The False Subject

    I think that my philosophical beliefs are starting to make people uncomfortable. Matt and I talk about this sometime – he tells me that you’re not allowed to espouse in public the sort of things that I espouse in public. I’m not sure what to make of that – I used to think he [...]

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The Gay Science

I’ve acquired a morbid fascination with philosophical deaths. First God. Then Reason. Then, ultimately, the death of Man. This post isn’t intended as a tribute, nor a eulogy, but rather as an exploration and explanation of the death of the subject in the twentieth century. Perhaps ironically, the expanded influence of western scientific positivism led [...]

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Setting the Record Straight

So, the latest batch of post-structuralist readding has been issues of gender and sexuality. This is, of course, something you’re not allowed to talk about in polite society – a tactful homophobia mixed with vague expressions about tolerance and individualism is about as much free play as one can expect to receive within structured heterosexism. [...]

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Black Power

 

If I were Barack Obama, I would take this opportunity to fuck with people. Not like tap-John-McCain-on-the-opposite-shoulder-and-see-which-way-he-looks-fuck-with-people – I mean announce that he’s going to invade Canada fuck with people. Would many of his supporters desert him? A few, perhaps, but probably counterweighted by a big swing in the border states, not to mention he [...]

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

I think there’s only so much time I can continue to convince myself that I am a safe person. I believe that I am quite literally losing my grip on sanity. It’s an exhilirating feeling, a little bit powerful and a little bit frightening. My citizenship interview occurs Monday, and I am quite likely the [...]

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Putting the Class in Iconoclasty

Right now, I feel like a wrench in the system. I’m playing on words here slightly, probably the result of too much time spent amongst that particularly French trend of parsing out linguistic trivialities. Doublespeak, in a sense, which is particularly amusing because what I’m engaging in is double-think. Language bears the the necessity of [...]

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My Desk Job

This is a clever pun on the notion of writing itself. Since I’m currently pressed for time, you all can read my essays that I’m writing for class. Sounds lame, right? Wrong. My essays rock, because they’re all about sex and psychology – two things guaranteed to make friends at any sorority. Without further ado, [...]

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Deep Thoughts

There is an inverse relationship between the frequency with which you say “book-smarts” and the number of books you own.

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