Jan Mieszkowski

He thought that he had learned patience, but he had only lost impatience. –Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion

Don’t you know that "No" is the wildest word we consign to Language? –Emily Dickinson

Furcht vor der Nacht, Furcht vor der Nicht-Nacht -Franz Kafka, 18 Okt. 1917

Nice to see that someone was up bright and early to poster campus. #WalterBenjamin

Top Philosophy Halloween Costumes 1) Sexy brain in a vat 2) Sexy Schrödinger's cat 3) Sexy Occam's razor 4) Sexy body without organs 5) Sexy the thing-in-itself

The history of philosophy is not a history of ideas; it is a history of problems. –Fredric Jameson

The empty bookstore shelf sublime.

Marx’s Capital, the film version, by Wes Anderson.

Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited. –Samuel Beckett

Representing for the team.

Well what did you think was in the box?

My ontology: Greek My semiotics: French My decision to celebrate Hegel's birthday with an Owl of Minerva latte: decidedly American

Twitter 2008: The meme is the message Twitter 2012: The message is the meme Twitter 2016: There is no message Twitter 2020: There is no meme Twitter 2024: There is no Twitter

@zenouttakes @gnuman1979 My first thought was that the spoon is a reference to The Matrix.

@gnuman1979 For your sign collection, @janmpdx.

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We are bored when we don't know what we are waiting for. That we do know, or think we know, is nearly always the expression of our superficiality or inattention. Boredom is the threshold to great deeds. –Walter Benjamin

Samuel Beckett explaining to the actor cast as Godot that he doesn't actually make an appearance on stage. #WaitingForGodot

The Tractatus consists of two parts: the one presented here plus all that I have not written. And it is precisely this second part that is the important one. –Wittgenstein