Elena Cooks

Basics: Languages: English and German Degrees: BA & MA in German Language and Literature Attitude: Arrogant, curious, hungry, thoughtful, critical Passions: German, film, theater, food, philosophy, literature Location: Albany, NY Employ: CallCenter Operator Beliefs: Buddhist slash Neo-platonist Favorite: Writer: Franz Kafka Actor: Kevin Spacey Playwright: Heinrich von Kleist Philosopher: Plato Psychologist: Erich Fromm Theologian: Krishnamurti Anthropologist: René Girard Poet: e.e. cummings Artistic Period: German Romanticism, German Expressionism, Viennese Secession City: Berlin, Berlin, Berlin Please ask me anything.

[franzkavkas]

“On the handle of Balzac’s walking stick: I overcome all obstacles. On mine: All obstacles overcome me.”

— Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks (via franzkavka)

[syntheticphilosophy]

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

— Plato

[syntheticphilosophy]

“In his recent book “How Fascism Works,” the Yale professor Jason Stanley wrote that patriarchy is “strategically central” to fascist politics, which always seek to cement racial and gender hierarchies. “When women attain positions of political power usually reserved for men — or when Muslims, blacks, Jews, homosexuals, or ‘cosmopolitans’ profit or even share the public goods of a democracy, such as health care — that is perceived as corruption,” he wrote. That sentence encapsulates how Trump, the most corrupt president in American history, sells himself as corruption’s opponent.”

— A Cure for Political Despair Join the women trying to save America from Trump.

[crimson-chains]

BIRB

[ardor-mohr]

Bertolt Brecht

[whiteoleander]

“World, world, I am scared and waver in awe before the wilderness of raw consciousness, because it is all dark and formlessness; and it is real this passion that we feel for forms. But the forms are never real. Are not really there. Are not.”

— Light and Dark, William Bronk

[elenacooks]

Coming to terms with that fact that I'm going to miss you forever.

[dearestvita-deactivated20221122]

“It was you I wanted to hear from and not the all-too-familiar voice from the old grave. Why did it get between us?”

— Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena

[raccooncomic]

48. Bob Bitch II

Words of encouragement. Make room, Bob Ross. 

[ssalrobyul]

[lalocorleone-deactivated2026041]

Twin Peaks Season 3: “A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks” (The Additional Material) dir. Charles de Lauzirika 

[lovelylittleleah]

Collection of my “Shitty Horoscopes”

Credit to: Amrit Brar

[iclassicscollection]

The Lord Of The Rings Tarot Cards by Olga Levina

[foolishmeowing]

She had a woman’s face, the breast, feet, and tail of a lion, and bird wings. She had learned a riddle from the Mousai, and now sat on the steps of the Analytic Philosophy Department where she kept challenging the sophomores with it. The riddle was: How do you structure an ethic with respect to a phenomenal reality demonstratively contrary to a one-way ontological derivation from a Platonic principle of symmetry when you restrict your language to treat subjectivity purely as the instantiation of objectivity? An oracle existed for the AP Department to the effect that they would be free of the Sphinx when they guessed her riddle, so they often convened to search for the meaning, but whenever they came up with the wrong answer, she would seize one of them, and eat him up.

– Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, trans. Aldrich, maybe

[philosophybits]

“Never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.”

— Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

[sadmiyu]

that a look at this good boy playing his favorite game.

[noosphe-re]

“We are the isthmus between the known and the unknown.”

— Ahmed Salman