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About Me

Familiarize yourself with the dominant ideologies and the ways in which hegemony permeates all aspects of our lived experience. Thayer asks, "how do I know that what I know is what I need to know?" The answer is, of course, found in culture. Question assumptions. Be especially suspicious toward presuppositions that seem like common sense. With critical reflection, common sense and widely held assumtions will be revealed as mere fictions.I live in Philadelphia, by the river.

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My Interests

Irony Kitcsh Postmodernism

I'd like to meet:

Those who are overburdened with the realization that something is seriously wrong and are aware that they may be complicit.

Music:

Radiohead, Beach Boys, The Clash, Velvet Underground, Joy Division, Blondie, Talking Heads, The Cure, Modest Mouse, The Pixies, Stereolab, Air, Franz Ferdinand, J5, MF Doom, Mogwai, NOFX, Prefuse 73, Sigur Ros, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, The Flaming Lips, The Postal Service, The Rapture, Zero 7, The White Stripes, The Streets, Aesop Rock, Bouncing Souls, Suicide Machines, Del, KRS-1, Tribe, George Clinton, Catch 22, Beck, Scissor Sisters, Gorillaz, Queen, The Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, Animal Collective, Sufjan Stevens, Wolf Parade, The Fiery Furnaces, The Unicorns, Islands, Of Montreal, The Blow, Annuals, Architecture In Helsinki, Pavement, Frog Eyes

Movies:

Les Cousins Dangereux. "I like the way they think"

Television:

I'm not too crazy about TV, but if there is one show to choose, it would be The Daily Show. Oh, and Arrested Development.

Books:

Anything from Kurt Vonnegut, especially Slaughterhouse-5. On the Road by Jack Kerouac. The entire Chuck Palahniuk catalog especially Survivor and Fight Club. Elaine Pagels work on Christianity specifically Gnosticism. The Power Of Myth by Joseph Campbell. The Middle Mind by Curtis White. Blowback by Chalmers Johnson. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, 1984 by George Orwell(of course). e. e. cummings, Kate Chopin, Terry Southern, mystery novels by Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami I'm also a big fan of the postmodern theorists, such as foucalt, baudrilliard and derrida.

Heroes:

Thom Yorke, William Jefferson Clinton, Martha Stewart