Sunday, 12 June 2011
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Friday, 10 June 2011
Dying For America
Another
Futile
Gesture
Highlighting
Australia's
Neurotic
Incurable
Subservience
To
American
Needs
Futile
Gesture
Highlighting
Australia's
Neurotic
Incurable
Subservience
To
American
Needs
Labels:
Michæl Leunig
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Funny Games
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its disempowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent question instead of false answers; for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness; for provocation of dialogue instead of consumption of consensus.
— Michæl Haneke
Labels:
Cinema
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Economic Growth & Adam Smith's 'Invisible Hand'
Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit — in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in the commons brings ruin to all.
— Garrett Hardin 'The Tragedy Of The Commons'
Labels:
Social Insects
One Foot In The Grave
The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. … This inevitableness of destiny can only be illustrated in terms of human life by incidents which in fact involve unhappiness. For it is only by them that the futility of escape can be made evident in the drama.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Labels:
Alfred North Whitehead,
Philosophy
Conspiracy Theory
Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
— Robert Heinlein
— Robert Heinlein
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Numb And Number
Thus the erectile organ comes to symbolize the place of jouissance [ecstasy], not in itself, or even in the form of an image, but as a part lacking in the desired image: that is why it is equivalent to the
of the signification produced above, of the jouissance that it restores by the coefficient of its statement to the function of lack of signifier (-1).

— Jacques Lacan
Administration
They need activity. It is their substitute for achievement.
— Sir Humphrey Appleby
Labels:
Yes Minister
Monday, 6 June 2011
Sunday, 5 June 2011
Saturday, 4 June 2011
Friday, 3 June 2011
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Co-operation And Retaliation
Tit for tat is a highly effective strategy in game theory for the iterated prisoner's dilemma. It was first introduced by Anatol Rapoport in Robert Axelrod's two tournaments, held around 1980. An agent using this strategy will initially cooperate, then respond in kind to an opponent's previous action. Unless provoked, the agent will always cooperate. If provoked, the agent will retaliate. Some game theorists informally believe the strategy to be optimal, although no proof is presented.
A Fool
What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself whenever I am in their company.
— Casanova
Labels:
Social Insects
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
highschool.com (was university.org)
In the beginning was the Plan, and then the Program; And the Plan was without form, and the Program was void;
And Darkness was upon the faces of the professors;
And they spake unto the Associate Dean, saying "It is a Crock of Shit, and it stinks";
And the Associate Dean went unto the Dean, and he spake unto him saying, "It is a Crock of Fæces, and none may abide the Odour thereof;
And the Dean went unto the Vice President, and he spake unto him saying, "It is a Container of Excrement, and it is very strong, such that none may abide before it;
And the Vice President went unto the President, and he spake unto him saying, "It is a Vessel of Fertiliser, and none may abide its strength;
And the President went unto the Vice Chancellor, and he spake unto him saying, "It containeth that which aids Plant Growth, and it is very strong;
And the Vice Chancellor went unto the Chancellor, and he spake unto him saying, "It promoteth growth, and it is very powerful;
And the Chancellor went unto the Board of Regents, and he spake unto them saying, "This potent and vigorous Plan will promote the Growth of the University;
And the Board looked upon the Plan, and saw that it was good, and ordered its Implementation forthwith.
Labels:
Homo defæcans
Monday, 30 May 2011
The Other Man's Grass
The famed sociologist Max Weber was once criticised by a fellow academic for writing outside his field.
"I'm not a donkey," Weber retorted, "and I don't have a field."
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