ISSUE 16 | MAY 2012

STUPIDITY

no real possessions except his body - begging the world for meaning - « your morality » - terror disentangles itself from its source - « luxurious detachment » - « the perfect brute, indifferent to my happiness » - you can get away with anything, because you’re not a threat - awareness of the looseness, contingency, mutability

Élan Reisner

Nothing Knowing

in the space of the mind, knowledge abhors ignorance - nothing is - « doubt in order to doubt » - possible sources of error - sum nihil ergo sum - « something intermediate between God and nothing » - a rhetoric of gratitude

Michael Kinnucan

Solomon and Equity

« for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? » - what he refrained from asking - impartiality - Anatole France’s famous joke - premature, crude, and approximate - the king’s word - to each what is proper - reasonable readers

Eliot D’Silva

Fact and Affect in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

a working definition of idiocy - feat of hermeneutic friendship - how to strain something « symbolical » - « I cannot bear another day like today » - a genuinely exploratory drive - all the trauma can melt into intimacy - Father Compson’s careworn abstractions - hair trickling over the skull - the most responsible form of communication

Chris Bisignani

The Framework Game

friend yelling at other friend - estimation (fast!) and experiment (slow!) - my arguments against « fast/slow-brain » were just « slow-brain arguments » - Everything Is A Remix - 99.9% of stuff is a remix - overcome her obsession about the « meaning of life » and « making a difference » - mean inaccessible hot girl