thank you, numb3rs, for not doing what i was so, so afraid you were going to do.

( sp0il3rz, yo )

1. The dynamic/s of BDSM, particularly the (possibility of the) phenomenon of "topping from the bottom," problematize/s transitivity in interpersonal relations, in part because of the peculiar structures of self-reference involved ( Read more... )

a) make sweeping claims about the nature of the human world ( Read more... )

i am in an inexplicably good mood. perhaps rum, fluoxetine, friends, and thoughts of the love of a lifetime are enough? i suspect--maybe, just maybe--it is so ( Read more... )

(allow me this little bit of nauseating sentimentality, please?)

in the end it was not being worthy that made you loved, but being loved that made you worthy.

how did i become so unbelievably lucky?

the death of god is a strange loop.

...got slightly drunk (and slightly obnoxious) while playing texas hold'em (not too badly i might add) with three philosophers (philosophy students?) who have awesome apartments and a doctor (med student?) who thinks surgery is boring ( Read more... )

or, why i find augustine so compellingperhaps the single most devastating consequence of the ultimate impossibility of totalization is the (near?) inevitability of ethical failure. however careful we are, however open and attentive, however experienced and knowledgeable, however reflective--however deeply, genuinely, completely committed we are to ( Read more... )