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*from the title of a review of Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure by Michael Foot, Evening Standard, Nov. 26, 1943.
22 Nov 2017
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“ Dogen does not speak of the merit that accords to giving in terms of overcoming the duality of self and other; rather, he seems to suggest that this merit has to do with redrawing the boundary of self and other on more compassionate lines.
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Leah Kalmanson, ‘Shushogi Paragraph 21′, in Engaging Dogen’s Zen: The Philosophy of Practice as Awakening

Been reading this collection of essays on Dogen’s Zen and each of them as something interesting to say - about the beauty of mundane existence, or karma as the ‘avowal’ of body and mind - as does this about generosity “redrawing the boundary of self and other”, which also fits in quite well with social critiques of individualism and consumerism, I think.

zen dogen books
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16 Nov 2017
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thenewinquiry: “Our November contributors know that the regular routine of things is reaching a pitch where it cannot go on. Subscribe now to read their work on UBI as sustenance for late capitalism, back pain, the feel-good commuter story, labor...

thenewinquiry:

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29 Oct 2017
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nobrashfestivity: “ Katsushika Hokusai, Mt. Fuji in Clear Weather, Woodblock print Variation print from Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji, 1830 to 1832, Color Woodblock Prints University of Wisconsin-Madison more ”

nobrashfestivity:

Katsushika Hokusai, Mt. Fuji in Clear Weather, Woodblock print

Variation print from Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji, 1830 to 1832, Color Woodblock Prints

University of Wisconsin-Madison


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17 Oct 2017
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#metamemery

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10 Oct 2017
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animatedtext: “requested by superwigigirl ”

animatedtext:

requested by superwigigirl

(Source: animatedtext, via animatedtext)

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““The freedom, however frightening, of his dreams, the hallucinations of his madness, have more power of attraction for fifteenth-century man than the desirable reality of the flesh“ - Foucault, Madness and Civilization ” (detail from ‘The Temptation...

“The freedom, however frightening, of his dreams, the hallucinations of his madness, have more power of attraction for fifteenth-century man than the desirable reality of the flesh“ 

- Foucault, Madness and Civilization

(detail from ‘The Temptation of St Anthony’, Dominicus Van Wijnen, National Gallery of Ireland) 

art foucault
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» Sex Positivism — Real Life

I wrote a piece (under a semi-pseudonym) for Real Life about positivist readings of sexuality from pornographic ‘big data’, how that reflects society’s Foucauldian conflation of identity and desire, and how a theory of ethics could offer a different way of expressing pleasure.

porn sex foucault internet
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08 Oct 2017
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Statue of Robert Emmet in St Stephen’s Green.

Statue of Robert Emmet in St Stephen’s Green.

phone pics dublin
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02 Oct 2017
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Leatherface,’Evil That Men Do’, Minx (1993)

(Source: Spotify)

leatherface punk 90s
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13 Sep 2017
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“how hath fanespanned most high heaven the skysign of soft advertisement!” (Finnegans Wake, 4.13)

“how hath fanespanned most high heaven the skysign of soft advertisement!” (Finnegans Wake, 4.13)

joyce finnegans wake
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