December 2011
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Cynicism
73r0:
Cynicism is todays prevailing mode of ideology - Zizek
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Bacteria 1, F.D.A. 0 →
Via: NY Times December 27, 2011
By MARK BITTMAN
Scary
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saudade
toniiu:
The famous saudade of the Portuguese is a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the past or towards the future; not an active discontent or poignant sadness but an indolent dreaming wistfulness.
—In Portugal of 1912, A. F. G. Bell
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THE GUN by C.J. Chivers: War & Responsibility:... →
cjchivers:
Who should worry about a 500-pound dud? Etienne de Malglaive, the photographer whose work in Libya was described here earlier this week in relation to his find of unexploded NATO ordnance in Zawiyah, dug through his digital archive and sent along another photograph of the item in question….
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“There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before;...”
– Philip K. Dick, Radio Free Albemuth (via liquidnight)
I have walked down this alley.
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soundfall:
Stina Nordenstam - People Are Strange...
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“I have long believed we do not influence the course of events by persuading...”
– Milton Friedman
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New Yorker Review of tgwtdt →
Excellent review of David Finchers new film. Full of pithy nuggets.
DRAGON TATTOO”: FAST COMPANY
Posted by Richard Brody
Most novels, regardless of genre, contain so many incidents that an attempt to reproduce all of them dramatically in a movie would result in a mini-series. The adaptation of a novel requires, for the most part, elimination, distillation, condensation, whereas...
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