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by bshepard 8y ago
There is a way to find great pleasure in Joyce, it does require effort and education, but so do many other pleasures. Terence McKenna's "Surfing Finnegan's Wake" is a good way in, especially if you enjoy McKenna's w
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by bshepard 8y ago
There seems to be an important difference between everyday "Grammar nazism" and an effort to generate an accurate proof copy of a -- maybe THE - defining English language modernist novel.....Textual criticism, in general, is very
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Post-"representational" Painting is also strangely like this as well, even, strangely enough, with a certain time pressure: the first mark/stroke will, most of the time, be be better than the marks that come after that, and a
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by bshepard 8y ago
ww2 was more like that than you think. Check out Nicholson Baker's "HUMAN SMOKE"
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Have the armed forces of the United States subjected the civilian population to inhuman treatment prohibited by international law? Yes (unanimously). Is the United States Government guilty of genocide against the people of Vietnam? Yes (una
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by bshepard 8y ago
The parts in Guy Robinson's "Philosophy and Mystifications" about Aristotle still resonate with me in one way or another a few years after reading it. The book is happily available online: http://www.spiritual-mind
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by bshepard 8y ago
I shared this mostly because of the Gibson quote enclosed, and if you don't want to read the article, here's the quote, which involves a coolhunter who can viscerally sense cool and uncool evaluating Tommy Hillfinger: "This s
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The Growing Emptiness of the “Star Wars” Universe(newyorker.com)
87 points by bshepard 8y ago|102 comments
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by bshepard 8y ago
Do markets for art work in the same way as markets for talent in film? To what extent does success in mass media illustration correspond to success in selling singular art objects?
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by bshepard 8y ago
If anyone is learning German & Chinese at the same time, this is a very helpful site: http://www.tao-te-king.org/
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by bshepard 8y ago
"The Morellian method is based on clues offered by trifling details rather than identities of composition and subject matter or other broad treatments that are more likely to be seized upon by students, copyists and imitators. Instead,
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by bshepard 8y ago
This is from the section of Edward Said's "Culture and Imperialism and Jane Austen, and feels, in some sense, like a helpful clue about the value of Austen's work to recent US legal culture. "As in Austen's other n
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by bshepard 8y ago
Do you think the same argument, if applied more generally, would lead towards the exclusion of all foreign tech companies from all nations? Thinking here of the deep ties between Google, Amazon, Facebook, PayPal and the US military-industri
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That's one perspective. Another (perhaps broader) perspective is that there's been a generations long civil war throughout South and Central America between elites and oppressed populations, and throughout this conflict, the US st
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by bshepard 8y ago
Some needed contextualization here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_U...
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By transferring government resources from the perpetuation of force (military industrial complex/prison archipelago) towards the social expenses mentioned above. This would involve a diminution of force, and an increase in cooperative
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by bshepard 8y ago
Whether or not things eventually rely on force seems like more of a metaphysical question than a political one; the resources spent on the perpetuation of the military-industrial complex could have been (could still be) diverted towards rai
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by bshepard 8y ago
I found this paragraph especially thought-provoking: "Americans are inclined to talk about the "war against drugs," or the "war against poverty," or the "war against cancer," without questioning whether &q
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by bshepard 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Tribunal
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Yes, that's really true. Not sure what you're writing with, but writing cards in ink and brush is really pleasurable and poses constant design challenges.
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by bshepard 9y ago
Have any HNers found an effective digital version of index cards? The author mentions a" years of trying all kinds of digital equivalents a much-loved Mac outliner programme called 3×5" but then returns to return to physical cards
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by bshepard 9y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but respectfully propose that the office con is part of a larger and even more brazen : commodifying all of reality. Besides all of the relatively well-known ethical and psychological problems with selling and bu
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I don't think it's a justification, it's a contextualization.
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The United States was founded in order to protect slavery. The "enlightenment" stuff was PR. Check out Gerald Horne's Counterrevolution of 1776.
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No way, those baby corns are "objectively" a culinary nightmare.
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by bshepard 9y ago
As a previously commentator mentioned, "colonized" is a much more fitting word than "discovery." The deeper problem, I think, with "discovery" is that it obscures the violence of the European settlement process
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by bshepard 9y ago
It seems that many people do care about celebrities, and that if you want to understand the world, understanding celebrity's function is part of that. A useful place to start thinking about why celebrity matters is Max Weber's con
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by bshepard 9y ago
A helpful book in understanding the real Winston Churchill is Nicholson Baker's "Human Smoke"
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For reference, Superdeluxe remix of Jim Bakker selling buckets of food: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnaSvvSqY-8
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This passage points towards what (I experienced) as profound about the novel: "Our entire pattern of socio-sexual interaction is nonexistent here.They cannot play the game. They do not see one another as men or women. This is almost im

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