haha

point...counterpoint.

this site has some other funny articles on it.
totally nonserious.

Quoted: Dickipedia.org is a parody website produced by comedy news provider 23/6. It is an unaffiliated spoof of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, leveraging the format to focus on the pejorative moniker �dick.� Dickipedia features entries about select public figures who, through recent or past actions, have been identified by 23/6 writers as embodying the qualities of a dick.

at first i thought the story simply read "hippy slain", but then it just got even more darkly satirical as i read on.

Quoted: An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey. The naked body of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, 33, known as Pippa Bacca, was found in bushes near the northern city of Gebze on Friday.
She had said she wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people.

Shaviro sells me again.
i have to see this movie now.

also: see his review of There Will Be Blood. as usual, you can re-watch the movie all over again and he'll give you a whole new way of loving it. that's why i love that guy.

Critchley's review of the new Zizek book.

just dotting to keep track of this.
props to Dubya (Will) for the reference.

it just occurred to me that some of my salvia trips are almost isomorphic with the descriptions of visual migranes, or 'auras'...except it's not limited to one side of the visual field.

Quoted:
"Seeing multitudes of tiny, identical structures, sometimes “unrolling” steadily, sometimes flickering, forming and reforming, all over the visual field, is common in migraine auras, though it is only occasionally that these are elaborated into tiny skulls, or arrays of faces or animals or other objects."

EDIT: whoops, should've kept reading, the association with self-induced drug hallucinations is already brought up here.

..."Klüver spoke here of hallucinatory “form constants” and the tendency to “geometrization,” to the “geometrical-ornamental,” seemingly built into the brain-mind. The visions produced by mescal and other hallucinogens would usually progress from these elementary forms of hallucination to elaborate visions of a much more personal and sometimes mystical sort (including scenes of people, animals, and landscapes). But Klüver remarked that the lower-level, geometric hallucinations that preceded these were identical to those found in a variety of conditions: migraine, sensory deprivation, low blood sugar, fever, delirium, or the hypnopompic and hypnagogic states that come immediately before and after sleep. Indeed, even in the absence of any special medical conditions, they could be evoked in anyone by flickering lights, or sometimes even by simply applying pressure to the eyes."

Some pretty awesome shit on this blog.
thanks to Freezerhead for Pointing it OUT.

this is a better intro to Pasoda's UFO-Nuclear War-Trotskyist Marxism.

I just decided that i should write my dissertation on this guy.

it also just occurred to me that the wealthy ubermenchian character in the novel The Watchmen kinda resembles this ideologically...on some levels...minus the Marxism.

some crazy/ridiculous quotes:

“Atomic war is inevitable. It will destroy half of humanity: it is going to destroy immense human riches. It is very possible. The atomic war is going to provoke a true inferno on Earth. But it will not impede Communism.”

“Nuclear war [equals] revolutionary war. It will damage humanity but it will not – it cannot – destroy the level of consciousness reached by it… Humanity will pass quickly through a nuclear war into a new human society – Socialism.”

"China “should launch the war now… they call upon the masses of the world to take power now”, he declared in the European Marxist Review of 1968. He saw Soviet preparation for war as being “accompanied for support for the revolution. Thus, every button they press is part of the progress of history.”

“WE SALUTE THE LAUNCHING OF THE CHINESE MISSILE WITH AN ATOMIC WARHEAD, AS A GREAT SCIENTIFIC ADVANCE OF THE WORKERS’ STATE AND A GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE WORLD MASSES.”

Just as Trotsky rejected “socialism in one country”, so Posada rejected socialism on one planet.

"humans will disappear to be replaced by something else; that humans will ultimately reproduce asexually like amœbæ"

etc etc

read this, it's amazing.

Will - this dude is a student of Braudel...
thought you might be interested...

NEW TITLE FROM VERSO

Adam Smith in Beijing : Lineages of the Twenty-First Century
by Giovanni Arrighi
An authoritative exploration of China’s emergence as the most dynamic center of economic and commercial expansion in the world today
In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the conquering West and the conquered non-West. In this magisterial new work, Giovanni Arrighi shows how China's extraordinary rise invites us to read The Wealth of Nations in a radically different way than is usually done. He examines how the recent US attempt to bring into existence the first truly global empire in world history was conceived in order to counter China's spectacular economic success of the 1990s, and how the US's disastrous failure in Iraq has made the People’s Republic of China the true winner of the US War on Terror. In the 21st century, China may well become again the kind of noncapitalist market economy that Smith described, under totally different domestic and world-historical conditions.

whoa.

Quoted: An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday.