April 2011
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Apr 28th
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“Ultimately, imagination stands for the capacity of our mind to dismember what...”
– Slavoj Zizek, The Ticklish Subject (via losophy)
Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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“The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate...”
– Donna Haraway, “The Cyborg Manifesto”
Apr 22nd
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White Lion Cubs recently born! →
Apr 22nd
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Goucher's Athenaeum: A case study in going green... →
Another new post from Fist-Swinging Feminist! This time, we’re talking about the backwards notion of an environmentally friendly technocratic building.
Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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Media Mistakes: the science of oversimplification →
New post from Fist-Swinging Feminist! In response to an article highwaydandy showed me, I’ve written about the unethical behavior of the media regarding scientific studies. With a focus of page views instead of finding truth, journalism seems to have lost it’s way.
Apr 20th
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theonlyplfrmat asked: Before you write some of your awesome commentary on the link that last person sent you, please be aware that the science behind the story is total crap.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/01/the_new_phrenology.php
Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
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highwaydandy asked: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/28/conservatives-fear-center-brain/

Thought you might enjoy deconstructing this.
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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David Sanger: On US interest and ideals in the... →
New post of Fist-Swinging Feminist about the recent David Sanger talk at Goucher. This one is focused on US political interest versus ideals in regards to the “Arab Spring.” 
Apr 19th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 12th
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Disrupting the Death of Reality: Discontinuous...
This is a paper I submitted to my Film Theory class. Enjoy? The act of cinematic representation is one that carries with it great potential danger to reality and meaning. The typical film is one of narrative implementing continuity editing intended to lead the viewer down a simple and clear path in such a way as they see the film as a “found” reality. While these films can include themes and some...
Apr 12th
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Reasons why I regret not taking a John Rose class...
While his paper topics are definitely almost uncomfortably narrow, they yield so many more “holy shit, I totally get this now!” moments than the average paper.  Thing I understand better now than I did this morning: Intuition and experience vs. judgment and understanding Also, the motion sensitive lights in the commuter lounge keep turning off because I’m sitting still, and...
Apr 11th
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"If we build it, they will come" and ruin our... →
New post at Fist-Swinging Feminist! This one’s all about the Maryland bill to provide In-state college tuition to illegal immigrants and how Republicans still hate everyone!
Apr 10th
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Apr 9th
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Repeat after me
I will not take my frustration out on ignorant people on facebook I will not take my frustration out on ignorant people on facebook I will not take my frustration out on ignorant people on facebook I will not take my frustration out on ignorant people on facebook I will not take my frustration out on ignorant people on facebook I will not take my frustration out on ignorant people on facebook I...
Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
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dewink asked: "Better than Chocolate"
....I couldn't figure out how to answer you on my tumblr because I suck at this.

I'm not done watching it yet, but I love it so far haha.

I miss you!
Apr 5th
zeitvox asked: Hey... the commentary you quoted about "bursting forth of the Hegelian fruit" (i.e. out of Kantian subject): Who/what was that?

...a good point. A really good point. Since not a shit tonne of good Hegel commentaries, would be good to know.

Jean Hyppolite's Genesis and Structure is kick ass... as is Richard Kroner's introduction to Hegel's...
Apr 5th
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It might be time to put Hegel down
The movement from the Kantian subject to the Hegelian subject is itself dialectical. It is not that the Hegelian subject renders the Kantian subject an inaccurate fancy, but rather that the Hegelian subject negates the Kantian one.  The Kantian subject becomes the blossom which is necessary for the bursting forth of the Hegelian fruit.
Apr 5th
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Time for another addition of 19th century...
Oh, Hegel, why must you be so intuitive, and yet so difficult to discuss? (Get it? It’s a joke about the process of becoming and the systematic nature of philosophy as science)
Apr 5th
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Apr 1st
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