August 2011
5 posts
February 2011
3 posts
January 2011
17 posts
“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky in Notes from the Underground (via samreynard)
mills: Internet Stupidity →
mills:
Technologies which are vectors for the transmission of information -narratives or datasets or social communication- inform human thought as surely as does language itself. The structures of one’s grammar and the content of one’s vocabulary -both dictional and conceptual- delimit one’s cognition,…
Rare (lost) Words →
tristifical - causing to be sad or mournful. eternitarian - one who believes in the eternity of the soul. cosmogyral - whirling round the universe. siagonology - study of jaw-bones. autexousious - exercising or possessing free will. nepheliad - cloud-nymph. gardeviance -chest for valuables; a travelling trunk. ictuate - to emphasize. senticous - prickly; thorny. interfation - act of interrupting...
That moment when you're reading a book and you...
crashinglybeautiful:
I find this very, very funny. From libraryland & snapesgrudge
i find this far funnier than i should.
December 2010
6 posts
this is one of those "only-in-korea" days
hey korea, next time you want to hold an air raid drill, lemme know, ok? otherwise, its a bit unnerving hearing bomb sirens blaring out and watching everybody running for bomb shelters.
Zadie Smith on The Social Network (the movie) and... →
youmightfindyourself:
When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears. It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated...
November 2010
22 posts
“It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in...”
– John Waters (via liquidnight)
“The beginnings of Dada were not the beginnings of an art, but of a disgust....”
– Dadaism by Tzara.
Fuck Yeah Existentialism:
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the...”
– Frank Zappa (via superfluidity)
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it's 11:35 on a saturday night
and i’m drinking scotch and reading heidegger. by choice.
467 hours and 31 minutes
until i move to korea. not that i’m counting.
