violently unhappy |
Eric Hobsbawm:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7677000/7677683.
stm
I bought a copy of "Capital," an abridged edition (Oxford World's Classics). I don't know when I will finish to read it, ...
Posted by yasuo on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:51:00 PST |
when cornered, you become increasingly adorable |
Quotes of today:
When you're young and walk down the street and look eccentric, that's cute. But when you're older, they're scared of you. Get to the other side of the street! The difference between t...
Posted by yasuo on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:16:00 PST |
where our ideosyncracies will meet |
About a month ago, I wanted to have another white dress shirt in my modest wardrobe. I ordered it--it was made-to-measure--in a department store in Yokohama during lunch break. I'd never had...
Posted by yasuo on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:45:00 PST |
rush summary of chapter 4 |
In his chapter 4 (of Violence) Slavoj Zizek defends atheism as a European legacy, and criticizes liberal multiculturalists' attitude towards Muslims as patronizing. Such liberal multiculturalists clai...
Posted by yasuo on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:20:00 PST |
yesterdays newspaper |
On Tuesday, The Nikkei Shimbun, a Japanese leading business newpaper, distributed the special issue about Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, AIG, and plummeting share prices, for free, infront of Akihaba...
Posted by yasuo on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:56:00 PST |
"I should say we are," he said |
Life is unfair. And how life is treated is inconsistent.
Lehman Brothers finally crashed. Though I don't know much about financial things and my assets are too small to be affected by it, I wonder why...
Posted by yasuo on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:36:00 PST |
reduction |
Though I said Zizek is relatively easy to follow, I have to admit it is difficult for me to paraphrase his words into my own words, let alone summarizing:
In chapter 2, he analyzes today's post-politi...
Posted by yasuo on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:27:00 PST |
the sandman has come from too far away |
Zizek's language is relatively easy to follow for this kind of writings. Though I planned to summarize every chapter of the book here, today I won't. The following chapters are more interesting than t...
Posted by yasuo on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:42:00 PST |
run run run |
Of course, when I beckon fleeing to Switzerland that time might be the hippiest, I refer to the people who gathered in Ascona. One of my dance choreograph teachers Masami Kuni (1908-2006), who us...
Posted by yasuo on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:36:00 PST |
learn, learn, and learn! |
I've been reading just the beginning of Slavoj Zizek "Violence." While the world appears to be full of violence, what we should do is not reacting to those tragic events surfacing, but analysing what ...
Posted by yasuo on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:56:00 PST |
