May 27, 2012

Alain Badiou: a life in writing

“You discover truth in your response to the event. Truth is a construction after the event. The example of love is the clearest. It starts with an encounter that’s not calculable but afterwards you realise what it was. The same with science: you discover something unexpected – mountains on the moon, say – and afterwards there is mathematical work to give it sense. That is a process of truth because in that subjective experience there is a certain universal value. It is a truth procedure because it leads from subjective experience and chance to universal value.”

May 27, 2012 • 4 notes

The Overthinking Person's Drinking Game

May 17, 2012 • 1,501 notes
Capitalism doesn’t inspire creativity, it stifles it. There are millions of geniuses that might be doing something brilliant, but instead are putting stickers on packets of biscuits they can barely afford for 12 hours a day so some lazy prick can play golf every Sunday with all the other impotent do nothing pricks.
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May 7, 2012 • 26 notes • thenewinquiry
thenewinquiry: One of the tragedies of getting old is seeing this perspective confirmed in the indifferent destinies of commodities that were once far more than mere commodities to you. Distinctions that seemed crucial, epochal, even existential, are slowly eroded until you are forced to admit to yourself that maybe they never existed at all. Or at best, the distinctions were not ontological, not in the intrinsic nature of the things you cared about, but were instead historically contingent. Which in turn means your sense of self, the differences that were so salient and so definitive of how you thought of yourself, were also contingent, historical artifacts. Read More

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One of the tragedies of getting old is seeing this perspective confirmed in the indifferent destinies of commodities that were once far more than mere commodities to you. Distinctions that seemed crucial, epochal, even existential, are slowly eroded until you are forced to admit to yourself that maybe they never existed at all. Or at best, the distinctions were not ontological, not in the intrinsic nature of the things you cared about, but were instead historically contingent. Which in turn means your sense of self, the differences that were so salient and so definitive of how you thought of yourself, were also contingent, historical artifacts.

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March 19, 2012 • 66 notes • thepiratebay.se

With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we’re going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war.

We’re just starting so we haven’t figured everything out yet. But we can’t limit ourselves to hosting things just on land anymore. These Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) are just the first attempt. With modern radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km away. For the proxy system we’re building, that’s more than enough.

But when time comes we will host in all parts of the galaxy, being true to our slogan of being the galaxy’s most resilient system. And all of the parts we’ll use to build that system on will be downloadable.

The Pirate Bay - The galaxy’s most resilient bittorrent site

Holy crap.

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This might just be the new definition of hardcore.

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March 19, 2012 • 10 notes • self-romance
self-romance: On this day: Josef Albers is born March 19, 2012 by artstor A ten-page extract of Albers’ colour book taught me more about colour than my whole colour exploration course.

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On this day: Josef Albers is born

March 19, 2012 by artstor

A ten-page extract of Albers’ colour book taught me more about colour than my whole colour exploration course.

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March 15, 2012
This is why student quality paint sucks. Bottom blob is Stevenson artist acrylic raw umber, top of the bottom is som old W&N Finity (artist quality) raw umber. Middle blob is W&N Galleria student quality raw umber, top is burnt sienna for key reference.

This is why student quality paint sucks. Bottom blob is Stevenson artist acrylic raw umber, top of the bottom is som old W&N Finity (artist quality) raw umber. Middle blob is W&N Galleria student quality raw umber, top is burnt sienna for key reference.

March 14, 2012 • 1 note

Poorly Designed Toys

Just saw a kid in Chinatown playing with a car that, when moving, played the opening riff of Axel F over and over.

February 26, 2012 • 1 note
In progress: Hipster Deposition.

In progress: Hipster Deposition.

February 21, 2012 • 123,500 notes • thefrogman

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