February 2012
16 posts
“So capital is in fact borderless; that’s the problem. On the other hand capital...”
– Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “A Borderless World”, University of Arizona, 19 January 2012. (via chipclayton)
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“The most difficult thing about thinking is where to start.”
– Marlene van Niekerk, from Triomf
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“I want the world to be Mardi Gras.”
– One of the seven unnamed Vanderbilt ~~*FrAtStArZ*~~ staying with us through Sunday morning. This nugget followed, “I told the nurse, bro…I don’t wanna get discharged, I just wanna chill, ya know?”
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“The pictures are of a Koala named Ray Charles cause he is blind from getting hit...”
– Clara, on being photographed with a koala.
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“That music does not make any sense.”
– Clara, on Australian heavy metal concerts
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“She really took him to task and responded beautifully saying that there is no...”
– Idelber Avelar, on Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her involvement as an left-wing activist against Brazil’s military dictatorship. Read the whole interview here, at Transitional Justice in Brazil.
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“No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke — that the...”
– David Foster Wallace (via coeur-delion)
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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was...”
– Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood (via missingthejackandtheace)
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Hey guys!
This week has been one of those soul-crushingly busy, Finals Week type of weeks (5 hours of sleep! in 48 hours! Never never never never never again), but one product of the past four days and negligence of social relationships has been this guy, a blog I designed and co-administer on transitional justice in Brazil.
The conversation—in media and scholastic circles—regarding...