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“Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.”
― The Administration of Fear
― The Administration of Fear
“Programmes such as KYC and AML are proceeding on a 35 year programme to reduce money’s function from supporting an open society to enabling mass surveillance and control by means of centrally determined notions of suspicion.”
― Identity Cycle
― Identity Cycle
“The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_.”
― Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
― Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
“The contemporary sedentary is someone who feels at home everywhere, thanks to cellphones, and the nomad is someone who does not feel at home anywhere, someone who is excluded, ostracized.”
― The Administration of Fear
― The Administration of Fear
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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
Divine Comedy + Decameron
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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
Ovid's Metamorphoses and Further Metamorphoses
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To read the Metamorphoses of Ovid, in any of the many translations (or the original), and at whatever speed it takes, with three goals in mind: 1. To ...more
¡ POETRY !
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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
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