January 2013
1 post
6 tags
“Theory does not derive its legitimacy from established facts, but from future...”
– Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
February 2012
2 posts
1 tag
“Shut your eyes and see.”
– James Joyce, Ulysses
10 tags
“Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so...”
– Sogyal Rinpoche (via observedintoexistence)
January 2012
1 post
“The universe does not owe you a sense of hope”
– Richard Dawkins (via irrelevantirrelevances)
November 2011
2 posts
7 tags
“I’m a boring speaker and I like it that way… I doubt that people are...”
– Noam Chomsky
8 tags
“Nobody takes democracy or justice seriously, we are all aware that they are...”
– Slavoj Zizek, Berlusconi in Tehran (2009)
September 2011
1 post
5 tags
“Totalizing visions, attractive though they may be, can never capture all the...”
– Ed Soja, Postmodern Geographies (1989, pp. 247-248)
August 2011
15 posts
9 tags
“Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in...”
– Ray Bradbury, 91 years old today.
9 tags
“What is the point of our celebrated freedom of choice when the only choice is...”
– Slavoj Žižek, Shoplifters of the World, Unite!
20 tags
“The most probable scenario of communication here is that Minitel users gravitate...”
– Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena (Verso, 1993, p. 54). Replace “Minitel” (early French WWW) with the dominant media today. ALL CAPS emphasis my own.
11 tags
“Arab Spring will become the Global Decade and then the Universal Forever.”
– Self
5 tags
“Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the...”
– Marshall McLuhan
7 tags
“If you take away hate’s natural predators, it destroys itself.”
– Jean Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art(Semiotext(e), Ames Hodges translation, 2005, p. 150).
7 tags
“Power does not interest me, and I will not take it.”
– Fidel Castro, 1959.
4 tags
“Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the...”
– Marshall McLuhan, 1976
8 tags
“The whole of reality, it’s just it, it’s stupid. It is out there. I...”
– Slavoj Žižek, in the Atra Taylor documentary film, Žižek!.
6 tags
“It is really America that has electrocuted itself.”
– Jean Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art (Semiotext(e), Ames Hodges translation, 2005, p. 209).
10 tags
“Museums are inventions of men, not inevitable, eternal, ideal, nor divine. They...”
– Adele Z. Silver (Cleveland Museum of Art), The Art Museum as Educator: A Collection of Studies as Guides to Practice and Policy (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978, p. 13)
9 tags
“We are no more committed to one culture … any more than to one book or to...”
– Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962 / 2010 University of Toronto edition, p. 31)
13 tags
“The debt no longer has any meaning but to unite all civilized beings to a same...”
– Jean Baudrillard, Global Debt and Parallel Universe.
9 tags
“The Olympics, whatever their origin, are a waste of money, a corporatist sham,...”
– Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing.net
16 tags
“Part of the problem is that today’s youth have been shown that...”
– Sagrav, blog commenter.
July 2011
22 posts
9 tags
“We can only fight reactionary racism by making dirty jokes directed against...”
– Slavoj Žižek, Rassismus bekaempfen mit Zizek
9 tags
“Images are the true reality today. We cannot simply say ‘discard the...”
– Slavoj Žižek, circa 2010, presentation on backlight.
8 tags
“So why not use the earth as the map itself?”
– Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964 / 1994 MIT Press edition, p. 51)
7 tags
“Plato, in all his striving to imagine an ideal training school, failed to notice...”
– Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964 / 1994 MIT Press edition, p. 49)
11 tags
“When war and market merge, all money transactions begin to drip blood.”
– Marshall McLuhan, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972, p. 211)
9 tags
“Isn’t the human species a carrier of countless germs and shouldn’t...”
– Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power (Semiotext(e), original 2005 / translated 2010, p. 99)
17 tags
“Is it international terrorism that takes the shape of a natural disaster or is...”
– Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power (Semiotext(e), original 2005 / translated 2010, p. 100)
13 tags
“Security is quietly taking hold as a ‘white terror’ draining the...”
– Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power (Semiotext(e), original 2005 / translated 2010, p. 97)
7 tags
“We might be said already to be in an abstract, disembodied state where things...”
– Jean Baudrillard, Passwords (Verso, 2003, Chris Turner translation, p. 61).
9 tags
“All current political events, including the most violent ones, are made up of...”
– Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power (Semiotext(e), original 2005 / translated 2010, p. 89)
6 tags
“The only choice left is between disappearing or being humanengineerized.”
– Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power (Semiotext(e), original 2005 / translated 2010, p. 83)
16 tags
“Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness. “Time” has ceased,...”
– Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage (Gingko Press, original 1967 / renewed 1996, p. 63)
7 tags
“What if the way we perceive the problem is actually part of the problem?”
– Slavoj Žižek (2011-07-01) lecture
6 tags
“Politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s questions.”
– Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage (Gingko Press, original 1967 / renewed 1996, p. 22)
11 tags
“Revivals are in every phase of life today. Revivals of clothing, of dances, of...”
– Marshall McLuhan (1977) (Have we too much history to make more of it?)
9 tags
“To take your symbolic title … seriously is a little bit stupid, but...”
– Slavoj Žižek (2011-07-01) lecture
9 tags
“When I was younger, I wondered why the Egyptians worshipped cats. Now that I...”
– philosopherlikes, also see icanhazcheeseburger
10 tags
“In the age of information explosion, all the walls go out between age groups,...”
– Marshall McLuhan (1968) on the age of information explosion.
6 tags
“Products are increasingly becoming services.”
– Marshall McLuhan (1966) - predicting the Internet?
“Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.”
– Tobias Smollett
8 tags
“The subject doesn’t belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world.”
– Ludwig von Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922, Proposition 5.632)
13 tags
“[T]he magnitude or breadth of someone’s reputation is proportional to its...”
– Geoffrey Nunberg, “Farewell to the Information Age” (1996)
6 tags
“The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s...”
– Paul Gauguin (via artisloveisart)
June 2011
4 posts
3 tags
“Art does not need us and it never did.”
– Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)
“Remember, saying the wrong thing is acceptable if you say it the right way.”
– Unknown
4 tags
“If the term ‘taste’ has any meaning, then it commands us not to...”
– Jean Baudrillard, “Utopia Achieved: How Can Anyone Be European?” (2006)
May 2011
2 posts
7 tags
“The old jobholder secure in his niche in the organization chart, finds himself...”
– Marshall McLuhan, “The End of the Work Ethic” lecture (1972)
10 tags
“If everyone finds a publisher, he’ll then find a reader, maybe just one… Of...”
– Marshall McLuhan, letter to William Saroyan (1971) 