January 2012
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Jan 22nd
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“In some cases, viewers may find the over the top version of a character more...”
– Source: TV Tropes, “Flanderization”.
Jan 21st
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“Un mimosín sería -y parafraseo ahora la ya citada definición de troll de la...”
– Ignacio Echevarría, Trolls y Mimosines. 
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“La implantación en un paisaje, el arraigo al Lugar sin el cual el universo se...”
– Levinas, Difícil libertad (1963).
Jan 12th
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“Bergson is hardly quoted now. We have forgotten the major philosophical event he...”
– Levinas “The Other, Utopia, and Justice.” A conversation with the journal Autrement, No. 102, November 1988.
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December 2011
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Dec 29th
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“Gen Xers and Millennials want a lifestyle closer to Friends and Seinfeld (that...”
– Christopher Leinberger. Source: The Infrastructurist (2009) (a falta de frijolitos, explíquelo con series)
Dec 29th
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November 2011
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Nov 11th
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“In my opinion, Asimov’s Foundation trilogy seems to have had a much wider and...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 210.
Nov 5th
“Do you have plans for what you’ll do when and if you become a ghost? No....”
– Mike Mignola Goes Bump in the Night
Nov 3rd
October 2011
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Oct 31st
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“The totality in which a thinking being is situated is not a pure and simple...”
– Emmanuel Levinas, “The I and the Totality”.
Oct 28th
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Oct 12th
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Oct 12th
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September 2011
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Listenitnumberpi: Molly Nilsson | Dinosaur Tears | from...
Sep 15th
ListenMolly Nilsson - Wounds Itch When They Heal
Sep 15th
“The Art of Memory, as it is described by ancient writers, is a method by which...”
– John Crowley, Little, Big. 
Sep 9th
August 2011
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Aug 30th
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Philip K. Dick to the FBI, September 2, 1974 →
I am enclosing the letterhead of Professor Darko Suvin, to go with information and enclosures which I have sent you previously. This is the first contact I have had with Professor Suvin. Listed with him are three Marxists whom I sent you information about before, based on personal dealings with them: Peter Fitting, Fredric Jameson, and Franz Rottensteiner who is Stanislaw Lem’s official...
Aug 30th
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Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans →
by Stanislaw Lem. Science Fiction Studies, march 1975. The peculiarities of Dick’s worlds arise especially from the fact that in them it is waking reality which undergoes profound dissociation and duplication. Sometimes the dissociating agency consists in chemical substances (of the hallucinogenic type—thus in The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch); sometimes in “cold-sleep...
Aug 30th
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Read the Hugo Award winners online
Ted Chiang, The Life Cycle of Software Objects (novella) Allen M. Steele, The Emperor of Mars (novelette) Mary Robinette Kowal For Want of a Nail (short story)
Aug 22nd
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“Ahora el público científico serio le daba crédito y confianza. Eso dispensaba al...”
– De Viaje al fin de la noche, Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
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“Cuando iba a abastecerse al Mercado de las Pulgas, se pasaba tres días sin...”
– de Viaje al fin de la noche, Louis-Ferdinand Céline. 
Aug 5th
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“I wish I remembered the guy’s name, but at one point I pulled up records...”
– Adrian Lamo interviewed by Cnet (June 2009)
Aug 4th
July 2011
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Sally Whitwell and the music of Philip Glass. An...
Nicolás Díaz Why have you chosen Phillip Glass for your first solo album? It was actually my producer’s suggestion that I record music by Philip Glass.  To be frank, I hadn’t much experience of his music before then - In terms of minimalists, I’d played much more music by Steve Reich, Michael Nyman and Arvo Pärt.  However, through researching Glass’s ouvre and getting right...
Jul 30th
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