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Jan Mieszkowski

@janmpdx

Comp Lit Prof – Author of Labors of Imagination (Fordham, 2006), Watching War (Stanford, 2012), and Crises of the Sentence (U of Chicago, 2019)

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April 22: It's the birthday of Kant, Lenin, and Nabokov. They'll rise from a dogmatic slumber, give all power to the Soviets, and admire a butterfly.

April 22: It's the birthday of Kant, Lenin, and Nabokov. They'll rise from a dogmatic slumber, give all power to the Soviets, and admire a butterfly.
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Schopenhauer: The will to life Nietzsche: The will to power Heidegger: The will to will Wittgenstein: What will it take for all of you to shut up?

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The Tractatus consists of two parts: the one presented here plus all that I have not written. And it is precisely this second part that is the important one. –Wittgenstein

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We are bored when we don't know what we are waiting for. That we do know, or think we know, is nearly always the expression of our superficiality or inattention. Boredom is the threshold to great deeds. –Walter Benjamin

We are bored when we don't know what we are waiting for. That we do know, or think we know, is nearly always the expression of our superficiality or inattention. Boredom is the threshold to great deeds.
–Walter Benjamin
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Twitter 2008: The meme is the message Twitter 2012: The message is the meme Twitter 2016: There is no message Twitter 2020: There is no meme Twitter 2024: There is no Twitter

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My ontology: Greek My semiotics: French My decision to celebrate Hegel's birthday with an Owl of Minerva latte: decidedly American

My ontology: Greek 
My semiotics: French 
My decision to celebrate Hegel's birthday with an Owl of Minerva latte: decidedly American