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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
the obligation to reinvent
PHILOSOPHY
"I was in a labyrinth of stairs. This labyrinth was not entirely roofed over. I climbed; other stairways led downwards. On a landing I realized that I had arrived at a summit. A wide view of many lands opened up before me. I saw other men standing on other peaks. One of these men was suddenly seized by dizziness and fell. The dizziness spread; others were now falling from other peaks into the depths below. When I too became dizzy, I woke up." (Walter Benjamin in conversation with Bertolt Brecht)
Interests
theory, high and low culture, eBay
- culture
- literature
- architecture
Music, Movies, and Books
All About Eve, Every Man for Himself and God against All, Ninotchka, Annie Hall, Early Spring; Jude the Obscure, Discipline and Punish, "Alastor" (Shelley), The Gift of Death, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; New Order, Dinah Washington, Albert Ayler, Radiohead, Daft Punk
Teach, Learn, Share
My knowledge mainly extends to Victorian literature, the confluence of aesthetic and economic theory, modernist architecture, and epicurious.com's search function. I like research, so please give me new ideas!
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom
Countries I’ve Lived In
United States