Category Quotes

• On the flaws of language

  Language is not a neutral tool with which to pick up and examine the world; it is partial, imperfect, and contingent. Language speaks us as much as we speak it; we have an imperfect grasp on the words we use, which in turn have an imperfect grasp on the world we speak about, and although our words can shape the world, they do so crudely, crushing or concealing complexity and nuance.

  Posted Aug 30, 10:57 AM · Author ribbit

• On clowns

  [The clown] is a fantastic being, one possessed of an alternate biology, a biology that can withstand blows to the head by hammers and bricks that would be deadly for any mere human, and the clown can sustain falls that would result in serious injury for the rest of us.

  Posted Aug 30, 10:52 AM · Author ribbit

• Ghost in the machine, glitch

  In science fiction, ghosts in machines always appear as malfunctions, glitches, interruptions in the normal flow of things,” writes cultural theorist Janne Vanhanen. “Through a malfunction, a glitch, we get a fleeting glimpse of an alien intelligence at work.

  Posted Aug 29, 01:25 PM · Author ribbit

• death

  one day you will find out about Death with a capital D, and at that moment, in the unlikely event that she gives you time to do so, you will understand the real difference between the relative and the absolute, between full and empty, between still alive and no longer alive.

  Posted Aug 29, 01:22 PM · Author ribbit