October 2011
1 post
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.
August 2011
1 post
June 2011
4 posts
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
3 posts
“While nothing is easier than to denounce the evil-doer, nothing is more...”
– Dosteyevsk
“All I’m saying is that it’s shortsighted to blame TV. It’s...”
– DFW
March 2011
2 posts
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are...”
– Heidegger
February 2011
2 posts
“It’s of some interest that the lively arts of the millennial U.S.A. treat...”
– dfw
March 2010
1 post
Are machines becoming more human, or humans more machine?
February 2010
1 post
“It is not good for men to get all that they wish to get. Whatever our desire...”
– Heraclitus
January 2010
1 post
“The West thinks it is the sole possessor of the clever trick that will allow it...”
– Bruno Latour
December 2009
1 post
August 2009
1 post
July 2009
4 posts
“There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no...”
– Patrick Bateman
June 2009
27 posts
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Come gather ‘round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’.
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The...
“This spending the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy...”
– Henry David Thoreau
“A few years ago, microbiologist Gemma Reguera of Michigan State University...”
– Microbes May Be More Networked Than You Are
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions...”
– Edward Bernays
“…what follows is a quote from a New York Times article: the delay in...”
– A different take on the State Department’s Twitter request by Evgeny Morozov
“Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative...”
– Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away
WatchPatricia Burchat sheds light on dark matter
Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between them, they can’t be directly measured, but their influence is immense.
“Seeing some of these people online turning their profile pictures green “for...”
– Jeremy Scahill (via mikesoron)
“The demand that radicals be free from hypocrisy, free from any implication in...”
– “Days of War, Nights of Love” by the CrimethInc. Collective (via sustainable systems)
WatchLife Inc. The Movie
“If, at the end of the war, the scientific organization, which had been created...”
– In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
“…the way scientific and technical work is made invisible by its own...”
– Bruno Latour in Pandora’s Hope
“The truth has no casual power that draws scientific beliefs towards it. Instead,...”
– Sergio Sismondo
“The most illuminating analogy for today’s corporate leadership is this:...”
– The Capitalist Manifesto — How to Modernize Capitalism from Feudalism to Democracy
““Slacktivism” is the ideal type of activism for a lazy generation:...”
– The brave new world of slacktivism
