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Month: April 2019
October trip to “Beijing October Academic Forum”
Just a very ex post facto post about my conference trip to Beijing last October. The conference was co-organized by my old prof, Dr. M, and Beijing Transnational Studies University on the topic of “Philosophy as World Lit.” So I arrived in Beijing somewhat late, a little after 9pm, and there was no one there…
Dawkins Review of Intellectual Impostures
Dawkins Review of Intellectual Impostures Sokal hoax stuff from Sokal’s own NYU web 1.0 page, I think.
wonderlartcafe: Kasamatsu Shiro (1898–1991) — Flower Shower 
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I don’t trust anybody’s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It’s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.…
yutani-corporation: ATARI
In T.C. Boyle’s Trippy New Novel, Characters Turn On, Tune In and Drop Lots of Acid
In T.C. Boyle’s Trippy New Novel, Characters Turn On, Tune In and Drop Lots of Acid With a soft spot for the crackpot, Boyle has, over many years and novels, made hay with American iconoclasts and ideologues, myopic seers who strive against the currents of convention. We are an experimental nation — a nation of…