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| User: | wintermute84 (8022761) Ecce homo
(It means: "Behold the man") |
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| Name: | That Dude | |
| Website: | My Alledged Website | |
| Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | |
| Birthdate: | 1984-08-24 | |
| Bio: | “The effects of technology do not occur at the level of opinions or concepts, but alter sense ratios or patterns of perception steadily and without any resistance. The serious artist is the only person able to encounter technology with impunity, just because he is an expert aware of the changes in sense perception.” -Marshall McLuhan, from "The Medium is the Message" "In the West [authors] become famous effigies as our books lose the power to shape and influence. Do you ask your writers how they feel about this? Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated." -Don Delillo, from Mao II I'm a long winded, godless, fast cursing sumbitch from Kentucky who likes bourbon whiskey and not wearing shoes, who is working on a PhD, and who is currently stuck in Philadelphia for a while... | |
| Interests: | 58: anarchy, asia, atheism, bars, books, boredoms, china, civil rights, coffee, college, college basketball, computers, critical theory, cyberpunk, dune, electronic music, english, equality, fiction, foreign films, grunge rock, guitar, harmony, horror movies, human autonomy, ideological studies, intellectualism, japan, kentucky, liberty, literature, louisville, love, marxism, music, noise rock, novels, peace, philosophy, poststructuralism, rhetoric, science fiction, slavoj zizek, sleep, socialism, speculative fiction, technology, travel, university of louisville, uofl, video games, walking, whiskey, william faulkner, william gibson, william s burroughs, women, writing | |
| Schools: | Dupont Manual High School - Louisville, KY (1998 - 2002) University of Louisville - Louisville, KY (2002 - 2006) Temple University - Philadelphia, PA (2006 - present) | |
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| Account type: | Basic Account | |
