Friday, April 6, 2012

www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/04/06/books/20120406-BEATS-12.html

Humility

"The earth trembles and quakes with laughter at the arrogance of a ground that, in the span of an instant, can suffer obliteration."

Flaxman (2012), p.152.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

"Just as i learn to like ___, it seems that I can never reach ___.  There is the wall far above, the horizonless sky extends deeply and incongruently across my soul."

Eris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_%28mythology%29
"We are reminded of the grand finale of the Sophist: difference is displaced, division turns back on itself and begins to function in reverse."

Difference and Repetition, p. 68.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

"For, the panic subsiding more and more every day, it will daily be seen how it originated; confidence will be more than restored; there will be a reaction; from the stock's descent its rise will be higher than from no fall, the holders trusting themselves to fear no second fate."

Herman Melville, The Confidence Man, p.27.

Friday, January 27, 2012

"The eternal return transmutes the negative: it turns the heavy into something light, it makes the negative cross over into affirmation, it makes negation a power of affirming."

Nietzsche and Philosophy, p. 81.

Friday, December 30, 2011

"If becoming is the power of the false, then the good, the generous, the noble is what raises the false to the nth power or the will to power to the level of artistic becoming."

"A cinematographic mutation occurs when abberations of movement take on their independence; that is, when the moving bodies and movements lose their invariants."

- Cinema 2, 137-138.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

"Differential calculus...is consequently a basic and real means of exploration of the reality of existence."

- Deleuze, from seminar of 22 April 1980. 

"We must not see mathematical metaphors in all these expressions such as 'singular and distinctive points' or 'adjunct fields'...These are categories of of the dialectical Idea, extensions of the differential calculus (mathesis universalis)...corresponding to the Idea in all its domains."

- Difference and Repetition, 190.

Via Daniel W. Smith.

"Breaking your double helix, and now the shit is single"

via http://rapgenius.com/Company-flow-8-steps-to-perfection-lyrics#note-339711