I’m always struck by these sections in Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil (also impressive is the massive ’stache):
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After having looked long between the philosopher’s lines and fingers, I say to myself: by far the greater part of conscious thinking must still be included among instinctive activities and that goes even for philosophical [...]

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I hadn’t realized this was on YouTube until today — when it went up on Smashingtelly. I used it in two different courses when I was teaching college English. As a seminal (and interesting) piece of cultural criticism, it’s definitely worth watching/reading.

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Q: What is the difference between a Lacanian and an elephant?
A: A Lacanian resituates Freudian concepts in a context that is not biologically determined, while an elephant has a huge trunk.

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This is an interesting article on Ballard’s evil-architecture fetish. I’m amazed that it doesn’t cite Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, but this can be forgiven.

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“[I]f the poststructuralist motif of the ‘death of the subject’ means anything socially, it signals the end of the entrepreneurial and inner-directed individualism, with its “charisma” and its accompanying categorical panoply of quaint romantic values such as that of the “genius” in the first place. Seen thus, the extinction of the ‘great moderns’ is not [...]

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