Jun 1
Notes on Christopher Hill's 'The World Turned Upside Down'Some quotes, notes and scribblings on a now famous book on the age of infant Capitalism in England – “The World Turned Upside Down” by Christopher Hill. It is remarkable how contemporary these seedlings of revolution feel, the ethics, shared understandings of power, and the materialism of so much of the so called sacred world of authority. These folks were far from …
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Nov 10
Notes on Minqi Li's 'The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World EconomyNotes on a terrific work in political economy. Extremely pertinent to our present.
“Suppose, in response to the current crisis of neoliberalism, global capitalism is restructured with a greater degree of state intervention and more equal distribution of income (is this not what much of the world’s intellectual Left is hoping for at the moment?), would it not be expected that in at most …
moreJun 16
Unique by CastoriadisIt is possible that at times people drape themselves in Roman tunics to play the bourgeois revolution—or that a general wnats to play Joan of Arc in twentieth-century dress; but how is it that, in real history, it is never Zerlina who replies to Agamemnon and that Brutus never has Monsieur Perrichon for his friend and confidant? - Cornelius CastoriadisApr 21
And Quite Flows the DonBy Mikhail Sholokhov,
How human beings have sullied, have poisoned the world! How much human misery has been poured out! She turned passionately towards Bunchuk and sought for his hand. ‘Tell me, wouldn’t it be sweet to die for that? Tell me! Yes? What is there to believe in, if not in that? What is one to live for? It seems to me that if I die in the struggle…’ She …
moreMar 26
The Past by GorkyThis is not meant as a reproach. The past is not irreproachable, but there is no sense in reproaching it. It should be studied. – Maxim Gorky2022
Dec 24
Some Reflections on 'The Gift' by Marcel MaussA few excerpts from the tremendous text.
“These peoples [Melanesian tribes] possess an extra domestic economy and a very developed system of exchange that throbs with life more intensely and more precipitantly perhaps than the one that our peasants or the fishing villages along our coasts were familiar with maybe not even a hundred years ago. They have an extensive economic life, going …
moreOct 8
Computational Biology for Autodidacts“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today” – Malcolm X
Once upon a time I was labouring about with pipettes in hand, cutting and pasting plasmids, asking questions about the edibility of my agarose gels. I eventually parted ways with the wet lab and moved into teaching myself Computational skills that I could apply to …
moreSep 22
Braudel, a Dialectician?Sep 21
The Eternal Now by Paul TillichWhat follows are some of my favorite excerpts from the Theologian Paul Tillich’s book ‘The Eternal Now’.
They withdraw into a self-chosen loneliness, taking revenge through bitterness and hostility towards those they feel have rejected them, actually enjoying the pain of their loneliness.
One of these ways is the desire towards the silence of nature. We can speak without voice to …
moreSep 6
Was Too Small by Bertolt BrechtShen Teh:
Yes, it is me. Shui Ta and Shen Teh, I am both of them.
Your original order
To be good while yet surviving
Split me like lightning into two people. I
Cannot tell what occurred: goodness to others
And to myself could not both be achieved.
To serve both self and others I found too hard.
Oh, your world is arduous! Such need, such description!
The hand which is held out to the starving
more
more
Nov 10
Notes on Minqi Li's 'The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World EconomyNotes on a terrific work in political economy. Extremely pertinent to our present.
“Suppose, in response to the current crisis of neoliberalism, global capitalism is restructured with a greater degree of state intervention and more equal distribution of income (is this not what much of the world’s intellectual Left is hoping for at the moment?), would it not be expected that in at most …
moreJun 16
Unique by CastoriadisIt is possible that at times people drape themselves in Roman tunics to play the bourgeois revolution—or that a general wnats to play Joan of Arc in twentieth-century dress; but how is it that, in real history, it is never Zerlina who replies to Agamemnon and that Brutus never has Monsieur Perrichon for his friend and confidant? - Cornelius CastoriadisApr 21
And Quite Flows the DonBy Mikhail Sholokhov,
How human beings have sullied, have poisoned the world! How much human misery has been poured out! She turned passionately towards Bunchuk and sought for his hand. ‘Tell me, wouldn’t it be sweet to die for that? Tell me! Yes? What is there to believe in, if not in that? What is one to live for? It seems to me that if I die in the struggle…’ She …
moreMar 26
The Past by GorkyThis is not meant as a reproach. The past is not irreproachable, but there is no sense in reproaching it. It should be studied. – Maxim Gorky2022
Dec 24
Some Reflections on 'The Gift' by Marcel MaussA few excerpts from the tremendous text.
“These peoples [Melanesian tribes] possess an extra domestic economy and a very developed system of exchange that throbs with life more intensely and more precipitantly perhaps than the one that our peasants or the fishing villages along our coasts were familiar with maybe not even a hundred years ago. They have an extensive economic life, going …
moreOct 8
Computational Biology for Autodidacts“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today” – Malcolm X
Once upon a time I was labouring about with pipettes in hand, cutting and pasting plasmids, asking questions about the edibility of my agarose gels. I eventually parted ways with the wet lab and moved into teaching myself Computational skills that I could apply to …
moreSep 22
Braudel, a Dialectician?Sep 21
The Eternal Now by Paul TillichWhat follows are some of my favorite excerpts from the Theologian Paul Tillich’s book ‘The Eternal Now’.
They withdraw into a self-chosen loneliness, taking revenge through bitterness and hostility towards those they feel have rejected them, actually enjoying the pain of their loneliness.
One of these ways is the desire towards the silence of nature. We can speak without voice to …
moreSep 6
Was Too Small by Bertolt BrechtShen Teh:
Yes, it is me. Shui Ta and Shen Teh, I am both of them.
Your original order
To be good while yet surviving
Split me like lightning into two people. I
Cannot tell what occurred: goodness to others
And to myself could not both be achieved.
To serve both self and others I found too hard.
Oh, your world is arduous! Such need, such description!
The hand which is held out to the starving
more
more
Jun 16
Unique by CastoriadisIt is possible that at times people drape themselves in Roman tunics to play the bourgeois revolution—or that a general wnats to play Joan of Arc in twentieth-century dress; but how is it that, in real history, it is never Zerlina who replies to Agamemnon and that Brutus never has Monsieur Perrichon for his friend and confidant? - Cornelius CastoriadisApr 21
And Quite Flows the DonBy Mikhail Sholokhov,
How human beings have sullied, have poisoned the world! How much human misery has been poured out! She turned passionately towards Bunchuk and sought for his hand. ‘Tell me, wouldn’t it be sweet to die for that? Tell me! Yes? What is there to believe in, if not in that? What is one to live for? It seems to me that if I die in the struggle…’ She …
moreMar 26
The Past by GorkyThis is not meant as a reproach. The past is not irreproachable, but there is no sense in reproaching it. It should be studied. – Maxim Gorky2022
Dec 24
Some Reflections on 'The Gift' by Marcel MaussA few excerpts from the tremendous text.
“These peoples [Melanesian tribes] possess an extra domestic economy and a very developed system of exchange that throbs with life more intensely and more precipitantly perhaps than the one that our peasants or the fishing villages along our coasts were familiar with maybe not even a hundred years ago. They have an extensive economic life, going …
moreOct 8
Computational Biology for Autodidacts“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today” – Malcolm X
Once upon a time I was labouring about with pipettes in hand, cutting and pasting plasmids, asking questions about the edibility of my agarose gels. I eventually parted ways with the wet lab and moved into teaching myself Computational skills that I could apply to …
moreSep 22
Braudel, a Dialectician?Sep 21
The Eternal Now by Paul TillichWhat follows are some of my favorite excerpts from the Theologian Paul Tillich’s book ‘The Eternal Now’.
They withdraw into a self-chosen loneliness, taking revenge through bitterness and hostility towards those they feel have rejected them, actually enjoying the pain of their loneliness.
One of these ways is the desire towards the silence of nature. We can speak without voice to …
moreSep 6
Was Too Small by Bertolt BrechtShen Teh:
Yes, it is me. Shui Ta and Shen Teh, I am both of them.
Your original order
To be good while yet surviving
Split me like lightning into two people. I
Cannot tell what occurred: goodness to others
And to myself could not both be achieved.
To serve both self and others I found too hard.
Oh, your world is arduous! Such need, such description!
The hand which is held out to the starving
more
Apr 21
And Quite Flows the DonBy Mikhail Sholokhov,
How human beings have sullied, have poisoned the world! How much human misery has been poured out! She turned passionately towards Bunchuk and sought for his hand. ‘Tell me, wouldn’t it be sweet to die for that? Tell me! Yes? What is there to believe in, if not in that? What is one to live for? It seems to me that if I die in the struggle…’ She …
moreMar 26
The Past by GorkyThis is not meant as a reproach. The past is not irreproachable, but there is no sense in reproaching it. It should be studied. – Maxim Gorky2022
Dec 24
Some Reflections on 'The Gift' by Marcel MaussA few excerpts from the tremendous text.
“These peoples [Melanesian tribes] possess an extra domestic economy and a very developed system of exchange that throbs with life more intensely and more precipitantly perhaps than the one that our peasants or the fishing villages along our coasts were familiar with maybe not even a hundred years ago. They have an extensive economic life, going …
moreOct 8
Computational Biology for Autodidacts“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today” – Malcolm X
Once upon a time I was labouring about with pipettes in hand, cutting and pasting plasmids, asking questions about the edibility of my agarose gels. I eventually parted ways with the wet lab and moved into teaching myself Computational skills that I could apply to …
moreSep 22
Braudel, a Dialectician?Sep 21
The Eternal Now by Paul TillichWhat follows are some of my favorite excerpts from the Theologian Paul Tillich’s book ‘The Eternal Now’.
They withdraw into a self-chosen loneliness, taking revenge through bitterness and hostility towards those they feel have rejected them, actually enjoying the pain of their loneliness.
One of these ways is the desire towards the silence of nature. We can speak without voice to …
moreSep 6
Was Too Small by Bertolt BrechtShen Teh:
Yes, it is me. Shui Ta and Shen Teh, I am both of them.
Your original order
To be good while yet surviving
Split me like lightning into two people. I
Cannot tell what occurred: goodness to others
And to myself could not both be achieved.
To serve both self and others I found too hard.
Oh, your world is arduous! Such need, such description!
The hand which is held out to the starving
more
more
Mar 26
The Past by GorkyThis is not meant as a reproach. The past is not irreproachable, but there is no sense in reproaching it. It should be studied. – Maxim Gorky2022
Dec 24
Some Reflections on 'The Gift' by Marcel MaussA few excerpts from the tremendous text.
“These peoples [Melanesian tribes] possess an extra domestic economy and a very developed system of exchange that throbs with life more intensely and more precipitantly perhaps than the one that our peasants or the fishing villages along our coasts were familiar with maybe not even a hundred years ago. They have an extensive economic life, going …
moreOct 8
Computational Biology for Autodidacts“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today” – Malcolm X
Once upon a time I was labouring about with pipettes in hand, cutting and pasting plasmids, asking questions about the edibility of my agarose gels. I eventually parted ways with the wet lab and moved into teaching myself Computational skills that I could apply to …
moreSep 22
Braudel, a Dialectician?Sep 21
The Eternal Now by Paul TillichWhat follows are some of my favorite excerpts from the Theologian Paul Tillich’s book ‘The Eternal Now’.
They withdraw into a self-chosen loneliness, taking revenge through bitterness and hostility towards those they feel have rejected them, actually enjoying the pain of their loneliness.
One of these ways is the desire towards the silence of nature. We can speak without voice to …
moreSep 6
Was Too Small by Bertolt BrechtShen Teh:
Yes, it is me. Shui Ta and Shen Teh, I am both of them.
Your original order
To be good while yet surviving
Split me like lightning into two people. I
Cannot tell what occurred: goodness to others
And to myself could not both be achieved.
To serve both self and others I found too hard.
Oh, your world is arduous! Such need, such description!
The hand which is held out to the starving
more
Dec 24
Some Reflections on 'The Gift' by Marcel MaussA few excerpts from the tremendous text.
“These peoples [Melanesian tribes] possess an extra domestic economy and a very developed system of exchange that throbs with life more intensely and more precipitantly perhaps than the one that our peasants or the fishing villages along our coasts were familiar with maybe not even a hundred years ago. They have an extensive economic life, going …
moreOct 8
Computational Biology for Autodidacts“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today” – Malcolm X
Once upon a time I was labouring about with pipettes in hand, cutting and pasting plasmids, asking questions about the edibility of my agarose gels. I eventually parted ways with the wet lab and moved into teaching myself Computational skills that I could apply to …
moreSep 22
Braudel, a Dialectician?Sep 21
The Eternal Now by Paul TillichWhat follows are some of my favorite excerpts from the Theologian Paul Tillich’s book ‘The Eternal Now’.
They withdraw into a self-chosen loneliness, taking revenge through bitterness and hostility towards those they feel have rejected them, actually enjoying the pain of their loneliness.
One of these ways is the desire towards the silence of nature. We can speak without voice to …
moreSep 6
Was Too Small by Bertolt BrechtShen Teh:
Yes, it is me. Shui Ta and Shen Teh, I am both of them.
Your original order
To be good while yet surviving
Split me like lightning into two people. I
Cannot tell what occurred: goodness to others
And to myself could not both be achieved.
To serve both self and others I found too hard.
Oh, your world is arduous! Such need, such description!
The hand which is held out to the starving
more
more
Oct 8
Computational Biology for Autodidacts“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today” – Malcolm X
Once upon a time I was labouring about with pipettes in hand, cutting and pasting plasmids, asking questions about the edibility of my agarose gels. I eventually parted ways with the wet lab and moved into teaching myself Computational skills that I could apply to …
moreSep 22
Braudel, a Dialectician?Sep 21
The Eternal Now by Paul TillichWhat follows are some of my favorite excerpts from the Theologian Paul Tillich’s book ‘The Eternal Now’.
They withdraw into a self-chosen loneliness, taking revenge through bitterness and hostility towards those they feel have rejected them, actually enjoying the pain of their loneliness.
One of these ways is the desire towards the silence of nature. We can speak without voice to …
moreSep 6
Was Too Small by Bertolt BrechtShen Teh:
Yes, it is me. Shui Ta and Shen Teh, I am both of them.
Your original order
To be good while yet surviving
Split me like lightning into two people. I
Cannot tell what occurred: goodness to others
And to myself could not both be achieved.
To serve both self and others I found too hard.
Oh, your world is arduous! Such need, such description!
The hand which is held out to the starving
more
more
Sep 22
Braudel, a Dialectician?Sep 21
The Eternal Now by Paul TillichWhat follows are some of my favorite excerpts from the Theologian Paul Tillich’s book ‘The Eternal Now’.
They withdraw into a self-chosen loneliness, taking revenge through bitterness and hostility towards those they feel have rejected them, actually enjoying the pain of their loneliness.
One of these ways is the desire towards the silence of nature. We can speak without voice to …
moreSep 6
Was Too Small by Bertolt BrechtShen Teh:
Yes, it is me. Shui Ta and Shen Teh, I am both of them.
Your original order
To be good while yet surviving
Split me like lightning into two people. I
Cannot tell what occurred: goodness to others
And to myself could not both be achieved.
To serve both self and others I found too hard.
Oh, your world is arduous! Such need, such description!
The hand which is held out to the starving
more
Sep 21
The Eternal Now by Paul TillichWhat follows are some of my favorite excerpts from the Theologian Paul Tillich’s book ‘The Eternal Now’.
They withdraw into a self-chosen loneliness, taking revenge through bitterness and hostility towards those they feel have rejected them, actually enjoying the pain of their loneliness.
One of these ways is the desire towards the silence of nature. We can speak without voice to …
moreSep 6
Was Too Small by Bertolt BrechtShen Teh:
Yes, it is me. Shui Ta and Shen Teh, I am both of them.
Your original order
To be good while yet surviving
Split me like lightning into two people. I
Cannot tell what occurred: goodness to others
And to myself could not both be achieved.
To serve both self and others I found too hard.
Oh, your world is arduous! Such need, such description!
The hand which is held out to the starving
more
more
Sep 6
Was Too Small by Bertolt BrechtShen Teh:
Yes, it is me. Shui Ta and Shen Teh, I am both of them.
Your original order
To be good while yet surviving
Split me like lightning into two people. I
Cannot tell what occurred: goodness to others
And to myself could not both be achieved.
To serve both self and others I found too hard.
Oh, your world is arduous! Such need, such description!
The hand which is held out to the starving
more
more