Sawyer Paul's Blog, page 111
April 29, 2012
thenewinquiry:
If we spent much time actually thinking through...
If we spent much time actually thinking through how staggering the daily facts of our technological lives are right now–not just the phones in our pockets but the food on our plates, the clothes on our backs, the forging frontiers of our collective imagination–well, how could we carry on getting up and going to work every day? How could we avoid the delicious, discomfiting paralysis of future shock long enough to fix dinner and file those reports? If we looked too hard at the system, would it start to collapse? This is why science fiction is dangerous. When we hear Slavoj Žižek’s famous aphorism (often mis-attributed as his original coinage) that it is “easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” we should also be asking ourselves the second question, contained within the first: why is it so very easy to imagine the end of the world?
“The Future, Probably,” by Laurie Penny | Read More
April 28, 2012
hookersorcake:
Whenever I feel a twinge of guilt
for having a...
Whenever I feel a twinge of guilt
for having a second diet root beer.
I try to remember to breathe and repeat
my mantra
“We are vibrating piles
of star dust
wired like a
mother fucking toaster.”
April 26, 2012
“Cartman Finds Love”
Although this season has dealt with the rise of Big Brother, infomercial scams, and a shitload of reality-show parodies, South Park can still drop an emotional bomb at the drop of a hat. What makes “Cartman” so strong is the juxtaposition of Eric’s genuine desire to see Token matched up with new girl Nichole and the batshit insane racism that goes into that genuine desire.
