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Jorge Luis Borges - 'On Acquiring an Encyclopedia.'

I share a poem a day. Today, Jorge Luis Borges' 'On Acquiring an Encyclopedia'....

Free money - 75 Free ICO Authorship Tokens, link in post

The ATS, an ERC-20 token based on the Ethereum technology, is a unit of exchange on a new Blockchain based book publishing system. Authors, publishers and trans...

Dorothy Parker - Resumé

I share a poem a day. Today, Dorothy Parker's 'Resumé'. Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses giv...

Bolano - ‘The Third Reich’

Great news for Bolano fans. Alicia Scherson has announced she will adapt Roberto Bolaño’s ‘The Third Reich’ (El Tercer Reich). "Teaming up with producer Isabel ...

Emily Dickinson - Lost

I share a poem a day. Today, Emily Dickinson's “I lost a World the other day". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Dt5ScxdMU...

Roberto Bolano - Romantic Dogs

I share a poem a day. Today, Roberto Bolano's Romantic Dogs (Los Perros Romanticos). Back then, I’d reach the age of twenty and I was crazy. I’d lost a country ...

Cul-de-sac Hommage

These often overlooked urban sites pose interesting poetic interventions in the smoothness of the urban fabric. Sometimes they are planned and calculated, but a...

Henri Cartier-Bresson Birthday

I’m an anarchist — anarchism is an ethic, its a way of behaving. Henri Cartier-Bresson. Born on this day, 1908. Henri Cartier-Bresson was a celebrated photograp...

Emily Dickinson - A Spider sewed at Night

I share a poem a day. Today, Emily Dickinson....

The Eclipsing of Steve Bannon

Text by Sam Kriss LIKE THE DINOSAUR OF THE LAST SPLIT-SECOND, rearing up from a half-chewed swamp to watch a falling star skid down through the sky, like any ot...

Stunning Solar Eclipse Timelapse

Gorgeous timelapse of a total solar eclipse in 2015 over Spitzbergen, Norway https://vimeo.com/122795016...

Critical Books Recently Published (July 2017)

A number of new exciting critical books that came out last month. Please add others in the comment section. “Seen as a key figure in the critical study of white...

Waiting for the Barbarians - Constantine Cavafy

I share a poem a day. Today, Constantine Cavafy. Translated title: Waiting for the Barbarians Original title: Περιμένοντας τους Bαρβάρους https://www.youtube.co...

Politics of Crypto

Quartz published a great report on one of the biggest Bitcoin mining operations in the world. It is located in Inner Mongolia, PR China. People in the region mo...

France's Next Great Philosopher

A quiz show on France's Next Great Philosopher featuring an 'interesting' panel... From existential comics...

The Panther - Rainer Maria Rilke

I share a poem a day. Today, Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated title: The Panther Original title: Der Panther https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahBuiGkm1E From the m...

BREAKING: Van hits crowds in Ramblas tourist area in Barcelona, Spain

https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/DC2A/production/97426365still1.jpg "A van has ploughed into crowds in Barcelona's Ramblas tourist area." More at t...

The alt-right is drunk on bad readings of Nietzsche. The Nazis were too.

Why is it that the alt- and the old- right can't read Nietzsche properly? Is it intellectual laziness, deliberate malevolence? "The alt-right renounces Christia...

Trump's links to the Mafia

No surprises here.... "A bid by Donald Trump to build Sydney’s first casino was rejected 30 years ago after police expressed concerns about his links to the maf...

Epicurus and Buddha on Cheese and Hedonism

Source: dead philosophers...