can anybody think of any more?

nonrelational quanta-continuum mechanics

four dimensional volume transforms

trans-euclidean geometry

overgeneralized relativity

overspecialized relativity

While one is hesitant, and rightfully so, to invoke the language of dialectic, it is in this one case almost wholly appropriate. The oppositional movements of neo-catharticism and recapitulationism both emerging simultaneously and virtually ex nihilo from the ashes of postmodernity do not, in themselves, represent a way forward. To their adherents ( Read more... )

"'My Bloody Valentine's Loveless is quite possibly the most important rock record ever made."
E.L. Borgnine Antisymposia

RIP Arthur Miller

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The only real problem with indulgence in rare pleasures is the interminable anhedonic nausea that follows. Living in the desert, a bedouin can grow accustomed to long periods of dehydration, so much so that he loses the capacity to thirst. The man is never so thirsty as in the few moments after having drunk a large ( Read more... )

So, on a recommendation from degram I read The Ethical Slut last night in an attempt to get more of a handle on this whole multivalence of sexual behavior thing that's been bugging me lately, and the whole time i couldn't shake the feeling that I'd heard of this book somewhere before. It was published to recently for it to have been something from ( Read more... )

morrissey brings all the boys to the yard. whatever that means. which isn't to say he doesn't. whatever that means, I'm sure morrissey does it.

E.L. Borgnine:

In examining a phenomenon like the Smiths...context is unusually important.

From Pop Art Antichrist: The Nietzche/Warhol Axis of Praxis

also, just found this one this evening:
Danto has ( Read more... )

the death machine and I were discussing the problem of the late postmodern voice over the weekend. the glibness and self satisfied quality that Jonathen Franzen, Michael Chabon, or even David Foster Wallace have ( Read more... )

One will note that in the Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories, there is an undercurrent of violent sexual fantasy. Alt.sex.stories has over the years become an online database of human sexual desire. One finds in it explicit depictions of violent sexual fantasies. What's strangely absent, however, is the presence of a wide and varied field of ( Read more... )

...for example, pornstar nyodene apercus once wrote that the essence of all freedom is encapsulated in the moment of a single, unwanted penetration. She has described her rape at age fourteen as the single most liberating moment of her life. She argues in her autobiography for a naive Hegelian dialectic that takes place in involuntary intercourse. ( Read more... )

point 1.) I hate my job. I hate the atmosphere. I hate the fact that I feel this cold sinking sensation in my gut everytime I have to go into work. I hate that I leave work with a headache and that working there makes me want to drink more ( Read more... )