Michael Onfray has this amusing photo of a copy of Kant’s Critiques with a disclaimer stamped on its title sheet: “This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race, […]
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Design idea for a watch: It has no numbers or hands. It has only text saying Time has no meaning. It is sold in both jewel-encrusted and cheap knock-off versions. I do not make them myself. I license manufacturers in Asia and distributors in Europe and North America. Deconstructing my performance-art-as-text, you will discern my
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(More on the sexiness of communist sex.)
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What if we applied the many arguments for economic controls to sex? An important announcement: From the Office of the Reproducer-General [mp3] or [YouTube]. The original post: “From the Office of the Reproducer-General” [or as pdf].
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‘Tis the season for Christmas carols, revised for philosophical accuracy, with explanatory links, just for fun. Sigmund Freud: I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus Underneath the mistletoe last night. But with therapy I think that I Should recover and become all right. . William James: Angels we have heard while high. . . . Jean-Jacques
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Researchers say the average woman speaks 20,000 words a day, and the average man speaks 7,000. Apparently, the Foxp2 protein is implicated. So we may now have an answer to this wry question from Austin O’Malley: “Why is the word tongue feminine in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French and German?” And this intriguing study of
Noam Chomsky is a mixed bag intellectually, but I like this quotation forwarded to me by Edward Fox: “There are lots of things I don’t understand — say, the latest debates over whether neutrinos have mass or the way that Fermat’s last theorem was (apparently) proven recently. But from 50 years in this game, I
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