Kant avec Masoch,

A while ago a few of us had this conversation. Tim has now written something excellent about Kant and Masoch:

Kant prefers this duty to “a spontaneous goodness of heart that needs neither spur nor bridle” (85). But using this quote on its own to put Kant in a gimp mask misses the point of what the “spur and bridle” are doing, ( Read more... )

Everyone must read the end of the affair by Graham Greene. It is really indescribably amazing. One of the few good memories I have of my year in Liverpool (I went there straight after school to university, but left after the first year, then I took a year out, then I started at Sussex) is sitting in my empty room reading that book, listening to ( Read more... )

So I really can't do anything to end capitalism because the choice (in Brighton) is between the following groups:

1) Hippie leftists - They are hippies, many dislike "theory", many don't know what the hell they are talking about, ever, and refuse to read books. Also, they dress terribly2) Socialists - These people are sectarian and annoying and ( Read more... )

Is the rocksoc Pickerel meeting on tonight? I feel like getting out of the house.

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Is bad sex better than no sex?

From The Weblog

Sadly, I am back in England now. I feel like posting something angsty, but I shall resist this time. I keep writing really depressing (and probably fairly bad) stories about people with miserable lives. I'm not sure what is making them so depressing; I have been reasonably happy of late.

Christ, I have to go back to that terrible little country now! It is so so sad. Alex and I want to stay here for ever. Will someone pay for us to do so?

(In reality I know this is all very middle class and self indulgent - we can live cheaply here because people are poorer than us.)

So, after my last post yesterday, Alex and I went out and had an argument about capitalism, which Alex argued can be something of a liberation. I argued (obviously) that it has to be smashed. Now. It wasn't a particularly satisfying argument; as I previously wrote, I have forgotton how to argue about this; plus I am not even sure that I believe it ( Read more... )

I spontaneously decided to stay in Prague for a few more days, with Alex, instead of getting my flight home, despite the fact that I'm not sure how much money is in my account. I am so pleased! After deciding that we decided to jump into a river!

The trains, buses and trams are completely on time in this country. And according to my friend they were built in 1974.