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About: A myriad of things,
but I'm afraid nothing that you'd really care.
So, just get away.
Sincerely and yours truly,
William.

Nunca he sido un pesimista. Solo un optimista con pésima suerte.






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Cosmos, Weed, & Life.: Cultural Evolution Could Be Studied in Google Books Database

cosmosweednlife:

Google’s massive trove of scanned books could be useful for researchers studying the evolution of culture.

In a paper published Dec. 16 in Science, researchers turned part of that vast textual corpus into a 500-billion-word database in which the frequency of words can be measured over time and…

(Source: Wired, via oohhcomely)

But don’t let your guard down because society will always try to eat you whole.

But don’t let your guard down because society will always try to eat you whole.

(via dxo)

This is why the notion of reform is so stupid and hypocritical. Either reforms are designed by people who claim to be representative, who make a profession of speaking for others, and they lead to a division of power, to a distribution of this new power which is consequently increased by a double repression; or they arise from the complaints and demands of those concerned. This latter instance is no longer a reform but revolutionary action that questions (expressing the full force of its partiality) the totality of power and the hierarchy that maintains it…There is no denying that our social system is totally without tolerance; this accounts for its extreme fragility in all its aspects and also its need for a global form of repression. In my opinion, you were the first-in your books and in the practical sphere-to teach us something absolutely fundamental: the indignity of speaking for others. We ridiculed representation and said it was finished, but we failed to draw the consequences of this “theoretical” conversion-to appreciate the theoretical fact that only those directly concerned can speak in a practical way on their own behalf. —Deleuze, in conversation with Foucault (via rhizombie)

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