February 2011
“And hey there, Mrs. lovely moon, you’re lonely and you’re blue.
It’s kind of...”
– devendra banhart (via nosamantha)
January 2011
It doesn’t pay to try, All the smart boys know why, It doesn’t mean I didn’t try, I just never know why. Feel so cold and all alone, Cause baby, you’re not at home. And when I’m home Big deal, I’m still alone. Feel so restless, I am, Beat my head against a pole Try to knock some sense, down in my bones. And even though they don’t show, The scars...
Following on from the structuralist linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, Baudrillard argued that meaning (value) is created through difference - through what something is not (so “dog” means “dog” because it is not-“cat”, not-“goat”, not-“tree”, etc.). In fact, he viewed meaning as near enough self-referential: objects, images of objects,...
