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slavin: sometimes often the best thing that can happen to ideas you have is that without knowing you even exist, someone else goes ahead and makes them happen. altnytterfarlig: The story of stuff: “99% of the stuff we run through the system [the system of consumption] is trashed within 6 months.” From its extraction through…
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Barthes vehemently opposes the view that authors consciously create masterpieces. He maintains that authors such as Racine and Balzac often reproduce emotional patterns about which they have no conscious knowledge. He opposes the view that authors should be interpreted in terms of what they think they’re doing. Their biographies have no more relevance to what…
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According to this reading of myth, a myth occurs only if someone is a true believer who consumes the myth innocently. This is why, for certain later writers, a postmodern ‘ironic’ reading, which recognises and plays with the constructedness of myths, is deemed subversive. It is also why ironic uses of stereotypes are sometimes differentiated…
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David Chalmers, however, argues that materialist reductionism of the Churchlands’ type throws out too much, and cannot deal with the fact that humans enjoy sunsets. Chalmers agrees with Thomas Nagel that there is something that it feels like to be a bat, or a human, but there may be nothing that it is like to…
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Lessig Blog, v2: Dear Candidate for Congress …
Lessig Blog, v2: Dear Candidate for Congress … lessig: Thanks for your call, which I am sorry I was not able to accept. But after many too many contributions to candidates for Congress, I have adopted an absolute rule: I will not consider making a contribution to your campaign for Congress unless you commit absolutely…
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Secret panel can put Americans on kill list’ | Reuters
Secret panel can put Americans on kill list’ | Reuters wilwheaton: wilwheaton: American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials. There is no public record of the operations or decisions of…
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Goldman Sachs, the global investment bank and financial services firm, announced Friday morning that it is running for president of the United States. The announcement was made at a farm near Waterloo, Iowa, by the musician Ted Nugent, who was hired to speak for the candidate. “We love oil and God and gasoline!” shouted Mr.…