June 2011
6 posts
Humans May Have 'Magnetic' Sixth Sense →
Humans may have a sixth sense after all, suggests a new study finding that a protein in the human retina, when placed into fruit flies, has the ability to detect magnetic fields.
Adolf Wolfi →
My husband @robfeiiman sent me this link today. Keep coming back to the images throughout the day.
Watchbeetleinabox:
Acéra ou Le bal des sorcières [Acera, or The Witches’ Dance], a short film by surrealist documentarian Jean Painlevé (1972).
Jean-Luc Nancy writes (in Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies):
It wouldn’t be wrong, of course, to state that is is Being as such, in its entirety, that relates to itself as to a stranger: for otherwise one couldn’t begin to comprehend “nature’s” richness...
Judith Fucking Butler: “What makes for a livable... →
“What makes for a livable world is no idle question. It is not merely a question for philosophers. It is posed in various idioms all the time by people in various walks of life. If that makes them all philosophers, then that is a conclusion I am happy to embrace. It becomes a question for…
