December 2011
5 posts
“One man’s imagined community is another man’s political prison”
– Arjun Appadurai (via icreateasispeak)
November 2011
16 posts
“Gender isn’t a part of us. Gender is a thing we do to each other.”
– Stephan Sweet (via howdothings)
March 2011
8 posts
“We can accept that machines are stamped with social purposes without accepting...”
– Dyer-Witheford, in Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism (1999, p. 71)
February 2011
11 posts
“I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that’s where us gay...”
– Ellen DeGeneres (via pansexualpride)
January 2011
7 posts
CORRECTIVE RAPE →
i can’t believe such a term exists. gawd!
JNOMICS: Hipsters, the Network, and a Brief... →
jnomics:
(Image via The Economist)
HIPSTERS are everywhere and nowhere in the culture of the last decade. On the one hand, a quick hop on the L-Train to Williamsburg (and now Bushwick) in New York City suggests that the burgeoning population of bestubbled waifs with chunky eyewear is, if…
Bruno Latour: Action at a Distance and the... →
heterophilous:
From Technology and Social Change :
Holding a point is necessary but not sufficient, since it also means remaining in one place. What would be better, would be to keep the strongholds and yet to move elsewhere. Alas, the Prince knows very well that leaving his Palace or his Fortress, entails treachery, betrayal, revolts. How can he move on and nevertheless remain in...
December 2010
17 posts
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once...”
– Bertrand Russell (via ageofreason)