Reading this out loud is surprisingly difficult, even for a native English speaker like myself. Of course, there are reasons why the language’s spelling and pronunciations can be completely arbitrary: many of the words have been inherited from other languages, with in turn their own messy rules on how to write and speak. I know …
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A Thousand Plateaus is a book about the link between capitalism and “schizoanalysis,” better known as nomadology: the tendency to cherry-pick and endorse certain ideas from political ideologies while leaving the rest behind. Part of Deleuze’s argument is that capitalism, and thus society at large, continues to exist in part because of our willingness to …
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This is a photo from 1913 of the painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581 by Ilya Repin, after a modernist critic slashed at the canvas with a knife as protest for its artistic style. Although the painting was fully restored, and this was neither the vision of the artist …
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Generating iDeas®.
“While most people believe that there can be an end to arguments based on the belief of objective reality , my essay will apply to Fish’s concept of a world where what we believe to be fact is based on our fallible perceptions, to show that people will always find themselves in argument in every single …
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A death poem found in David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, which I read for a Problem of God class. This poem is recited by one of the characters as evidence for his case that there is no justice or mercy in the universe: death stands triumphant over the suffering masses, yet refuses to deliver …
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I took a screenshot of this quote, which was from an article about conspiracy groups and how they function. The context for this in particular was a section in which the author wrote about how any conspiracy relies on linking disparate events together, to further suit the larger conspiratorial narrative. People instinctively try to find …
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“Put an end once for all to this discussion of what a good man should be, and be one.”–Meditations, Marcus Aurelius This quote resonates with me, since it implies that we already know how to be a good person. It implies that good comes naturally, automatically, and that the only thing stopping us from living …
