After Thanksgiving dinner we watched Tao Ruspoli’s Being in the World. 

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a documentary that didn’t piss me off. A nice introduction to Heidegger and a healthy level of skepticism towards our more abstract and over-intellectual look at nature and the world.

So nice to leave MIT for Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday.  

Also,  the movie was inspired by former MIT Prof. Hubert Dreyfus and this semester I’ve been TAing a seminar with Lee Perelman who’s kind of the Greek philosophy expert. I wonder if they know each other and I wonder what the spiritual and non-ivory tower Lee will think of the movie, and if he will agree with its interpretation of Plato. 

It's Lulu in the news!

It's Lulu in the news!

I finally see why singing is like playing violin.

outside of the most direct mimicking violin sounds. 

practicing the shifts, and the slides and the scoops is the same. 

interesting take on the loafer? oxford? what do we even call those

hair and bag of course, and the slightest hint of red lipstick :.)

husna! you could totally rock this.

Imperial feminism is a term used by Pratibha Parmar, a black British filmmaker, to describe the struggles of black women in Britain in the 1970s, when the wave of feminism which emerged rarely captured the experiences of those women. If it did, it was often from a racist perspective. It claims to stand in solidarity with Third World women but in fact perpetuates stereotypes of these cultures as backward through the use of marginalising language and sweeping assumptions.

This form of feminism overlooks the important fact that many of the cultural practices shunned by white feminists have been reinforced by a cycle of colonialism.

Source: Durkhanai Ayubi for The Age

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

Faulkner