Archive for the ‘ absurdism ’ Category
I dropped off a box of exams in a biology lab today, and saw this object which piqued my fancy. They too contemplate the Absolute! [ READ MORE ]
Never trust a cut-rate theologian – you’ll end up needing a new foundation on them metaphysics in less than five years! [ READ MORE ]
Like something straight out of homestar runner. I guess this is the opposite of Decemberween, actually. [ READ MORE ]
Oh, my, gawd. There’s a weird temporal mishmash – chronotope, if you will – going on when you see police officers grooming horses in trailers attached to pickup trucks, parked in the financial district. [ READ MORE ]
At a small grocery store near my apartment called ‘lucky moose,’ they have a wide variety of things. Here is one which caught my eye. The item which I myself purchased showed up on the register as ’separating sack of sack.’ I will leave it for you to determine what that might be. [ READ MORE ]
Ah, the humble cigarette. It’s Nature’s little way of exacting revenge on Europe for the whole smallpox-blanket thing in times of yore, a wondrous little abstract machine for killing off people with little interest in living. (And don’t get your hackles up already. I’ve had a family member die of lung cancer just like the [ READ MORE ]
As you (hypothetical reader!) may have noticed, I enjoy beginning my little inquiries with patently absurd statements, and then unpacking these paradoxes with theory to demonstrate the logic of the absurd. This is an implicitly Deleuzian method, and also a somewhat puerile one, but it’s also fun and productive for some reasons that will hopefully [ READ MORE ]
So, it’s been a considerable amount of time since I’ve posted much of anything on here. And I have a serious need of getting back into the discipline of thinking in text according to my own ideas, and I’ve also been having this really weird thought in my head since last night. I’m poring over [ READ MORE ]