Only a great fool would call the new political science diabolic: it has no attributes peculiar to fallen angels. It is not even Machiavellian, for Machiavelli’s teaching was graceful, subtle, and colorful. Nor is it Neronian. Nevertheless one may say of it that it fiddles while Rome burns. It is excused by two facts: it does not know that it fiddles, and it does not know that Rome burns. — strauss burning weberian modern political science
When I was a babe in philosophy my bottle was filled from the udders of Kant. — CS Peirce, being fuckin’ gross
andrewfishman:

Blake Fall-Conroy, “Minimum Wage Machine,” 2008-2010
This machine allows anyone to work for minimum wage for as long as they like.  Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds, for a total of $7.25 per hour.  This corresponds to minimum wage for a person in New York.  
This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social commentary.  Without a doubt, most people who started operating the machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when realizing just how little they’re earning by turning this mindless crank.  A person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two million people in the United States do every day…at much harder jobs than turning a crank.  This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective argument for raising the minimum wage.  
Visit his website here.

andrewfishman:

Blake Fall-Conroy, “Minimum Wage Machine,” 2008-2010

This machine allows anyone to work for minimum wage for as long as they like.  Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds, for a total of $7.25 per hour.  This corresponds to minimum wage for a person in New York.  

This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social commentary.  Without a doubt, most people who started operating the machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when realizing just how little they’re earning by turning this mindless crank.  A person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two million people in the United States do every day…at much harder jobs than turning a crank.  This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective argument for raising the minimum wage.  

Visit his website here.

youngbadmanbrown:

Wonder Woman: teaching men to respect women since 1941

One should strive above all things to implant in children a strong loathing toward each and every untruth, whatever the pretext under which one might be able to excuse it, as, e.g., toward a maggot or other vermin. They will learn afterward in their lives gradually to accustom themselves to lie just as little as they pick up maggots. They will always be honest and will hate all possible pretense. — Kant’s Lectures on Logic
this is a baby tapir blog now

this is a baby tapir blog now

baby tapir

baby tapir

In so far as a creature can have an experience that represents the world and has correctness conditions, while not possessing the concepts required to specify how the world is represented in the experience, then one can say that the content of the experience or informational state is nonconceptual. — Bermudez & Macpherson, “Nonconceptual Content and the Nature of Perceptual Experience”
“medieval lesbian no.1 in color” by [emstone] on deviantart.

medieval lesbian no.1 in color” by [emstone] on deviantart.

Fodor parodying Wittgenstein

Fodor parodying Wittgenstein

dream haus

dream haus

apihtawikosisan:

solairebee:

carlosbaila:

Marina Abramovic meets Ulay

“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”

Wow, this is so tragically beautiful. Seriously, watch the video.

This moment is so epic and all I can think of is, “it’s like a movie” as though movies create epic moments instead of awkwardly try to reflect them.

Wow.

Stuart Brock on the problem of negative existentials, from “Fictionalism about Fictional Characters” (2002)

We do not want to commit ourselves to a realm of entities that have the property of being nothing merely because we can truly assert that there is nothing in the larder; we do not want to commit ourselves to an individual picked out by the description ‘the average basketball player’ merely because we can truly assert that the average basketball player is over four-foot tall. Semantic theories which treat such claims literally can, of course, be constructed. And as such, they have one advantage over the orthodox theories. Nonetheless, they are to be dismissed out of hand. Ordinary language claims such as these must be paraphrased away.