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The Crux of Deleuze: Jocular Tragedy

Posted January 6th, 2013 at 04:41 PM by jehosafats
Updated January 30th, 2013 at 06:25 PM by jehosafats
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"Every event is like death, double and impersonal in its double." - Gilles Deleuze


Play along and you will find Deleuze sublime. That was my impression at least. After having interrogated several of his texts and arriving at the conclusion something mystical transpired.

Gilles Deleuze enjoys a revered and reviled status in the public consciousness. His rise to...
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Knights, Ribats and Chivalry: Women under the Almoravid I

Posted April 13th, 2012 at 04:16 PM by jehosafats
Updated September 21st, 2012 at 04:51 PM by jehosafats

Knights, Ribats and Chivalry: Women under the Almoravid I
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Draa Valley, Morocco

"... women of the Almoravid period were so significant on the political scene that the enemies of the dynasty ... accused that empire of being perverted because they gave power to their women." - Maria Jesus Viguera Molins (167)


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Your Fear of Transcendence

Posted February 27th, 2012 at 07:05 PM by jehosafats
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Your Fear of Transcendence

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Neuron and Glial cells


Whether its image once derived from utility is unclear. But with its thickness having been depleted as it is - a cold, calculated tundra, a placebo of reluctance; in a sense it is destined for a shallow grave on an infinite plane.

Its sheer homelessness reflects the given defects of a product...
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Doris Duke and American Architecture

Posted January 24th, 2012 at 03:43 PM by jehosafats
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Doris Duke (1912-1993) was a wealthy American heiress, philanthropist, horticulturalist and art collector. The only child of tobacco and energy magnate James Buchanan Duke, she was shrewd, independent, and mingled with the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Onassis. Her father's passing when she was just 12 years old thus made her the "richest girl in the world."

She...
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