February 2012
8 posts
Modern Nihilism
“An exhaustion of meaning, a deterioration of signs. Attention, as a part of a normative account of subjectivity, comes into being only when experiences of singularity and identity are overwhelmed by equivalence and universal exchange.” -Jonathan Crary
I think I found the basis of my senior thesis. Hmmmm.
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6 February 2012, 11:43pm
I am currently surrounded by so many endings in my life, with absolutely no beginnings in sight
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January 2012
24 posts
“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will...”
– Sylvia Plath
“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at...”
– Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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“I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here...”
– Lemony Snicket
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January 16, 2012
everything around me is shifting.
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“You should date an illiterate girl.
Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in...”
– -Charles Warnke .
emotional transition: at first this made me really angry, thinking whotf would date someone who doesn’t read….but then I saw what he was doing….and by the end I melted like wax.
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On Freud's Mourning&Melancholia
“Mourning: the reaction to the loss of a loved person; or to the loss of some abstraction which has taken the place of one, such as one’s country, liberty, an ideal, and so on. In some people the same influences produce melancholia instead of mourning and we consequently suspect them of a pathological disposition.
Melancholia: A profoundly, painful dejection, cessation of interest in...
December 2011
19 posts
