Modern and Post-Modern

"Tea Party anger is, at bottom, metaphysical, not political: what has been undone by the economic crisis is the belief that each individual is metaphysically self-sufficient, that one’s very standing and being as a rational agent owes nothing to other individuals or institutions. The opposing metaphysical claim, the one I take to be true, is that the very idea of the autonomous subject is an institution, an artifact created by the practices of modern life: the intimate family, the market economy, the liberal state. Each of these social arrangements articulate and express the value and the authority of the individual; they give to the individual a standing she would not have without them."

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/the-very-angry-tea-party/

Sleeping with a dancer in her dreams

She dances with me;
Her eyes closed. Muscles taut
In bundles across my back and thigh. Dancing with her, in her dream.
Arm calf calf ab arm thigh, you sway me to my sleep.



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The rich get richer...

because the poor pay more.


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place.com

I found it at some place.com the other day.



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After denzil's show

If you reach a place in your life where you're happy, it's as much to do with your failures as it is with your successes.


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Right.

Contrary to popular belief, I like getting it right more than i like being right about it.

Where I have a problem is figuring out when those aren't the same thing.


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Magic 8-ball

Network that agrees to get feeds of yes/no questions that flash out and expire quickly. Results are tallied and returned to questioner and also to subscribers if they want. You could subscribe to people or questions.

You can dip into the feed and ask, tell or leech.

What would happen in a world with that tool. Marketing? Gambling. Communicating.


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About on the Road

The Beat says, break the law, all the laws. But this is violence, not subversion. It is the child, not the opponent, of the system.

The subversive breaks the system and changes the laws.


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Commercailization of the rebel

The more mainstreaming of devience the more extreme the rhetoric used on the truly devient to mark the distinction between devient, and devient chic.


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Devient paradox

If the institution of the media exists to maintain the status quo by chastising devience, how does that work against a cult of devience culture? Comercialized, cookie-cutter, flair devience, but superficially identical.


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