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Мама

Каждое утро, в течение первых двух-трех дней после маминой смерти, просыпаясь утром, и, несколько раз среди дня, я отчетливо, как высеченную в собственном мозгу, видел такую сцену. В парке, среди...

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Demonic Gloom

There is a wonderful word in the Russian language that describes an especially outrageous sort of religious practices, targeted specifically at anything secular, usually in a violent manner:...

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Кураев

Андрей Кураев в интревью Дождю: “Территория Православной церкови – это терриотрия антропологической катастрофы”. Просто красиво сказал.

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Подсознание, язык…

Когда заходит речь о языковых обобщениях и выведениях языка на более высокую ступень, типа быковского: для того чтобы изменить человека надо изменить его лексику, или в этой передаче: человек, лучше...

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History Lesson?

Heidegger said in his Nietzsche lectures (1936-1940) Hölderlin und Nietzsche haben... ein Frageziechen vor der Aufgabe der Deutschen aufgerichtet, geschichtlich ihr Wesen zu finden. Werden wir dieses...

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Coolest Visualization Ever

Coolest Visualization Ever John Snow’s investigation of Broad Street cholera outbreak was a stroke of genius. He used this map to clearly show that cholera is spread through contaminated drinking water.

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Seattle. The Fantasmatic and the Real.

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Goal of Psychoanalysis

Freud often insists that we should not mistake the latent thoughts that the analysis unearths under the manifest content for the unconscious desire itself, in persona-those latent thoughts pertain to...

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A la guerre….

A brilliant end of the chapter L’infini in Le siècle of Alain Badiou! Speaking about the war of the century, a war for “the univocation of the Real, against the equivocations of the imaginary”. An idea...

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Gays, Zionism, Liberals

A reader’s review of Precarious Life by Judith Butler’s on Amazon: I have admired and enjoyed earlier works by Judith Butler, but this one came at, for her and this book, a most unpropitious moment in...

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Way to make the English language really hop.

  Throughout their life, so calm, so peaceful, Sweet old tradition was preserved: For them, in Butterweek the greaseful, Russian pancakes were always served; Two times a year they’d make their fast,...

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Ethics, Life, Kant, Sade

Stumbled across this Juvenal quote in the introduction to Zupančič’s Ethics of the Real: Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas. [(you should) Hold it top...

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” Žižek proceeds to connect this to a certain Lacanian version of the death drive…: insofar as the denaturalization of nature brought about by the sociocultural overwriting of vital being involves the...

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La marque du sacré

J’ai l’intime conviction que notre monde va droit à la catastrophe. Le chemin sur lequel s’avance l’humanité est suicidaire Je parle de la catastrophe au singulier, non pour désigner un événement...

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Emotional Life in a Neurobiological Age: On Wonder

http://www.cornell.edu/video/emotional-life-in-a-neurobiological-age-on-wonder Catherine Malabou discusses the connection between the biological and the symbolic: the brain and the mind.

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Гениально

Время наше будет знаменито, Тем что сотворило пользы ради, Новый вариант гермафродита: Плотью мужики, а духом – бляди! (Губерман)

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Coolest Visualization Ever

Coolest Visualization Ever John Snow’s investigation of Broad Street cholera outbreak was a stroke of genius. He used this map to clearly show that cholera is spread through contaminated drinking water.

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Bulbul

This is pronounced “boolbool” according to Webster http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bulbul. A lookup of the word соловей (nightingale) in the dictionary by a linguist acquaintance yielded this...

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Глупость, Аристотель…

Даже самые светлые в мире умы Не смогли разогнать окружающей тьмы, Рассказали нам несколько сказочек на ночь, И отправились мудрые спать, как и мы. Прислали мне ссылку , и я там увидел первый же...

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Printed Guns and Hegel

Looking at some reactions to printed guns – they are all of knee-jerk type at this point. Some people are scared, some are not. Those who are not bring up many reasons: the technology is woefully...

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