheep →
onethingwell:
You’ve probably read about Firesheep, the Firefox extension that scans an open WiFi network for unencrypted cookies issued by various popular sites—including Amazon, Facebook, Google and Twitter—and lets you log in as any user it can find.
Until the sites in question fix this long-standing security hole, here’s a few things you can do to help prevent less scrupulous types from...
“We don’t maintain a philosophy of publish and be damned. Rather, we...”
– Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder
“I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will...”
– Albert Einstein - The World as I See It (via mnmal)
“When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to...”
– (via foldyourheart)
September 2010
6 posts
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the...”
– Bishop Desmond Tutu (1931- ) Nobel Prize for Peace 1984