December 2008
7 posts
Wow. What an amazing Christmas.
So this holiday season I lost all my jobs (well, to be precise, “contract postponed indefinitely”) and broke the hard drive of my computer. I’m using my last paycheck to get my lifeline going again. Which sadly means I could no longer afford an Internet connection.
So I guess it’s goodbye to the online life for me. Have fun without me. I don’t know when I’ll be...
Ironic, really.
I thought OpenID was created so that we can move seamlessly from one website to the next. Then a whole lot of services jumped in on the bandwagon, and suddenly, boom! I now have over half a dozen of OpenID accounts!
So now whenever I log on to a website that asks for my OpenID account, the first thought that comes up on my mind is, “OK, which OpenID should I use now?” And then after...
The song I composed back in late 2006 with The...
One of the things that bother me most
is how people view neuroscience as the more representative science of their psyche, not psychoanalysis. Of course, a large part has to deal with the affinity of psychoanalytic thinking with both the sad pseudo-masochistic state of cultural studies today and also the injunctions to use psychoanalysis for personal use only.
One of the intellectual tasks I wish to undertake is to invigorate the...
“And it is because we know better than those who went before how to recognize the...”
– Jacques Lacan, Seminar VII
I used to think that
the proper response to the standard capitalist injunction to “dream big and achieve” is the standard postmodern-Marxist way of deconstructing of how all of that are structures of power and ideology, and we should opt for a nihilistic paradigm, giving up desire for drive.
I’ve been reading Kant and (Lacan’s reading of) Antigone, and, as always, the manga One Piece. Now I...
November 2008
8 posts
I love Boa’s Duvet, especially in this...
I like having random friends
on Facebook. I hate it when people complain how they have hundreds of friend requests from people they don’t know. What’s the deal? I know some celebrities who managed to approve 5000 friends (max Facebook number) without complaining. So why should anyone?
For me, it’s a form of support, a form for people to say “We’re here and we think you’re fantastic!”...
The reason I love psychoanalysis
is that it allows me to acknowledge the fact that I do not exist.
It’s not the standard subjectivist-solipsistic philosophical realization that all reality is just inside my mind. It’s rather the fact that reality stupidly and stubbornly exists out there while I do not.
October 2008
5 posts
“Passion is the abandonment of the ego to an object (…) that has taken the...”
– No Subject
“The whole of reality… it’s just it, it’s stupid. It’s...”
– Slavoj Žižek
What disturbs me about holidays
is that there always lingers this obscene injunction of the big Other to enjoy, relax, and have fun. I don’t like it. I like working, writing, and being productive. Fuck with those pseudo-anti-industrialist hedonist attitudes that say life is primarily to have fun without too much work. The true subversive act in today’s society of control is to radically assume work without fun.
I...
September 2008
11 posts
“Dangerous moments are coming. Dangerous moments are always also a chance to do...”
– Slavoj Žižek
Making new lifeforms is about
the coolest job ever. Seriously, I am awed by the way people still get offended by the theory of evolution, cloning, and stem cell research, while the biotechnologists could now easily make new species with some funky lego-like biological blocks. No, seriously.
Yes, I’ll come up with a posthuman Lacanian critical theory analysis or some other funky stuff sooner or later, but right now...
I love the sound of people walking away.
I love Pikmin!
August 2008
11 posts
“Religion should be like a swinger club, we believe. A dark room where you...”
– Johannes Grenzfurthner, on the International Year of Polytheism.
Shiro Sagisu’s Escape to the Beginning...
A music of melancholy
plays in my heart; music like the drizzle after a heavier rain in a densely clouded dark afternoon when I’m wearing pale yellow and feeling cold, looking for hot soup but only finding stale bread with cheap chocolate, wanting to smell earth but to no avail…
I think I will lie down for a bit.
Bubu: Why is there no more working class in the West?
Kiki: Because they are all in China!
Yoko Kanno’s Inner Universe. Another...
“We were not outsmarted. And we were not outargued. We lost because we were...”
– Naomi Klein
“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a new bank?”
– Bertolt Brecht
July 2008
15 posts
Surfen Multimedia by Eurocats. The official...
“I may be opposed to what you dream, but I will defend to my death the right that...”
– Myself (adapting from Voltaire)
WatchI love Animoto! What a new language of art creation!
Hokkaido Toyako Summit: Special Address by H.E.... →
It seems that ACTA got passed. Or at least the plan to pass it got passed. Not much difference, anyway, it’s still a shitty situation.
