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I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of. Interview with Umberto Eco (The Art of Fiction, No. 197). (via the-library-and-step-on-it)
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I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of. Interview with Umberto Eco (The Art of Fiction, No. 197). (via the-library-and-step-on-it)
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hcknloopr: I. NEED. THIS.
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hcknloopr: I. NEED. THIS.
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The Board of Regents has no idea what they are doing. Ever
lolmythesis: History, The University of Texas at Austin hook ‘em
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The Board of Regents has no idea what they are doing. Ever
lolmythesis: History, The University of Texas at Austin hook ‘em
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Sewing Dissent
thenewinquiry: At the tender age of 28 I learned how to sew, thanks to the impulse-purchase of a pale pink Singer 401A Slant-O-Matic sewing machine off Craigslist. It was the very picture of Eisenhower-era stolidity, boasting six cams and a buttonholer. Service it regularly, the former owner assured me, and it would work ‘til doomsday.…
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Sewing Dissent
thenewinquiry: At the tender age of 28 I learned how to sew, thanks to the impulse-purchase of a pale pink Singer 401A Slant-O-Matic sewing machine off Craigslist. It was the very picture of Eisenhower-era stolidity, boasting six cams and a buttonholer. Service it regularly, the former owner assured me, and it would work ‘til doomsday.…
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The goal of wholesale surveillance, as Arendt wrote in “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” is not, in the end, to discover crimes, “but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population.” And because Americans’ emails, phone conversations, Web searches and geographical movements are recorded and stored in perpetuity…
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The goal of wholesale surveillance, as Arendt wrote in “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” is not, in the end, to discover crimes, “but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population.” And because Americans’ emails, phone conversations, Web searches and geographical movements are recorded and stored in perpetuity…