Slog - Comments on Best in Thought http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought The new music of Burial has inspired me to make this quick list of key (key for me) philosophical essays. Walter Benjamin: "Theses on the Philosophy of History" There is no better or more complete concept of history. Mike Davis: "Dead Cities" This work is urban theory at its terminal point. Roland Barthes: "Sade" Everything you wanted to know about sex. Louis Althusser: "Ideology and the State" Theory as a missile that seeks and destroys what it seeks. Staurt Hall: "The After Life of Frantz Fanon: Why Fanon? Why Now? Why Black Skin, White Masks?" Really, what else does a... Copyright 2008 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:38:31 -0800 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:42:36 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Fyodor Zulinski ....is that fifth picture from "Dark Angel"? Really, Charles?

]]> Fyodor Zulinski http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842397 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842397 Arts Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:41:54 -0800 Comment by wow Could I please have some more info on that picture of the Space Needle?

Where did you find it? is it real?

]]> wow http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842404 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842404 Arts Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:48:39 -0800 Comment by charles it is from dark
angle. the image is here: http://alec494.egoism.jp/world/spaceneedle.htm

]]> charles http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842407 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842407 Arts Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:52:41 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle A jet pack?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842413 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842413 Arts Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:56:48 -0800 Comment by Michigan Matt The Space Needle shot is awesome.

]]> Michigan Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842420 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842420 Arts Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:04:49 -0800 Comment by pgreyy That Space Needle shot is depressing.

And inevitable.

]]> pgreyy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842422 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842422 Arts Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:05:48 -0800 Comment by supergp Loose shoes, and two other things...?

]]> supergp http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842427 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842427 Arts Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:09:19 -0800 Comment by -B- I prefer Paul Klee myself

]]> -B- http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842432 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842432 Arts Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:14:28 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Ah, so Charles learned everything he knows about sex from Barthes. Much is explained.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842438 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842438 Arts Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:16:55 -0800 Comment by Brian What about the Barthes illustration?

]]> Brian http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842490 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842490 Arts Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:07:44 -0800 Comment by The Gay Recluse Awesome list! I would add "On Man's Need for Metaphysics" by the great pessimist (and all-time bitchiest queen of the prose form) Arthur Schopenhauer. (In "The World as Will and Representation" Volume 2.) So relevant to everything happening today.

]]> The Gay Recluse http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842574 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842574 Arts Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:13:00 -0800 Comment by Donovan Nicely obscure reference, SuperGP. Even I forget who it was who said that originally, but it's also spoken (by a black actor) in Lars von Trier's film "Epidemic". The strangest moment in a very strange film.

]]> Donovan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842591 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842591 Arts Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:55:36 -0800 Comment by SeMe Cioran's A short history of decay should be on the top of this awesome list.

"In everyman sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world...

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842729 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842729 Arts Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:35:33 -0800 Comment by Rusty Shackelford "It is not altogether comfortable to live among people who feel themselves suddenly heir to vast possibilities they surely have the right to possess but will in all likelihood not get." -- Clifford Geertz

]]> Rusty Shackelford http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842847 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_best_of_thought#c842847 Arts Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:28:36 -0800 Comment by arandomdude I'm all for clarity in language, something should be expressed in the simplest terms possible but not simpler :)
So I'm annoyed at the pseudo-intellectual bullshit of "Theory as a missile that seeks and destroys what it seeks."
Fuck that, why not just say "Do theories destroy what they seek?" Much simpler isn't it?

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