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Benoit

N'Oubliez Pas ça!!!

About Me

I'm not very good at talking about myself. Most people can jap on and on. Thats not to say I'm above anyone, or even humble, I have my pride in certain places, its just that I don't really talk about myself. I never feel I'm talking about me.

My Interests

Continental Philosophy, Policy Debate, Thoughtful Cinema, Mixed Martial Arts

I'd like to meet:

You

Music:

cLOUDDEAD, El-P, Sixtoo, Buck 65, Sage Francis, Daedelus, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Queens of the Stone Age, James Brown, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, The White Stripes, Brian Eno, Aesop Rock, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Cannibal Ox, Cage, Yoko Kanno, Beastie Boys, MF Doom, Phillip Glass, Claude DeBussy, Edan, Flaming Lips, Jamariquai, Herbie Hancock, Illogic, Mum, Nick Drake, Portishead, The Roots, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Seu Jorge, Restiform Bodies, more

Movies:

The Seventh Seal, Oldboy, Last Life in the Universe, Seven Samurai, Resevoir Dogs, The Thin Red Line, Rashomon, Dead or Alive II, Ying Xiong, Croching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Peppermint Candy, The Shawshank Redemption, Fallen Angels, Rope, The Decalogue, Monster, Crash, Traffic, 8 Grams, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, The Sword of Doom, Ran, Citizen Kane, The Last Temptation of Christ, Cidade de Deus, 12 Angry Men, Amores Perros, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Modern Times, Adaptation, The Motorcycle Diaries, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Hours, Taxi Driver, Requiem for a Dream, American Beauty, The Usual Suspects, Peppermint Candy, Rumblefish

Television:

The Sopranos

Books:

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book I - Freud's Papers on Technique, Book II - The Ego in Freud's Theory and in Pyschoanalytical Technique, Book III - The Psychosis, La pensée sauvage , Die Traumdeutung, Jenseits von Gut und Bose, Thas Sprach Zarathustra, Totem and Taboo, Sein und Zeit

My Blog

Israel and Palestine

There is no justification to Israeli military anything at the point at which Israel denied equal citizenship status for the Palestinians. Whatever credibility they had in their oppression of Palestini...
Posted by Benoit on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 01:52:00 PST

Heidegger is complete

I've just about finished the entirety of Being and Time.  And I am born anew.  Can I ever look at notions of Time, History, and what it is to be human ever again?  If I could summarize ...
Posted by Benoit on Sat, 27 May 2006 04:36:00 PST

War

I know now the terrain of battle.  Our war is for a life worth living.  Our weapons cannot be simple reason, logic, but must be images and metaphor.  The mistake of nearly all forms of ...
Posted by Benoit on Sat, 06 May 2006 01:42:00 PST

Decisions, Decisions

It became apparent, yet again, that my future as a philosphy major, similiar to my original majoring in Film, is highly restricted.  The market is small they say.  Perhaps what is needed is ...
Posted by Benoit on Thu, 04 May 2006 03:10:00 PST

Taoism, Death, Heidegger

Something was unexpectedly disclosed to me yesterday afternoon.  A friend and I were discussing Taoism and I criticized Taoism for supposing an original synchrony in human expirience, lost to us,...
Posted by Benoit on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:14:00 PST

Bushido 10

Most people find it odd that someone like me is a big fan of the sport of Mixed Martial Arts, of which the Ultimate Fighting Championship is but one event in a universe of many on a global scale. ...
Posted by Benoit on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 01:29:00 PST

Doin Some Drinkin Here

I feel good! Yeah!  [insert picture of rowdy, vulgar midwestern man in a bar]I've recently taken up Heineken as my beer of choice.  Than ad Bueweiser E.  My first instinct is to correct...
Posted by Benoit on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 02:05:00 PST

On The Bus The Other Day

Two days ago actually, two women, whom one could infer would former drug addicts from their conversation (I couldn't help but overhear), were talking and one goes,"God ain't a myth, crack is a myth."&...
Posted by Benoit on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:35:00 PST

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS

My students @ Lane Technical College Prepatory won the Varsity City Championship on a 2-1 decision over the acclaimed team of Brandon Hamilton and Jerome Wade of Morgan Park.  Here's a picture of...
Posted by Benoit on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:10:00 PST

Research Paper!!!!

    An 11-12 page double-spaced research paper is due at the end of this second round of Being and Time this quarter.  It really is a remarkable book.  I feel like a fool for ...
Posted by Benoit on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:13:00 PST