‘Tis the Season To Be Jolly (Cogburn Edition)

While you were stuffing yourself with turkey and listening to your creepy uncle’s war stories, Jon Cogburn was expecting (and then having) a baby girl (well, actually his wife was, at least that’s how it usually goes). Since Jon’s an old friend of the blog, I’d like to suspend all sarcasms for just a minute [...]

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More Draconian Security Measures from TSA

Nothing like closing the barn door after the horse escapes!  TSA has decided to implement some security measures in response to the failed terrorist attack on Christmas day. Here’s an excerpt from the US DHS security directive that TSA has already begun to enforce on international flights: 2. IN FLIGHT 1. During flight, the aircraft [...]

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Corporate University Is Now

Reading Wannabe U and slowly growing more and more depressed. Here’s a quote from David Harvey’s recent essay that describes my present state of mind: The current populations of academicians, intellectuals and experts in the social sciences and humanities are by and large ill-equipped to undertake the collective task of revolutionizing our knowledge structures. They [...]

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Random Luther Quote: On Eloquent Nonsense

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Rethinking Marx and Religion (by Alberto Toscano)

An interesting piece by Toscano on Marx and religion: In the contemporary study of religion as a factor of social change and political mobilisation, Marx is treated as a marginal reference at best, a ‘dead dog’ at worst. The global impasse, or even reversal, of a secularisation process that Marx appears to take for granted; [...]

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Up In The Air And About To Hit The Fan.

Went to see Up in the Air, have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it’s perfectly boring “romantic comedy” turned into a predicable “life’s better with a co-pilot” moral lesson. On the other hand, it’s trying to do something, even if it ultimately fails at it. The subject matter itself is rather banal/stupid, [...]

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Catherine Malabou in Le Monde

A piece on Catherine Malabou in Le monde (12/17/2009): Catherine Malabou n’a manifestement pas le goût des territoires et des routines. En retrouvant la philosophe dans un café bondé et quelque peu bruyant du 1er arrondissement de Paris, on comprend aussitôt qu’elle préfère les espaces ouverts à la quiétude du logis, et la foule au [...]

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Amazing Nietzsche Source

In case you haven’t seen it yet (I haven’t), here’s an amazing Nietzsche source: all digital published and unpublished works (auf Deutsch) and digitized manuscripts (that you can download as high-quality jpegs – click to enlarge the photo below):

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Феноменология духа

Русский перевод Г. Шпета – PDF. Рождественский подарок!

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Narcissistic Self-Googling: Now With Science!

This paper investigates self–Googling through the monitoring of search engine activities of users and adds to the few quantitative studies on this topic already in existence. We explore this phenomenon by answering the following questions: To what extent is the self–Googlingvisible in the usage of search engines; is any significant difference measurable between queries related to self–Googling and [...]

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