Daily Archive: January 19, 2008

coaxing words

From the Mongol Embassy website: In their many years of nomadic life, the Mongols have developed their own specific techniques of handling livestock. One technique employs toig, a special coaxing word, which is uttered...

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Happiness is … one-click WordPress upgrades. Thank you, Dreamhost. [Actually, it took a few more clicks, mostly to update the database.]

“tired of trees”

In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari, 20th century French post-structuralists, are interested in explorations and subversions instead of analytic logic and unified Truth, of which the concept of the rhizome is only part....