#hardt

[gruvu]

Hardt on a skateboard.

Oh god, oh god he's absolutely shredding it.

[idk8373737]

Ben: Sir Arut, please take better care of yourself

Deon hardt: No

Lofty Knights: Cap-, We mean Marquis, please take better care of yourself 

Deon hardt: I am fine, there’s no need for your worry

Stigma Primiero: focus on your safety.

Deon hardt: I will… Keep that in mind, Senior Stigma 

[green5quirrel]

After doing some very very lazy research on Nick's last name "Burkhardt", I've got some amusing etymology!

"Burk" is a slang term for a stupid person. (Origin British)

"Hardt" means forested hillside or mountain forest. (Origin German)

I had originally thought of "Hart" in relation to his surname which would've meant "stupid deer". I thought that highly amusing considering Monroe's wolf nature. (And how perceptive of the Blutbad when he chastises Nick!)

"Stupid forest" seems just as endearing though. Definitely notable in the show's obsessive theme of using the heck out of Portland's foliage!

But then I found this on Behind The Name: Derived from the Old German elements burg "fortress" and hart "hard, firm, brave, hardy", or perhaps from the Old English cognate Burgheard. Saint Burkhard was an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon missionary to Germany (a companion of Boniface) who became the first bishop of Würzburg.

Honestly, though. I think Nick had a lot of growing to do before that definition applied. Stupid deer, indeed.

[cogmin213]

[fivefooterangelo]

[bocadosdefilosofia]

<<Indudablemente es cierto que, en concordancia con los procesos de globalización, la soberanía de los Estados-nación, si bien continúa siendo efectiva, ha ido decayendo progresivamente. Los factores primarios de producción e intercambio -el dinero, la tecnología, las personas y los bienes- cruzan cada vez con mayor facilidad las fronteras nacionales, con lo cual el Estado-nación tiene cada vez menos poder para regular esos flujos y para imponer su autoridad en la economía. Ya ni siquiera deberíamos concebir a los Estados-nación más dominantes co- mo autoridades supremas y soberanas, ni fuera de sus fronteras ni tampoco dentro de ellas. La decadencia de la soberanía de los Estados-nación no implica, sin embargo, que la soberanía como tal haya perdido fuerza. Durante todo el tiempo en que se produjeron las transformaciones contemporáneas, tanto los controles políticos y las funciones del Estado como los mecanismos reguladores continuaron gobernando el ámbito de la producción y el intercambio económico y social. Nuestra hipótesis básica consiste en que la soberanía ha adquirido una forma nueva, compuesta por una serie de or- ganismos nacionales y supranacionales unidos por una única lógica de dominio. Esta nueva forma global de soberanía es lo que llamamos “imperio”.>>

Michael Hardt y Antonio Negri: Imperio. Editorial Paidós, págs. 13-14. Barcelona, 2002.

[assaultmystic-archive]

“Spinoza denounced any understanding of humanity as an imperium in imperio. In other words, he refused to accord any laws of nature that were different from the laws of nature as a whole. Donna Haraway carries on Spinoza’s project in our day as she insists on breaking fown the barriers we pose among the human, the animal, and the machine. If we are to conceive of Man as separate from nature, then Man does not exist. This recognition is precisely the death of Man.” - Empire (2001, 91), Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

[freckleocalypse]

Some more MerMay, this time with a pair of dorks

@gruvu