December 2009
48 posts
“A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island […] [E]ven before he is...”
– Jean-François Lyotard: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (translated by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi) (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
“The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man,...”
– Mircea Eliade (via nihilnoetia)
Taking Mental Snapshots to Plumb Our Inner Selves... →
psychotherapy
Betrachtung - Franz Kafka →
lapetitebaobab:
Contemplation, or Meditation (Betrachtung in German) is a sequence of nineteen short stories by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912.
Children on a Country Road Unmasking a Confidence Trickster The Sudden Walk Resolutions Excursion into the Mountains Bachelor’s Ill Luck The Tradesman Absent-minded Window-gazing The Way Home Passers-by On the Tram Clothes Rejection...
“To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as...”
– Theodore Zeldin (via nihilnoetia)
“The origin of philosophy is not wonder, as Plato and Aristotle taught, but...”
– (Kierkegaard and the Existential Philosophy) - Lev Shestov (via lapetitebaobab)
Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet -...
The questions you ask me, my dear Clea, are the very questions I am putting myself. I must get them a little clearer before I tidy up the last volume in which I want above all to combine, resolve and harmonize the tensions so far created. I feel I want to sound a note of… affirmation - though not in the specific terms of a philosophy or religion. It should have the curvature of an embrace,...
WatchJim Jarmusch on The Limits of Control
Sonic Youth’s Top 10 (or 12) movies →
via criterion.com
Lee picks Fassbinder’s Fear Eats The Soul and Thurston picks Mamma Roma.
Band names that you have trouble pronouncing →
“Excuse my dust.”
– Epitaph of Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
(via libraryland)
