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Aphorisms Part 2: A PhD Story

“The truth about stories is that that’s all we are.” “Stories are wondrous things. But they are dangerous.” — Thomas King Story/Theory I I can sense your uneasiness to ask, so I’ll ask on your behalf: Why, in the context of a dismal academic job market, do a PhD — especially in…

Žižek

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Aphorisms Part 2
Aphorisms Part 2
Žižek

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Time Kap — sule

·3 days ago

stuck in the fast lane

a poem — “Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down” — Simon & Garfunkel “I fought the current running just the way you would And now I’m stuck upstream And it’s getting harder I’m like fallingwater” — Maggie Rogers caught, taut in the eye of the storm caught, taught in…

Learning

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stuck in the fast lane
stuck in the fast lane
Learning

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Sep 11

unspecified it

a poem — it appears blurry when looked at too closely

Theory

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unspecified it
unspecified it
Theory

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Written From The Heart

·Sep 11

no-thing

a poem — “one becomes weary only of what is new” - Soren Kierkegaard, Repetition the breeze that made you think nothing — ever repeats nothing — exactly the same nothing — the slightest bit different on the back of the neck always felt anew, with both windows rolled down as far as they can go…

Nothing

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no-thing
no-thing
Nothing

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Written From The Heart

·Sep 9

stained glass river

a poem — “I’ll give you the keys to all the canoes” — Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “Constellation” “Desire is a lack of being” — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness to wish, not to fish, on a river like a scene depicted in stained glass i do not (wish to) know rippling softly, weathered by…

Knowledge

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stained glass river
stained glass river
Knowledge

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Written From The Heart

·Sep 9

past

a poem — a sliver of street light in the night makes its way between the pillows stacked in the spot of a missing person shivering from the chills of a coming winter glowing from a miracle passed that’s perfect

Miracles

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past
past
Miracles

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Written From The Heart

·Aug 29

doubt

a poem — can’t quite quench my thirst with the label on the bottle sipping blind, satisfied only reasons doubt one for you and for the road onesomeness punctured lonesome and loud reasonable to doubt still without: or am I just? or am I proud?

Reason

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doubt
doubt
Reason

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The Power of Poetry

·Aug 24

carrot

a poem — “home is where you give home away” — Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Rehearsals for Living the agony of apprehending August, chomping on a memory a childish resurrection enriches and impoverishes twenty-four hours over and over again twenty-four karats encircled by infinity, time touched, i sat next to infinity purity made by…

Infinity

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carrot
carrot
Infinity

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The Power of Poetry

·Aug 23

vocation

a poem — what else can be done but collecting what cannot be thought on formerly empty pages Join The Power of Poetry. 💚 Franz Kafka // The Poets from space The Power of Poetry how to submit? [update August 2023]medium.com

Thoughts

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vocation
vocation
Thoughts

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The Power of Poetry

·Aug 21

pandemic

a poem — the sacred that can never be stolen from the soul being slowly sapped from beneath the skin Join The Power of Poetry. 💚 Hungry Hearts // The Poets from space The Power of Poetry how to submit? [update August 2023]medium.com

Pandemic

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pandemic
pandemic
Pandemic

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