henry is tired of the winter, & haircuts

macky I feel like you’ll like her

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:06:11 -0400

macky I feel like you’ll like her

I have only two emotions:careful fear and dead devotion.I...

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:42:00 -0400

I have only two emotions:
careful fear and dead devotion.
I can’t get the balance right.

"And you know, I think what most bothers those who are not gay about gayness is the gay lifestyle,..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:18:00 -0400

“And you know, I think what most bothers those who are not gay about gayness is the gay lifestyle, not the sex acts themselves […] I was talking about the common fear that gays will develop relationships that are intense and satisfying even though they do not at all conform to the ideas of relationships held by others. It is the prospect that gays will create as yet unforeseen kinds of relationships that many people cannot tolerate.”

- Foucault, “Sexual Choice, Sexual Act” (interview)

All was a greyness, without direction,with no above or below, naturein a process of dissolution, in...

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:25:30 -0400

All was a greyness, without direction,
with no above or below, nature
in a process of dissolution, in a state
of pure dementia.

-Sebald, After Nature

foucaultthehaters: My life. My philosophy.

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:03:36 -0400

foucaultthehaters:

My life. My philosophy.

The panic-stricken kink in the neck to be seenin all of Grunewald’s subjects,exposing the...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:30:00 -0400

The panic-stricken kink in the neck to be seen
in all of Grunewald’s subjects,
exposing the throat and often turning
the face towards a blinding light,
is the extreme response of our bodies
to the absence of balance in nature
which blindly makes one experiment after another
and like a senseless botcher
undoes the thing it has only just achieved.

-Sebald, After Nature

"I dream of the intellectual destroyer of evidence and universalities, the one who, in the inertias..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:02:33 -0400

“I dream of the intellectual destroyer of evidence and universalities, the one who, in the inertias and constraints of the present, locates and marks the weak points, the openings, the lines of power, who incessantly displaces himself, doesn’t know exactly where he is heading or what he’ll think tomorrow because he is too attentive to the present; who, in passing, contributes the raising of the question of knowing whether the revolution is worth it, and what kind (I mean what kind of revolution and what effort), it being understood that they alone who are willing to risk their lives to bring it about can answer the question.”

- Foucault, “End of the Monarchy of Sex” (interview)

"To want not to think in terms of good and evil is to want not to think in terms of this good and..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:00:25 -0400

“To want not to think in terms of good and evil is to want not to think in terms of this good and that evil, in their current meaning. I think it is important to shift the boundaries, to make them indefinite, shake them up, make them fragile, to allow for crossovers and osmosis. It isn’t possible not to think in terms of good and evil, true and false. But you have to say every time: and if it were the opposite, what if the lines were elsewhere…”

- Foucault, talk show interview

For it is hard to discoverthe winged vertebrates of prehistoryembedded in tablets of slate.But if I...

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:00:08 -0400

For it is hard to discover
the winged vertebrates of prehistory
embedded in tablets of slate.
But if I see before me
the nervature of past life
in one image, I always think
that this has something to do
with truth. Our brains, after all,
are always at work on some quivers
of self-organisation, however faint,
and it is from this that an order
arises, in places beautiful
and comforting, though more cruel, too,
than the previous state of ignorance.
How far, in any case, must one go back
to find the beginning?

-Sebald, After Nature

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SORRY FOR ALL THE FOUCAULT

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:15:00 -0400

not sorry

"There is in Nietzsche’s work a rustic simplicity, an outsideness, a kind of mountain peasantness..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:12:41 -0400

“There is in Nietzsche’s work a rustic simplicity, an outsideness, a kind of mountain peasantness that allows him, with a shrug of the shoulder and without appearing in any way ridiculous, to say with unavoidable force: ‘What nonsense all that is!’ To rid oneself of philosophy necessarily implies such an offhandedness. It’s not by remaining in philosophy, it’s not by refining it to the maximum, it’s not by turning it against itself that one exits from it. No. It’s by opposing it with a kind of astonished and joyful stupidity, a sort of incomprehensible burst of laughter that in the end understands, or in any case, breaks. Yes…it breaks more than it understands.”

- Foucault, “On Literature” (interview)

safercampus: Rape predates mini-skirts.

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:40:31 -0400

safercampus:

Rape predates mini-skirts.

Q: You’re always working at the boundary of the serious and the unserious. And sometimes...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:52:00 -0400

Q: You’re always working at the boundary of the serious and the unserious. And sometimes it’s hard to follow you.

MF: It makes me a little sad when I’m told that. All I want is that when someone does me the honour, the favour, gives me the pleasure of reading me, that they first of all understand exactly what I’m saying. Ultimately, I’d rather say less than not be accessible. And I would like people to enjoy reading me. I’m often told, ‘Your writing is too refined, too complicated and baroque.’ I don’t deny that this is intentional. I would like to write in such a way that people feel a kind of physical pleasure in reading me.

-Foucault, talk show interview

"The degree simply serves to create a kind of market value for knowledge, to make those who..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:45:04 -0400

“The degree simply serves to create a kind of market value for knowledge, to make those who don’t have degrees feel they have no right to knowledge, are not capable of knowledge. Everyone who gets a degree knows perfectly well it’s useless, it has no content, it’s empty. But those who don’t have degrees are the ones who set great store by them. Degrees are precisely for those that don’t have them.”

- Foucault, talk show interview

"We need to know why our society considers it so important to show that learning is something sad;..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:41:03 -0400

“We need to know why our society considers it so important to show that learning is something sad; maybe it’s because of the number of people who are excluded from it. Imagine what it would be like if people were crazy about learning the way they are about sex. They would knock each other over in a rush to get into school. It would be a complete social disaster! However, if you want to keep the number of people with access to learning at a minimum, then you have to present it as this perfectly disagreeable thing and induce people to learn solely by means of such social perks as the ability to compete and high-paying jobs at the finish line.”

- Foucault, talk show interview

"What I do is a kind of historical fiction. In a sense I know very well that what I say is not..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:32:00 -0400

“What I do is a kind of historical fiction. In a sense I know very well that what I say is not true… What I am trying to do is provoke an interference between our reality and the knowledge of our past history. If I succeed, this will have real effects in our present history. My hope is my books become true after they have been written—not before.”

- Foucault, “Truth is in the Future”