Thursday 29 March 2012

Wednesday 28 March 2012

Mediated Aristocracy

Acting: the art of insincerity.

Scent Marking

When poor young people do it to property, it is called tagging.
When rich corporations do it to people, it is called branding.

Saturday 24 March 2012

Fits

Almost Prime

The Alignment Of Conservative Ideology & Hostility To Science

Throughout this long deveopment, from 600 BC to the present day, philosophers have been divided into those who wished to tighten social bonds and those who wished to relax them. With this difference, others have been associated. The disciplinarians have advocated some system of dogma, either old or new, and have therefore been compelled to be, in greater or lesser degree, hostile to science, since their dogmas could not be proved empirically. They have almost invariably taught that happiness is not the good, but that ‘nobility’ or ‘heroism’ is to be preferred. They have had a sympathy with irrational parts of human nature, since they have felt reason to be inimical to social cohesion.
 — Bertrand Russell

Two Forms Of Primitivism


Thursday 22 March 2012

The Postmodern Theorist

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
 — Katharine Graham

Tuesday 20 March 2012

Monday 19 March 2012

Uropæan

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
 ― Peter Ustinov

Friday 16 March 2012

Free Before The Law

Every law is an infraction of liberty.
 ― Jeremy Bentham