sentimentally defiant
“Face life as you find it — defiantly and unafraid. Waste no energy yearning for the moon. Crush out all sentiment.” versus “The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.” = I don’t think Nietzche and Sophocles would’ve gotten along.
every inspiration comes from a state of deprivation.
(via e-schatology)
Haze of Capitalism: For Derrida, undecidability was never a synonym for mere...
For Derrida, undecidability was never a synonym for mere indeterminacy, or some loose free play of meaning. Rather, undecidability was a way of explaining a very specific structural condition at the heart of language. Undecidability was what preceded and therefore made possible the production of…
“I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what they feel like are limitations. If they push against these limitations, will they wind up in the realm of chaos, or will they push against limitations and wind up in the world of freedom?”—
Philip Roth
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
