Brave

Brave

photo by sam d 2006 – be happy 2007 – be yourself 2008 – be creative 2009 – be brave 2010 – be social 2011…

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Does Free Will decide Who we Love?

Does Free Will decide Who we Love?

Wherever there is a ticklish query on my mind that exceeds a few days notice, often I am forced to begin a phase of deconstruction…

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On Doubt and False Belief

On Doubt and False Belief

  Rene Descartes-”So in future, if I want to discover any certainty, I must withhold my assent from these former beliefs just as carefully as…

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The Dream Works as the Mental Modus Operandi

The Dream Works as the Mental Modus Operandi

this was a short response for an 2-page assignment, based on Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams: Sections V – VI (except E-F-G-H) – VII (only…

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Hardy's Penultimate Tess and Casual Savagery of One Day

Hardy’s Penultimate Tess and Casual Savagery of One Day

“For, in spite of its comic gloss, One Day is really about loneliness and the casual savagery of fate; the tragic gap between youthful aspiration…

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Those who Teach

Those who Teach

Everyone seems wiser with an alcoholic beverage in hand. Allow me to elaborate. Reading literature is a shortcut to wisdom. The lessons that we learn…

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Systems of Authenticity

Systems of Authenticity

Systems of Authenticity: A Literary Criticism of Lupton’s Thinking With Type & Benjamin’s Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Elizabeth Sarobhasa

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The Simulacra, the Simulation and the Subtext

The Simulacra, the Simulation and the Subtext

The Simulacra, the Simulation and the Subtext: A Literary Criticism of Socrates’s Phaedrus & Baudrillard’s Precession of the Simulacra (2009) The art of a simulacrum…

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Twitter, from a Historian Perspective

Twitter, from a Historian Perspective

The concept of time stamps on twitter has always frustrated me. Not only are they akin to bullet points, or scratches on the proverbial sun-dial,…

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Friction is a Process to an Idea

Friction is a Process to an Idea

kitchen area at workingformat Consuming yogurt without spoons is a daunting task. However, we were on campus and one of our study mates was a…

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Titus Andronicus and the Skewered Limbs

Titus Andronicus and the Skewered Limbs

Tonight’s fourth year’ english discussions were borderline sleepy, a grim foreshadowing of empty silences and knock-off’s for the rest of the semester. Attempted thoughts with…

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