just got my ticket. comes out to 19 bucks total.

Notwist
Friday, Oct 17, 2008 8:00 AM CDT
at Logan Square Auditorium

goddammit.
i've loved this band since i was 13 yrs old.
i'd see them in a second, except 1) it's at a kinda crappily-big place
2) we're going to be right in the middle of packing and moving at this time

i'm really divided.
someone tell me what to do!

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no way! the Meatmen are playing?

isn't Tesco Vee dead? somehow i just assumed he had to be...

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Friday, Jun 20, 2008 9:30 PM CDT (9:00 PM Doors)
at Subterranean

anyone wanna see the Islands with me?

Islands / AWOL One / Crayonsmith

Monday, Jun 02, 2008 8:30 PM CDT
at Logan Square Auditorium

ahaha
i love this town.

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I read Junot Diaz's first book, a collection of short stories called 'Drown' in a course about 5 years ago, and liked it quite a bit.

i just now found out that his recently-released first novel called "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" (2007) just walked off with the Pulitzer prize. not bad for a first novel.
if i have time, who knows when, i'd like to check it out. his complicated sense of race, both in an urban setting and in a historical setting, makes his work interesting.

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from a review online:
"...Junot Diaz's dark and exuberant first novel makes a compelling case for the multiperspectival view of a life, wherein an individual cannot be known or understood in isolation from the history of his family and his nation.Oscar being a first-generation Dominican-American, the nation in question is really two nations. And Dominicans in this novel being explicitly of mixed Taíno, African and Spanish descent, the very ideas of nationhood and nationality are thoughtfully, subtly complicated.
The various nationalities and generations are subtended by the recurring motif of fukú, the Curse and Doom of the New World, whose midwife and... victim was a historical personage Diaz will only call the Admiral, in deference to the belief that uttering his name brings bad luck (hint: he arrived in the New World in 1492 and his initials are CC). By the prologue's end, it's clear that this story of one poor guy's cursed life will also be the story of how 500 years of historical and familial bad luck shape the destiny of its fat, sad, smart, lovable and short-lived protagonist. The book's pervasive sense of doom is offset by a rich and playful prose that embodies its theme of multiple nations, cultures and languages, often shifting in a single sentence from English to Spanish, from Victorian formality to Negropolitan vernacular, from Homeric epithet to dirty bilingual insult."

i kind of wish i would've found this like 3 months ago. ah well.

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"The Cartesian cogito—the principle articulated by Descartes that "I think, therefore I am"—is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. At the same time, the cogito’s agent, the ego, is sometimes feared as the agency of manipulative domination responsible for all present woes, from patriarchal oppression to ecological catastrophes. Without psychoanalyzing philosophy, Cogito and the Unconscious explores the vicissitudes of the cogito and shows that psychoanalyses can render visible a constitutive madness within modern philosophy, the point at which "I think, therefore I am" becomes obsessional neurosis characterized by "If I stop thinking, I will cease to exist."
Noting that for Lacan the Cartesian construct is the same as the Freudian "subject of the unconscious," the contributors follow Lacan’s plea for a psychoanalytic return to the cogito. Along the path of this return, they examine the ethical attitude that befits modern subjectivity, the inherent sexualization of modern subjectivity, the impasse in which the Cartesian project becomes involved given the enigmatic status of the human body, and the Cartesian subject’s confrontation with its modern critics, including Althusser, Bataille, and Dennett. In a style that has become familiar to Zizek’s readers, these essays bring together a strict conceptual analysis and an approach to a wide range of cultural and ideological phenomena—from the sadist paradoxes of Kant’s moral philosophy to the universe of Ayn Rand’s novels, from the question "Which, if any, is the sex of the cogito?" to the defense of the cogito against the onslaught of cognitive sciences.
Challenging us to reconsider fundamental notions of human consciousness and modern subjectivity, this is a book whose very Lacanian orthodoxy makes it irreverently transgressive of predominant theoretical paradigms. Cogito and the Unconscious will appeal to readers interested in philosophy, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, and theories of ideology."

Contributors. Miran Bozovic, Mladen Dolar, Alain Grosrichard, Marc de Kessel, Robert Pfaller, Renata Salecl, Slavoj Zizek, Alenka Zupancic

no idea if it's any good. anyone looked at it?

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