May. 17th, 2016

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Well it is sunny outside and i best make the most of it as tomorrow it will rain. Boo hoo! I shall nip off to Faversham at some point. I am trying to sort out books for sale there, and i am having difficulty on letting go. But money is needed and i am down to the last twenty.
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Philosophy has its Categorical Imperative (Kant) and then there is Relativism and Utilitarianism. Is scientific truth more true than religious truth? - i tend to err on the former BTW, or is the absolute truth mathematical truth and its axioms? Discuss.
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Well so far i am totally enjoying season 3 of Orphan Black. Tatiana Maslany is awesome. I am amazed how she does all these different characters - the cloned sisters. Just amazing. I am up to episode 8 but for some reason Putlocker or Shush seem to be having problems loading from ep.8 onward due to lost file or "broken mirror" problems. I also watched the latest DC Legends Of Tomorrow ,with Arthur Darvill (Rory to Who fans) in the lead role, and certainly keeoing me transfixed to watch the next episode.

Delays

May. 17th, 2016 04:58 pm
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As already mentioned by [livejournal.com profile] cmcmck the trains were up the swanny today due to a broken down train on the bridge section coming into Rochester from Strood. I was at Teynham station waiting thirty minutes for a train that should have arrived there at 13:17. It was worse for people trying to get to London in the opposite direction with a good 45 minute delay. At last it stayed relatively sunny.

I sold a few books at my usual haunt. I held some back knowing that i would find it difficult to part company with them. I then picked up ten ounces of pipe tobacco and returned back by train. This time down to a twenty minute delay.
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Another melting pot of musical meanderings -

Porcupine Tree - Lips Of Ashes




More music here )
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Jonathan Culler "Literary Theory : A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford U.P)




This very Short Introduction book gives you a quick overview on the importance of literary theory. It is a little introduction on the history and the progression of literary studies. It was interesting how the book looked at literary criticism as a field of studies that is losing a battle to cultural studies. Even though this field stems from the study of literature, people seem more interested in studying music, movies and TV than literature. Cultural studies seem to be pushing out literary studies and, sadly, the two fields may merge.

I was glad that Culler organized the work thematically rather than by critical schools. Given that many of the best theorists overlap in many fields - is Judith Butler a psychoanalyst or feminist? is Althusser a structuralist or Marxist? and what is Foucault? - I think Culler's approach best represents how theory actually works. After all, poststructuralism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis tend to do much the same thing in a theoretical context: they all call 'the natural' (of language, of the state and economics, of the personality) into question and thereby transform the self into subject. That denaturalization is the key difference from what came before, not the differences between, say, a politically informed and a merely linguistic poststructuralism.

Moreover, even though it originally appeared about 10 years ago, its refusal to split theory into various schools preserved it from obsolescence. The pure Lacanian died out in 1999 or so, and now the best critics draw on everything.

Highly recommended.
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Rocking out, then bliss , the out again -

Sonic Youth - Stones




PLAY LOUD!


1 Giant Leap - I Love The Way You Dream (Feat, Asha Bhosle & Michael Stipe)




Awesome bliss out music!


More music here )
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Finished watching Season 3 of Orphan Black. Brilliant show as always. I also recognized the track playing in the background when Sarah revisits her daughter Kira on the Alaskan snow. it is -

Sigur Rós-Untitled 4 ('Njósnavélin')

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If you were giving directions to somebody you disliked or hated would you misdirect them?

If you met your clone what would you do? How would you react?

Nature or nurture?

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