August 2010
17 posts
I’ve posted this before, but it’s...
So I’ve been listening a LOT to the band...
Michael Pollan or Michel Foucault? →
OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST
These are two of the best Mich(a)els, in my opinion. Not THE best Michael, but, you know, I have my own opinions on that.
MythBusters' Adam Savage: My Lifelong Pursuit of... →
I may have posted this before and I don’t even care. Blade Runner is the best movie, and the Blade Runner gun is the best prop gun. Some of you are probably aware of my month-long Blade Runner binge earlier this year, during which I watched Blade Runner every single night (sometimes I would also watch Akira, because it’s basically Blade Runner: The Animated Series*). Anyways, as...
Mad Men: A Foucaultian take →
notational:
standardgrey:
“Mad Men is self-evidently not about the 1960s, any more than Discipline and Punish is about the late 18th century. It is about us today and the contingencies through which we came to be so. One very smart way that Mad Men goes about this is to shift our habitual understanding of when a key historical break occurred.
We typically equate ‘the sixties’ with the late...
“We’re all—especially those of us who are educated and have read a lot and have...”
– — David Foster Wallace (via teachingliteracy) (via notational)
The post-modernist in me says “well, there’s no truth, actually”, but the part of me that really hates the corruption of journalistic integrity, and the part of me that loves DFW to death, thinks this is effing great.
