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[Kyriakos]

@Angst

 

[Angst]

@Angst

Alright, four minutes, so I'll watch it.

Like in the Danish writing academy, we sometimes have visits from prominent authors where the teachers then practically interview them over their texts instead of us doing the normal text readings according to the principles there. I always was bored out of my mind during these visits.

But it's 4 minutes.

 

[Kyriakos]

Alright, four minutes, so I'll watch it.

Like in the Danish writing academy, we sometimes have visits from prominent authors where the teachers then practically interview them over their texts instead of us doing the normal text readings according to the principles there. I always was bored out of my mind during these visits.

But it's 4 minutes.

I was happening to visit the location (since it was the cemetery where Kafka was buried )

 

[Kyriakos]

Seems to be that Foucault has very negative views about the idea of some type of innate means of organization - Chomsky mentions such means to account for how a child will at least have the ability to identify a language as something which can be used; the mere existence of language around the child would not be able to lure the child if such an innate ability was not there.
Foucault, around the mark of the half hour, even says that in his view it isn't evident why one would have to look for such abilities in the mind, instead of looking for them in various external (physical or social) structures.
This does strike me as odd, since I was under the impression that the debate about covert relation of empirical data to innate procedures (without which they wouldn't be picked up, and furthermore they are being fused with innate data while picked up) was pretty much over. No need to resurrect Hume or the empiricism vs idealism argument.

After that - at least what is shown in the video - the discussion is about the idea of justice and whether it is innate (not dependent on social reality, such as existence of classes) or itself only a product of the social reality. Here, again, Chomsky takes the first position and Foucault the second one. But imo Foucault's position is untenable since even if social reality would change and become class-less, the residue of the idea of injustice would not perish, since no idea does, and therefore the idea itself would not require empirical data to maintain it (despite, arguably, not being as easy to trigger as with things as they now stand).
There is a simpler way to present this, and ultimately it goes down to a comment on what Plato said (having Socrates say it), that people are unjust because they do not know their own good; the success of a will to power can seem very good for oneself as long as they maintain some relevant class of vigor needed to perpetuate the inherently unstable system of a power-trip - but not longer than that.

 

[Ferocitus]

^I can't remember it in that detail, but the tone of the debate was wonderful.

Journey to the Microcosmos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBbnbBWJtwsf0jLGUwX5Q3g
Dozens of beautiful videos about tiny creatures.

 

[barkerV]

^I can't remember it in that detail, but the tone of the debate was wonderful.

Journey to the Microcosmos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBbnbBWJtwsf0jLGUwX5Q3g
Dozens of beautiful videos about tiny creatures.

Wow. The shooting is excellent. Added to the list for viewing. Thanks for the recommendation

 

[EgonSpengler]

This was neat, if a bit overlong. I don't know any Russian, but I couldn't help wondering if this guy was pronouncing "Kharkovchanka" properly. Naturally, I was thinking that these real-world vehicles should serve as inspiration for some kind of exploration PC game, where the player can build and outfit their own little mobile base. Could be either something post-apocalyptic, like the movie Damnation Alley or a sequel to Metro 2033, or maybe taking place on another planet, like an adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars. I seem to remember one of the characters in Red Mars spending some time traveling with a little 'mobile village' of Mars explorers in a "land train" of big crawlers. I didn't know about the Kharkovchankas when I read that book, but while I was watching this video, I was thinking that Robinson had to have seen or read about them.

 

[Kyriakos]

Well. Well well well well well.

 

[thetrooper]

Poor bratchny Alex

 

[Kyriakos]

I think the "Singing in the Rain" song wasn't a good idea to include - it's not in the book either. Moreover, it is dumb to have Alex realize he is in the estate of one of his previous victims, yet still sing the song (and be promptly identified).

At least Julian looks like he could break Alex in half

 

[EgonSpengler]

Went on a bit of a Nightwish rampage. My neighbors may be a little cross with me, but so be it.

The 2012 performance of "Ghost Love Score" in Beunos Aires, Argentina, remains my favorite, but I've probably posted that at least twice already. I know a lot of people also like the Wacken Open Air 2013 performance, so I thought I'd post Tempere, Finland, 2015, which I've just listened to for the first time (added bonus: I now know how to pronounce "Tampere"). I don't know if Emppu is playing his solo in a lower key than usual or it's just the recording, but it feels "warmer" than usual. At first, I thought the little island peninsula that sticks out from the stage seems like it must be annoying for the audience, until Floor walks out for the big finale, then I got it. And I love her eye makeup here.; knd of a Siouxsie Sioux thing.

First time hearing "Sahara", Tampa, Florida. Not sure when this was.

I can't remember if I've posted "Romanticide" from Wacken Open Air 2013 before. She's just showing off now. She's got me wrapped around her little finger and she knows it. Hey, whaddayagonnado?

 

[Takhisis]

 

[red_elk]

Little tits!

"Here's Johnny" moment at 6:50

 

[Kyriakos]

Those birds seem to eat a lot...
I also like the irony that they would become fully exposed if their parent didn't press them down, having a pavlovian reaction to the sound.

 

[Narz]

 

[shadowplay]

 

[EgonSpengler]

Russian woman sings "Sober" by Tool in a karaoke contest in a shopping mall.

• For 28 years I've been laboring under the apparent misconception that this song only spoke to guys. Not only is the singer here a woman who clearly knows and loves the song, backwards and forwards, there's at least one other woman in the audience singing along with her.
  
• Just judging by her appearance, I'd guess this woman wasn't even born yet when this song came out. I feel like the way young adults and teenagers experience culture now must be completely different from when I was those ages, if only because they have everything ever made at the press of a button. I remember a couple of years ago being surprised to overhear some kids on a bus talking about how much they like The Goonies, but maybe I should'nt have been surprised.
  
• I guess I never thought about it before, but maybe I shouldn't be surprised that Russians are into grunge. I went to high school with a bunch of Russians, and like half of them were metalheads and/or punks.
• The saxophone works for this song. Hunh. Never would've thought to add that, myself.

 

[Ferocitus]

Showed my son an old "How to improve cricket" vid.

 

[Arakhor]

 

[Berzerker]

Tour de Farce