January 2009
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“You are not born dangerous-class. You become so the moment you cease to...”
– Alice Becker-Ho, The Essence of Jargon, translated by John McHale
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Axel Honneth's Tanner Lecture on Reification, 2005 →
“Before I can further pursue the question of what type of mistake reification constitutes, it is necessary to depict the next step in Lukacs’s analysis. As we have seen, until now he has applied the concept of “things” or “thingness” quite carelessly to every sort of phenomenon that a subject could possibly perceive in its surroundings, or in its own person, as...
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Theses On Feuerbach →
Marx’s Thesis On Feuerbach Online:
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.”
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Shepard Fairey's Sources →
Don’t know that I agree with the sentiment of the link (that Shepard Fairey is a plagiarist (and this a negative thing)), but it is interesting to see the origins of his swipes.
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“It’s not if you win the game; it’s whether you bought it.”
– Dialog from Vampire: Bloodlines computer game
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“One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.”
– Adorno
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“The greatness that determines value is space-time, the instant or the event. The...”
– Asger Jorn, The End of the Economy and the Realization of Art.
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“~ Heidegger’s Being and Time “cannot be understood without the...”
– Lucien Goldmann, Immanuel Kant
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“The question I ask myself is the following: to understand why numbers make...”
– Pierre Lusson
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Facebook's Valuation via Burger King →
What BK has unwittingly done here is provide a way to determine the valuation of Facebook. Let’s assume that the majority of Facebook’s value comes from the connections between their users. From Facebook’s statistics page, we learn that the site has 150 million users and the average user has 100 friends. Each friendship is requires the assent of both friends so really each user...
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“It is difficult to blow the same house up twice.”
– Jacques Roubaud
