a funny LA Weekly article about Keith Schofield, ‘the rocket scientist’ of drug-related, sex-positive music videos.
(via keithschofield)
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Mar 12
Mar 10
» Talking Your Way to Happiness: Well-being Is Related to Having Less Small Talk and More Substantive Conversations
Am tempted to say ‘well, duh!’, but I guess it’s worth being reminded just how important it is to have regular social interaction.
PhD students take note: don’t isolate yourself!
…Greater well-being was related to spending less time alone and more time talking to others: The happiest participants spent 25% less time alone and 70% more time talking than the unhappiest participants. In addition to the difference in the amount of social interactions happy and unhappy people had, there was also a difference in the types of conversations they took part in: The happiest participants had twice as many substantive conversations and one third as much small talk as the unhappiest participants.
These findings suggest that the happy life is social and conversationally deep rather than solitary and superficial. The researchers surmise that — though the current findings cannot identify the causal direction — deep conversations may have the potential to make people happier. They note, “Just as self-disclosure can instill a sense of intimacy in a relationship, deep conversations may instill a sense of meaning in the interaction partners.
“ A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing fiction. The international women’s movements have constructed ‘women’s experience’, as well as uncovered or discovered this crucial collective object. This experience is a fiction and a fact of the most crucial, political kind. Liberation rests on the construction of the consciousness, the imaginative apprehension, of oppression, and so of possibility. The cyborg is a matter of fiction and lived experience that changes what counts as women’s experience in the late twentieth century. This is a struggle over life and death, but the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion.
— Donna J. Haraway in A Cyborg Manifesto (via andrewdornon)
Ha! So true, so true.
Beyond all the inherent superficialities, there was the task of decoding profile subtext. She wondered why she’d ever considered online dating.
(Photo: Dean Kaufman; Dwell, December/January 2007)
A Rhizomic (?) drawing from the second book in the series Capitalism and Schizophrenia; A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guttari. “rhizome” is used to describe theory and research that allows for multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation. It’s above my head but I love the picture.
Mar 07
Car Culture Hurrican - by the Beehive Collective
Mar 06
» Experimental College of the Twin Cities
free classes, open to anyone—“new” ways of organizing education
thanks for reblogging my free school! i’m having lots of fun with it lately. we had a dope organizers’ potluck last night, today i facilitated a very engaging discussion with our Radical Feminisms reading group, and tomorrow i’ll facilitate a discussion group on Militant Research in the Twin Cities.
if you’re interested in organizing a similar kind of free school in your area, let me know and i can hook you up with advice and an ‘EXCO-in-a-box’ customizable version of our website (which allows online class publicity and registration).
“Arise, ye wretched of the university!” - May ‘68 / March ‘10
an explosively colorful mural that combines many wild street styles
My Oscar picks. Go Il Divo!
F’wha!?! Dude, I can’t believe you voted Avatar for best picture! In case you didn’t read Zizek’s scathing critique, you should know that shit’s straight up racist, bourgeois heteronormative, and “superficial Hollywood Marxism.” The Naxalites might put you up against the wall for this counter-revolutionary vote.
But, I agree that it’s a beautiful movie, and I love the inter-species anarcho-communism, especially those cute floaty jellyfish.
» University of Minnesota Rallies for Education Rights March 4
Minneapolis, MN - About 500 union members, students, and faculty, came together for a spirited rally and march here, March 4. Organized by the Chop From The Top Coalition and the Save Our School…
I helped organize this rally and march. We marched hundreds of people chanting through our student union and then we took the streets. Check out the Save Our Schools coalition and our demands. And join our facebook group: The Movement to Reclaim UMN for Education, continuing our struggles beyond March 4th until we take the U back from a rogue administration.
