Tuesday, October 23, 2007

You have perhaps caused as much destruction of life by your abstinence

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An excellent quote by the Great Bengali Revolutionary Sri Aurobindo Ghosh Comrades .... Of late I have acquired a deep interest in the work...
Monday, October 22, 2007

Acting out, reaction formation, denial, projection, displacement

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THE REAL WAR ON CHILDREN: Jihadi Kids vs Metrosexual Kids from Dr. Sanity by Dr. Sanity Mark Steyn has a column that addresses the recent...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

Written text allows for certain possibilities that oral traditions or the internet do not

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larvalsubjects Says: October 17, 2007 at 4:48 pm I do, of course, agree that environment has a formative influence on us. This is what all...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

Envy is an aspect of what Freud called the death instinct

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Gagdad Bob wrote : One of the most important but little known concepts in psychoanalysis is that of envy. It is a term of art, not to be con...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Church attendance gives way to spiritual longing. Newspaper reading gives way to blogging

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The Odyssey Years By DAVID BROOKS nytimes.com : October 9, 2007 There used to be four common life phases: childhood, adolescence, adulthoo...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

You no longer have a university, but a series of identity constituencies

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Revisiting the Canon Wars By RACHEL DONADIO NYT: September 16, 2007 But when college costs run as high as $50,000 a year, it’s harder to i...

The salon is a thinking-machine

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The (Psycho-)Geography of the Enlightenment Slawkenbergius's Tales In 1971, Robert Darnton published an article in Past and Present th...
Thursday, September 27, 2007

A hybrid monster that is neither adult nor child but both at the same time

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All in the Family from One Cosmos by Gagdad Bob In my opinion, we are experiencing a collapse of the covenant between mother and father a...
Monday, September 24, 2007

Young people are naturally drawn to leftism, it gives one the appearance of strength, maturity, and adulthood

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One Cosmos Under God Robert W. Godwin Young people are naturally drawn to leftism, since they are at a developmental stage in which their t...
Saturday, September 22, 2007

I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be, free

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History and Government > U.S. Documents The Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863 By the president of the United States of America:...

As if there were no women philosophers during the past 2600 years

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Sexism in Philosophy By Karen Warren September 21, 2007 Sexism (and particular ways male-bias in philosophy continues) is indeed alive in ...
Friday, September 21, 2007

Decoding is the disruption of these social codes

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The Alethetics of Rhetoric Posted by larvalsubjects under Antagonism , Assemblages , Communication , Deleuze , Heidegger , Politics ...

The woman is very jealous of her husband’s time because her entire life is one big wait

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An und für sich “This is more a comment than a question…” Deconstructing Simone de Beauvoir September 20th, 2007 [The following is adapted...
Thursday, September 20, 2007

Atheists are the most reviled people in American society

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Atheism: teaching a taboo Professor says people who do not believe in a God are shunned, but that the class topic is a vital, societal issue...
Saturday, September 15, 2007

Islam gives importance to intentions; clicking of photographs for pleasure is unIslamic

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Deoband issues fatwa against photography The Times of India, 7 Sep 2007, 0223 hrs IST, Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui LUCKNOW: A fatwa issued by ...
Thursday, September 13, 2007

What drinking means to the people who consume or, equally tellingly, refuse to consume

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Drinking Cultures Alcohol and Identity May 2005 Thomas M. Wilson Reviews 'An ethnographic pub crawl around the world. By examining d...
Saturday, September 08, 2007

Absence of a frank discussion about the many dimensions of prostitution

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The Oldest Trade times of india/Editorial 8 Sep 2007 Prostitution may be as old as the human race itself, but our attitude towards it bord...
Friday, September 07, 2007

From a servant model to a service provider model

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Design for Servants The situation will not change until any of these four things happens: People realize that their domestic servants are h...
Thursday, September 06, 2007

70 percent of black children are born out of wedlock

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Destruction in black America is self-inflicted By Jeff Jacoby , Globe Columnist September 5, 2007 Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously warned...
Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Males that fall under the feminine side and women that fall under the masculine side

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larvalsubjects Says: September 3, 2007 at 10:54 pm Not only was Lacan well-known for working with homosexuals (when the IPA prohibited thi...

Biological-centeredness of the study of kinship in Anthropology and elsewhere

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pdxstudent Says: September 2, 2007 at 4:20 pm Dr. Sinthome, would you then say that from D&G’s criticism of the family as Ur-narrative...
Thursday, August 30, 2007

Television in rural areas have had an effect on latrine building and fan usage

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Kyunki, there’s a world out there Mahima Kaul Home > Edits & Columns > indian express : Thursday, August 30, 2007 It may not ...