❝ But most of all, the gift that Žižek has given us is the sense that it’s time to take clear, blunt positions on issues, after a two-decade interlude in which prose was always supposed to meander and hedge its bets and regard puns as if they were philosophical arguments. That was the 1980′s and much of the 1990′s, and Žižek was one of those who dealt that style a death-blow.
— Graham Harman - Review of Žižek in The New Statesman (via towerofsleep)
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❝ Tectonic grammar is a unifying model that attempts to explain the origin of patterns of deformation in the crust, asemantic distribution, semantic drift, and mid-morphemic ridges, as well as providing a mechanism for language to cool (in simple terms, language is just an immense spheroid of magmatic inscription which has crystallized into solid words where it has been exposed to the coldness of space).
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Craig Dworkin, Strand.
I talked to Craig Dworkin at a reading on Friday. It was nice. He played a recording of a famous speech (wish I could remember it, it involved Vietnam) with all the words edited out so the recording consisted of the little plosives and mouth noises we make while articulating. So kewl! Wish I wrote down what it was exactly, it may be on the internet somewhere.
Taking a swim test to graduate.
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“Tiffany Lou” is a twangy Best New Track from our latest Rising artist, Daughn Gibson— like “James Blake with a ten-gallon cowboy hat,” writes Jayson Greene.
This is real cool.
(Source: which-one-is-yours)
GEEKIN
Wow, I just won tickets to see Shabazz Palaces tomorrow from the Fader. I have never won a contest in my life.
