1. If you don't believe in abortion - DON'T HAVE ONE. Educate your children and families on birth control (or abstinence if you choose) But, do not take away this right from women in dire needs across the nation. Most women I would assume do not have abortions for fun. They have them because they are impoverished, have health risks, know that they ( Read more... )

I realize that this will probably have no significance unless you have studied art history or philosophy. This makes me sad =( Part of my thesis was based on his theory of deconstruction...=(

French philosopher Derrida, father of deconstruction, dies at 74PARIS (AFP) - Jacques Derrida, one of France's best-known philosophers and the founder of the ( Read more... )

I have been so tired this week and have been getting into work at 10am instead of 9am, like I really care about the specifics of getting here on time anymore ( Read more... )

This is an excellent article from one of the best philosophers of our post-modern generation, Slavoj Zizek, who is a professor in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This article is not written for the mass media - its written obviously on a more intellectual level. It does not read like a newsfeed, but more like an academic essay or a history book. It is worth ( Read more... )

It may be said that we watch too much television. I even say that we watch too much television. But, you know what, it all depends on HOW you watch television and the type of television that you watch. Inevitably, it comes down to what you get out of it and how you can learn and apply seemingly meaningless things to something meaningful. This ( Read more... )

After consulting a team of expert philosopher's to discuss the theorectical implications of shiny nipples, here is the weekend wrap-up ( Read more... )

I think I pinpointed it. I just need a term for it (which I am sure that Chris probably knows since he corrected me on the usage of atheist in a post a couple months ago ( Read more... )

After I told Tim that I was reading a combination of Nietzsche and Proust ( Read more... )

I just finished writing about Karl Marx, Communism, Dada and Punk. It was fun. I forgot how much I really enjoyed Greil Marcus' "Lipstick Traces". Now, I have an hour to kill, I suppose that I could be all scholastic and get a head start on next week's readings on Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, but I would rather give my brain a rest before class ( Read more... )

I just got back from my mini-jaunt to the PMA. I am doing my visual analysis on Fra Angelico's "Funeral of the Virgin". Pelta gave us several different choices for what we had to do our visual anlysis on. I have to read a chapter for Italian Renaissance Art too. I was most happy to find out that I have almost completely forgotten all of the ( Read more... )