[This is a quasi-semiotic reading of the UF-Student-Tasered! video found floating on the web on Sept. 17, 2007, to which I was led by a post from Larval Subjects. Also see this brilliant satire by Stephen Colbert.] After the politician answered, in his usual, monotonous, contemplative manner–as though he was still giving his speech–a question…
Monthly Archives: September 2007
[Masochism and its rejection] I’ve been here in Germany for almost two months now, and, for all that time, every single f**king weekday, with the annoyingly loud ring of my alarm clock, I’ve been waking myself up early in the morning, taking a shower to make myself somewhat presentable to the outside world (as best…
[Based on Arthur Danto’s general introduction to Nietzsche] There is a justified way in which Friedrich Nietzsche’s ontology (if we can call it that, which, in this case, is roughly the same as ethics) can be read as the constitution of forces that struggle with each other (and with themselves) to ascend to power. Nietzsche,…
[Lone Wolf by Alfred von Kowalski-Wierusz] I guess one can say that there’s a strong, independent streak in me. I hate the schedule that social life forces me to take. I work on my own time, judge my output based on my own standards. I (try to) do the things I want (despite the overwhelming…
[How Sir Bedivere Cast the Sword Excalibur into the Water by Arthur Beardsley] [All quotes are from Arthur Danto’s general introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche; A more critical discussion can be found in the Nietzsche chapter of Michael Hardt’s Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy, based on Gilles Deleuze’s Nietzsche and Philosophy.] Nietzsche has expressed the…
