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Jean Baudrillard
“The feminine seduces because it is never where it thinks it is, or where it thinks itself.”
Jean Baudrillard, Seduction

Michel Foucault
“The ideal is not to build tools but to make bombs, because when you have used up your own bombs, nobody else can use them. And I must add that my dream, my personal dream, is not exactly to build bombs, because I don't like to kill people. I would like to write book-bombs - that means books that are useful just at the moment in which they are written or read by people. Then they would disappear. Books would be such that they would disappear soon after they have been read or used. Books should be a kind of bomb and nothing else. After the explosion, people could be reminded that the books made a very beautiful fireworks display. In later years historians and others could recount that such and such a book was useful as a bomb and was beautiful as fireworks.”
Michel Foucault

G.E.M. Anscombe
“Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.”
G.E.M. Anscombe, Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics
tags: p-208

Gaston Bachelard
“To sum up, while we do not seek to instruct the reader, we should feel rewarded for our efforts if we can persuade him to practice an exercise at which we are a master: to laugh at oneself. No progress is possible in the acquisition of objective knowledge without this self-critical irony.”
Gaston Bachelard, The Psychoanalysis of Fire

Michel Foucault
“What I want to do is not the history of solutions, and that's the reason why I don't accept the word 'alternative'. I would like to do genealogy of problems, of problématiques. My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do.”
Michel Foucault

233 ¡ POETRY ! — 22513 members — last activity Jul 15, 2026 03:32PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read ...more
121080 Divine Comedy + Decameron — 267 members — last activity Nov 07, 2020 01:07PM
This group is for those interested in reading either or both Dante's Divine Comedy or Boccaccio's Decameron in 2014. Each read will be non-concurrent ...more
124430 Finnegans Wake Grappa — 140 members — last activity Nov 24, 2025 01:59AM
Lotts hab funn at Finnegans wake!! Here Comes Everybody!! Alle Laffing Prettee!!!
97302 The BURIED Book Club — 956 members — last activity Feb 27, 2026 06:22PM
TODAY BOOKS ARE NOT BURNED. THEY ARE BURIED. WE SHALL UNEARTH THEM.
1065390 The Obscure Reading Group — 203 members — last activity Sep 20, 2024 04:19PM
July 2024 update: This group is going on hiatus due to low participation in recent discussions. Like a phoenix, however, it reserves the right to fly ...more
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