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PROJECT FANTASY – Is it Easier to Break a Heart or Destroy a Mind: this is what “democracy” looks like?

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Proverbs for Paranoids… Once they are inside your head, you will NEVER get them out. 1. You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures. A person, once a close friend, then an employer, then simply a participant in the dance… physical comedy of the blunt, crude and basic variety… [...]

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Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace + etc.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

“I’m an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.” – A beautifully recursive DFW, looping at his most lovably convoluted (When we read him we got lost in those convolutions, spread them out and wrapped ourselves up inside of them, we convolved ourselves, kernel-like, across their soft surfaces. [...]

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Sweater of the Day: one size fits most (see tag fine print under “STOP”)… What’s really real?!?

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Straight from out of the closet of twitter-art phenom Bexx Bissell… The shiz-knit… that is a woolen juggernaut… that dares you to come up with any, and I mean, ANY hermeneutical analysis that coheres… make way for the atheo-syndicalist agit-prop graphic havoc of Bexx, whose illustrations and high/low-brow crowd sourced art are coming to an [...]

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Bateson: The Cybernetics of Self

Friday, April 27, 2012

A systems / information theoretic evaluation of AA’s “first three steps”… required reading for anyone interested in the underpinnings of addiction and of G. Bateson’s path-breaking work with schizophrenics at the Palo Alto VA. (Just google the title for a free PDF version… peep the abstract below) The cybernetics of “self”: A theory of alcoholism. [...]

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Yes we really just watch Authors@Google on Friday nights… we love Christopher Hitchens

Saturday, March 17, 2012

The late great Christopher Hitchens discusses his book “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything” Surveillance, Power, Control, a Panoptic god… Hitchens brings it like no other. One third of the holy trinity of the recent atheist publishing boom (alongside fellow big-thinkers / public intellectuals Dawkins and Dennett)

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