Apidae: Archive

architecture of time

Artist: Sharon
Track: Hum Aajnabi Hai

Apr 30, 20120 notes

Apr 29, 20123 notes

“(Indeed, the question that floats eternally at the top of Twitter’s Web site — “What are you doing?” — can come to seem existentially freighted. What are you doing?)” —Clive Thompson, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy” (2008)

Apr 29, 20124 notes

#ambient awareness #על מה אתה חושב?

epistemological imperialism

Apr 29, 20120 notes

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Artist: Beulah
Track: Popular Mechanics for Lovers

Apr 29, 20120 notes

Apr 27, 20121 note

In modern thought, (if not in fact)
Nothing is that doesn’t act,
So that is reckoned wisdom which
Describes the scratch but not the itch.

Anonymous, via Marshall McLuhan

Apr 27, 20122 notes

#Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man #the grammar of you

Apr 27, 20120 notes

#internet politics

Apr 27, 20120 notes

#future project #mechanical abstractions

Apr 27, 20121 note

#wallowing

“Lightning hits! Quality! Virtue! Dharma! That is what the Sophists were teaching! Not ethical relativism. Not pristine ‘virtue.’ But areté. Excellence. Dharma! Before the Church of Reason. Before substance. Before form. Before mind and matter. Before dialectic itself. Quality had been absolute.” —Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Apr 27, 20122 notes

#don't know if brilliance #or inanity

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Artist: Aftermidnight
Track: i’m talking quietly (to not wake myself up)

Apr 26, 20123 notes

#relationships #and all those ships

Apr 26, 20120 notes

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Artist: Justice
Track: D.A.N.C.E.

This is not how I imagined nostalgia.

[“Proving that it really is all context, this song is able to make me cry because of the context in which I was subjected to it playing (along with We Are Your Friends and Seaside by The Kooks), day in and day out for six weeks.” — Ana]

Apr 26, 20123 notes

I’m talking quietly to not wake myself up

Apr 26, 20120 notes

#may or may not be mixtape by ♥ ∆v∆L∆NCH∑≤ ♥

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Apr 26, 20121 note

#lolculture

“?אצלי או אצלך” —

Apr 25, 20120 notes

(since magic is a serious reality for small children)

Apr 25, 20122 notes

#atheism as a kind of anti-religious religion which worships reason skepticism intellect empirical proof human autonomy and self-determina...

Apr 25, 20122 notes

#wallace on borges