#sensumpan

[apbajs]

You are a 'pretty people'.

shit daaaang thank you

[rareandradiant-maiden]

Do you record any kind of texts as audiotexts, in English, Yiddish or other languages?

I do not. I don’t speak Yiddish, and I hugely prefer text to audio for almost any sort of information recall or knowledge.

[rareandradiant-maiden]

"(although did you mean to send this to me? if so i am curious why (you don’t have to tell me))" I like to ask questions and I often do it by spontaneous associations I have. I read "flesh and bone" in the quote from "West Wind" you've had on the blog. And I associated this with the lyrics and the song Personal Jesus. So I wondered how you would find it. Thank you for your thorough/earnest answer.

ah, thanks for your answer. i actually really enjoyed the whole interaction, and thank you for the glimpse into your head!

[rareandradiant-maiden]

Do you like the song "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode?

i’m procrastinating revision so i’m gonna live-record my reactions to this song for you personally (although did you mean to send this to me? if so i am curious why (you don’t have to tell me))

- the title has put me off a little for obvious reasons

- i don’t really like the rushing effect ti starts with, personally, it’s a bit too intense for me

- i am a big fan of the sound of the strong guitars that’s happening and the tone of voice, sort of… aggressive-assertive 

- not a fan of the lyrics, again for obvious reasons

- the music video is pretty with moments of hilarity

- overall a solid 7/10 where 10 is a revelation, an epiphany, i’m selling all my stuff to become a musician who performs only this song, and 0 is an unpleasant experience

[outdoor-anarchy]

Bookish Asks: Question number three please.

3:Where's your favorite place to read?

During the summer my mom and I make our back deck all cute. Like, I grow a bunch of potted herbs and bright flowers, and sometimes make those peanut butter-pinecone/seed bird-feeders so all of the pretty little birds hang out around it and sing. And anyways, have these light blue second hand lounging chairs that our neighbors gave us, and I love to lay out on 'em, read, and soak up the sunshine for hours. So, I'd have to say there!

[scarcelyodd]

Do you like wet sand at the beach?

Yes...?  I'm trying to figure out the context for this question and failing miserably.

[epistemicviolence]

Do you think skyskrapers are deliberately phallic symbols or unconsciously an expression of male's urge to erect things and take a stand (while e.g. defying dialectical questioning or deconstruction of fixed constructions)?

I'm not sure how I feel about all this Freudian/Lacanian psychobabble tbh I just don't know enough about it to really say anything meaningful or certain

I've actually been trying to interpret the gender theory of Judith Butler from an analytic perspective (or at least devoid of Lacan and Derrida, Foucault i can chill with) recently but it's difficult

[epistemicviolence]

Do you like any veils of uncertainty (e.g. that by Buchanan/Brennan) or of ignorance (e.g. Rawls')? Greetings. Or the band?

Sorry, I haven't responded to these, I've been too busy to do anything but mindless reblog things, lol

I'm honestly not familiar with Buchanan/Brennan's veil of uncertainty. TBH I'm pretty ignorant of most of the political philosophy canon, or at least I've only engaged with much of it superficially

I only know the premise of Rawls' veil of ignorance/original position, and it sounds like liberal, ahistorical, acontextual hogwash to me. Or at least the modern liberal conclusions he draws from the original position do not follow.

I contend that if we grant him his original position from behind a veil of ignorance, and found a society in which we all agree on principles while deprived of information about our hypothetical circumstances, we get anarchism rather than liberalism. At this point Rawls and I would disagree on the descriptive aspect of whether anarchy can be sustained, whether it is chaotic, etc. But market anarchism beginning from an original position in which capital has not been unjustly monopolized and in which each has equal credit and by extension access to the means of production is perfectly just. 

It just doesn't justify using government to rectify the unjust origins of our inequitable state of affairs.