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Where does the term stochastic terrorism come from? While evidence for the term dates back to at least 2002, the term stochastic terrorism, as we are using here, spreads in the 2010s, popularly credited to a blog post in 2011. Terrorism experts, security analysts, and political observers have been increasingly using the term stochastic terrorism…
USING IDIOMS 活用成語 – “自食惡果” 自食惡果 (zi4 shi2 e4 guo3)
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.…
“Anthropotechnics for the Anthropocene” “According to Sloterdijk, the heroic accomplishments of these spiritual athletes transform the course of history by pointing to new and difficult routes toward which even ordinary people can strive. They offer new horizons, which often take the form of a goal of liberation from everyday life into an “otherworld” or a…
The impact of war is self-evident, since economically it is exactly the same as if the nation were to drop a part of its capital into the ocean. Marx – Grundrisse 1857 (via dailymarx)
Etymology From αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “to perceive”) + -σῐς (-sis). Pronunciation more ▼ IPA(key): /ǎi̯s.tʰɛː.sis/ → /ˈɛs.θi.sis/ → /ˈes.θi.sis/ Noun αἴσθησῐς • (aísthēsis) f (genitive αἰσθήσεως); third declension Perception from the senses, feeling, hearing, seeing Perception by the intellect as well as the senses That which is perceived: scent Ability to perceive: discernment Cognition or discernment…
/ˌhɪɡ(ə)ldɪˈpɪɡ(ə)ldi/ adverb & adjective in confusion or disorder.“bits of paper hanging higgledy-piggledy on the walls"synonyms:disordered, disorderly, untidy, disorganized, messy, chaotic, jumbled, muddled, confused, unsystematic, irregular, cluttered, littered 亂七八糟.