June 2003
The Archives
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Dear underpants gnomes,
06.30.03 | Permalink | 3 CommentsTo the underpants gnomes who took my Randolph Bourne reader, Please give it back. Sincerely, chutney
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So is it important to think?
06.27.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on So is it important to think?Arete provides a helpful Foucault quote on the relationship between social critique and social transformation. And so I offer this Foucault quote, drawn from his lecture notes, with perhaps a nod to Aristotle: Thought is the form of action.
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On the way back from Mt. Sinai
06.27.03 | Permalink | 5 CommentsThe Happy Tutor asks, “In the name of what does one speak against the golden calf?” From the burning bush, Moses’s god sent him to lead a liberation armed with a name: Yhwh. One translation of Yhwh is “I am who I am,” which translated yet again turns out to mean, “Shut up. My name […]
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Our Fuehrer, Who Art in Heaven: Part 2
(Meet Your New Big Brother – Jesus Christ)06.26.03 | Permalink | 6 CommentsKilling the Buddha editor Jeffrey Sharlet ends the second section of his Harper’s article recounting his immersion experience in the Family with this whopper: The brothers of Ivanwald are the Family’s next generation, its high priests in training. I had been recommended for membership by a banker acquaintance, a recent Ivanwald alumnus, who had mistake […]
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Integrals, anyone?
06.26.03 | Permalink | 6 CommentsPopular scientist Richard Dawkins proposes we start using the word “brights” to refer to atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, and humanists. Mostly they are naturalists as opposed to supernaturalists. (With emphasis especially on “as opposed to.”) Dawkins and his fellow “brights” hope to use the word in the same way that the homosexual community used “gay” as […]
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That one there had a little bite to it…
06.24.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on That one there had a little bite to it…I am proud proud proud of my heritage. But who can blame me?
