January 2012
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“In some cases, viewers may find the over the top version of a character more...”
– Source: TV Tropes, “Flanderization”.
“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).
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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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“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)
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November 2011
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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.
“Do you have plans for what you’ll do when and if you become a ghost?
No....”
– Mike Mignola Goes Bump in the Night
October 2011
6 posts
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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”.
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September 2011
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itnumberpi: Molly Nilsson | Dinosaur Tears | from...
Molly Nilsson - Wounds Itch When They Heal
“The Art of Memory, as it is described by ancient writers, is a method by which...”
– John Crowley, Little, Big.
August 2011
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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...
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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...
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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)
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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.
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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)
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...