Khitkhite Buri > Recent Status Updates

In which I learn (sensational stuff the wary) that Deleuze and Guattari are heavily dog-eared by the Israeli miltitary - "In the IDF we often use the term 'to smooth out space'." - instrumental in the attack on Nablus and Balata.

urgh. Footnotes > endnotes for the sick reader, Federici.

What are the founding or paradigm-shifting texts on museum studies? I'd really appreciate any help.

I'm apparently taking a class on this in less than a week. Wut. R-E-S-T-A-R-T-I-N-G.

The central question: annotations or no annotations?

"Jews, indeed, were the very epitome of Simmel's strangers" Off-putting statement no18 gah

Vindicianus was a successful court doctor (which is hardly surprising, seeing that he was adept at curing indigestion and avoided painful surgery

I asked for recommendations on the bits about eternity and now I'm reading about saltwater baths and an heiress.

http://www.partitionmuseum.org/
(to counter the last update)

"If modern Indian historians or political scientists could similarly distance themselves from 1947 ... we might have seen moves towards the institutionalisation of the memory of Partition, in the way of Holocaust museums, Vietnam memorials and reconstructions of Hiroshima. As it happens, given the history of the subcontinent since 1947, this has not been possible."

"The civilising state may use ‘force’ – in war, in counterinsurgency operations or simply expanding the frontiers of production and profit – but it never, apparently, uses ‘violence’. It is as though ‘real’ violence, of which the ‘riot’ might be described as the quintessential form, lies outside the domain of the state, outside progress and history"

The question is how much Leo Strauss will I have to read for class before they welcome me. Should I be glad it isn't his student, Allan Bloom?

Soon I'll become one of those pol-lit bros whose greatest achievements are MUNs.

Either Cripps is the loudest anti-communal voice or Jalal's account is the imperialist's apology.