November 18, 2018
November 17, 2018
Stopping by the ruins
"A bleak landscape stretches out in all directions, broken only by wind-hewed formations of sandstone. A lone traveller wanders this hostile, waterless place, looking for shelter. And then on the horizon, a line of ruined walls appears to him like an apparition. In the heat haze, they seem to hover above the ground. As he gets closer, memories of this place come back to him. Broken tents and pegs, abandoned fire pits, the signs of a camp long-since abandoned: this is the place where he once met the love of his life, now lost forever. As he wanders the ruins, he sees deer and goats grazing where he once walked with his beloved. He sees the plants of the desert bursting up through the tent where they once lay together. As the memories of this place rush back to him, the horizon flashes with thunder and the rain finally comes to the land.
"This scene is a famous one. For centuries, it appeared and reappeared throughout Arabic poetry, and became one of the primary poetic tropes of the Pre-Islamic period and the early days of Islam. It is known as wuquf 'ala al-atlal, or ‘stopping by the ruins’, and today, it has found new life in the work of a generation of artists reacting to the loss of war and state violence across the Middle East."
November 16, 2018
Slavoj Zizek | Cambridge Union
"Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the author of numerous books, including his most recent work, ‘Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Humanity’."
November 14, 2018
November 13, 2018
And the number shall be
"Britain’s biggest employer organisation and main trade union body have sounded the alarm over the prospect of British companies implanting staff with microchips to improve security.
"UK firm BioTeq, which offers the implants to businesses and individuals, has already fitted 150 implants in the UK."
November 09, 2018
League of Legends World Championship Opening Ceremony
"The Opening Ceremony of the 2018 League of Legends World Championship in Incheon, South Korea, presented by Mastercard."
November 08, 2018
Horses of the Dark Time
"If you can’t believe these words I say,
Step in, Wild Horse, and clear the way.
In comes D ick and all his men,
He’s come to see you once again.
He was once alive but now he’s dead,
He’s nothing but a poor old horse’s head."
