The following is based on Bruce Fink's book "Against Understanding, Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key" Fink is a practicing psychoanalyst and ...
Yes, I saw the 'My Beautiful Launderette' I don't remember the details very well, but I do recall that I liked it. Daniel Day Lewis was great as a pun...
https://41.media.tumblr.com/195689d357d04ad6142eea77d2415289/tumblr_o3yq5xQ7mt1rkbhqwo1_1280.jpg Based on the 7 Mile Bridge on Florida Keys, my latest...
Well if we are in the late stages of capitalism, then consumption is/becomes the main social value No politician means what it says on the stump, the ...
I like the idea that we will find new possibilities, new ways of proceeding; ways that we have yet to see, or that we can't see because of our own/soc...
This appeared in the March 3, 2016 Daily Mail Hollande aims to keep Britian from leaving the EU Hollande communicates that if Brexit, Hollande's EU wi...
Re: 'Go' match in Seoul, South Korea, the following from Wired article yesterday: The phrase "It's not a human move" hit me. How many potential non-hu...
I like Bernie, we both were born in Brooklyn, NYC, NY and we tend to have similar vocal inflection. Here is piece about Bernie's tawk, https://youtu.b...
Interesting topic. My first thoughts. There are two types of hero: 1) Those that seek it, which I think may be, at least in part, about legacy. (Chris...
It presents the Republicans with a challenge. They are caught between a rock (whomever Obama nominates as Scalia's replacement) and a hard place ( tie...
The only rational assertions about art or love or faith that are appropriate are those that occur within the narratives that these experiences generat...
Doesn't the implication of "what we assert about what is the case, or what is real" not apply to love. How does love, (or art) come under "the rubric ...
Reason is tyrannical, it dominates our life because it is pragmatic, useful for obtaining what we desire, but I don't think it can encompass all that ...
'Twisted Road' off Neil's Psychedelic Pill album. ('Let the Good Times Roll') First time I heard 'Like A Rolling Stone' I felt that magic and took it ...
I agree with Mikhail Bakhtin: In the realm of culture outsideness is the most powerful to understanding. It is only in the eyes of another culture tha...
That's a good question...I mean they don't sound quite right, do they ( too enthusiastic, optimistic or something like that), very well informed and e...
I think any narrative ought to be internally coherent within the bounds of that discourse. So yes, reasonable but reasonable only within sets of belie...
Clifford Geertz defined religion as: Of these, only (3) appears to be metaphysical, in the sense of this thread. Very few philosophers, I am aware of,...
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2016/01/2016-january-morning-planets-venus-saturn-mars-spica-jupiter-300x300.jpg 1-20-16 all 5 will be lined up (I think) s...
I just reread a fascinating article by Michael Klare a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author, most recentl...
MOS: Wow! talk about a leap of faith! The glass stiletto church will have over 100 female features including: Chairs for lovers, biscuits and cakes, a...
http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/High-heel-church.jpg In Taiwan, there is a church. It is 55 feet tall, 36 feet wide, made of 320 p...
I wonder what ethical or other argument can hold our actions responsible to future generations. Do we have a duty to the unborn, and if so, is there a...
While convalescing from cancer in 1941 he advertised for a pretty nurse. Monique Bourgeois got the job. http://whatculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2011...
The icon isn't about the painter, it is about the one painted being true. Otherwise how could Matisse, a staunch atheist, have designed Chapelle du Ro...
Here is what I think is an even handed assessment of China's economic bump by Chris Giles, the Financial Times economic editor dated 1/7/2016. https:/...
We and other animals share the ability to understand ' sameness and difference', an essential survival skill for both of us. Our understanding of what...
Mongrel Hi Mongrel: You're putting a value claim on existence. If what is, is actuality and actuality is truth then existence is truth, but I think ex...
Note that you say Pleasure seems to be always accompanied by something...that which one is taking pleasure in, desire is a lack of something. The plea...
Kale can be delicious if you choose the right variety and you choose the right recipe. I like it in a salad, with oil oil, garlic, Parmesan cheese and...
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