This video here shows why the man was a genius: though it is true that when we sit down and hear a piece of music for the first time, or when a piece is first ever recorded or played, the composer’s intentions should be followed to the letter to show his interpretation. However, after a few hundred years, the point is to invigorate the old with new interpretation, examinations of possibilities, playing with the piece! We cannot all try and aim at the one true moment of recording a piece, but rather the variations and multiplicities we can find by not being so anal about the composer’s intentions

auf0nddemoi asked: That was a very thoughtful response to the picture of the American soldier and Filipina girl. Sometimes I get so caught up in the crimes against humanity being committed that I forget that the human committing them is still there, and can be changed. And that I have the power to either rant about it, or actually use my influence(what little I have) to end the injustice.

Thanks! Part of the reason I love Levinas so much, and why I feel like I can do something useful by studying him, is that through him I’ve come to realize how important it is to acknowledge we are all overflowing every limitation and every simplification we have of one another. I really do believe that the only way to change the injustice we see in our world is not to attack people but to study and debate their ideas, to never reduce people to anything but being their own selves and that change comes through conversation with them, not condemnation carte blanche of them.

Anonymous asked: I hope you're okay

Yes I am, to whomever is concerned if anyone!

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eriksatie:

Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. At her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.

I think it’s really quite beautiful to watch such real emotion captured on film… Like this is a woman who has had people violate her and cut her and stick a gun in her face while she remained a statue, but seeing her former lover…shattered her entirely. Watch til the end…she keeps trying but take a while to recompose herself for the exhibit I love it, and I love how he tries to be so strong and silent but the moment she reaches out her hands he jumps at them and tries to talk

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Dear idiot: since the beginning of medicine as a practice, healing the wounded (thou shalt do no harm) has been central to the way doctor’s engage with patients: they treat them (Hippocratic Oath). Though we may live in a messed up world where people can go bankrupt paying to be treated, medicine is first there to help then to be paid for. That you, Donald Trump, imagine that the first question about the suspect in the Boston should be ‘is ObamaCare going to bring him back to life’ shows a fundamental neglect for medicine and its entire profession. Further it is because he is now a part of the multi-billion dollar prison industry that the suspect will get healthcare, regardless of ObamaCare helping pre-existing medical conditions or students who need health insurance from their parents. This is not a matter of health care: it’s a matter of your own irrelevance and stupidity.

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attackoftheswag:

Marine pretending to cheat off a 4th graders math exam. - Phillippines

imperialism

no but this imperialism is cute!!!!

What the fuck are US marines doing in the Philippines…. Get out of there. Get out of everywhere. Go home. No one wants you on their soil.

^^^^ Exactly.

Oh thank god I wasn’t the only one who when I saw this photo circulating around my dash plenty of times this morning how disturbing this photo is.

Like what someone mentioned above how the ever fuckin hell is imperialism ever cute?

Someone explain how this is cute. Especially with the problems of sexualization, fetish, and prostitution among and toward Filipin@s especially around the old U.S. military bases and where U.S. marine magazines actually support the sexualization by writing articles on the Philippines as an exotic, tropical, country with scantily clad women. Then coming to the country to find a Filipina girlfriend and trophy wife to take back with them to the states.

How has U.S. imperialism in the Philippines, which is the country where the U.S. became a new imperialist country when they colonized us, stole our freedom from Spain, called and still do call us insurgents for trying to fight them off our lands after they supposedly “defeated Spain” in a mock war in Intramuros where the Spaniards just surrendered to the Americans because despite they knew how they lost to the Filipin@s fighting them outside those walls they didn’t want to admit defeat to the people they colonized. How in the Philippine-American War shortly after they killed thousands of innocent people men, women, children, and the elderly. Who burned villages, called us “g**ks”, where that racist slur originated from, and “little black n*ggers*. Where they did torture methods such as the water cure torture, and when they set up schools with white Americans to come to the Philippines and force them to learn English, often reprimanding the children if they spoke their native language, and writing textbooks that hid the atrocities done to us so they would make it like the U.S. was “our savior”, which was one reason why we were colonized anyway because they wanted to “save us from ourselves”. And so many other shit that the U.S. has done, still does.

You may find this picture cute but that isn’t cute. 

You know what I see? I just see a photo that supports the problem of the U.S. military in the Philippines and hell, all of Asia and the Pacific region really.

Let me make this clear.

We. Don’t. Want. The. U.S. In. The. Philippines.

They have done plenty of shit to us in the past and still do.

Just get the hell out of our country and the rest of Asia.

imperialismo IBAGSAK

capitalism with a human face

OR, how about we calm down and realize multiple things at work: there is a man and a girl, the man being a regular human being like you or me who is being playful with this girl, like any older brother would to his younger sister, or an uncle to his niece. Then, we can look at the underlying discourse of US Imperialism, and feel some disgust at it: yes, there are soldiers in a class room in what appears to be a form of propaganda or spreading good will, but don’t miss out on the human beings there too. That man is not the sin of the US Imperial policy, that girl is not every single abused Philippine girl; in fact, that they can only be seen as representatives of a GOOD force and an EVIL force to someone who reads this misses out the true power of discourse. Discourses, power structures, the real ‘evil’ that we seek in the world (globalism, rape culture, corporate crony capitalism) are not those like this soldier who are on the ground level playing around with a girl: it is our political messages that American Imperialism is the way to go, it is the economic model we accept with every transaction that says we should exploit those who cannot ask for their labour to be valuable, it is the way we engage the world that must be blamed and brought to light. The way to change rape culture is not to look at a man and blame his penis for every woman’s abuse: it is to recognize the abuse suffered at the hands of gendering human beings and to overcome notions of gender/sex linked to power. The way to overcome US Imperialism and the Philippine occupation is not to dehumanize the soldier in this moment and take away his humanity: we must recognize the self-evidency American foreign policy holds in its decision making in the world, it is letting political and lobbying groups rule over policy making, and it is passive citizenries not caring for what their soldiers are asked to do abroad. This is a man playing around with a girl. That is cute, because it is human. Take away the humanity of either, and we’ve already lost the fight to change the world: blame is easy when you don’t have to change anything because it’s someone else’s fault. I’m not going to deny in the slightest the abuses or problems of US Imperialism, but I just want to say: they are both human beings

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spookybrucey:

You will have to excuse the mess, you know ghosts, they never tidy up.

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Looking too long in a mirror, to the point where you can feel your own eyes on your body, is when you truly become an object, when you most feel Dasein, being-there. The ontology of the human, the sight of onself in the mirror, terrifies oneself by revealing our finitude, our being locked into being a monad, being one.

In the face of the Other, however, you most feel your subjectivity (subject-ness); you are not looking at yourself in finitude, but feeling yourself as infinitely possible and proud of your own-ness.

Sleep scares me.

Not sleep itself, mind you; that is fine, I am resting and at peace, restoring my body as I pass the night away.

No - it is that process of going to sleep which scares me when I have to face it. I lie my body down, I close my eyes, and suddenly it is just me. All that there is is me, and my awareness of handing over “me”, the being who is saying “I…” or “Me…”, into the emptiness of sleep. (In Heidegger, to relinquish my Dasein)

To go from consciousness to non-consciousness is a handing off of consciousness itself; how can I will my no-longer-being-willing (how can I will to not will anymore)? It is a logical incoherency, and I must actually be physically ready for sleep in order to fall asleep. My mind cannot take me there, for so long as I am thinking it I am not able to stop thinking and so give up consciousness. In a sense, then, sleep is a violence to the will - it is external to my permission/control of my mental faculties, it is unwillable.

How very much like death, then.