Author Archives: barce

“[T]he hidden linguistic universe of companianate couples… rests entirely on one generative phrase: ‘Would you please stop doing that.” — from Against Love by Laura Kipnis I wasn’t in a relationship but this book set the bar high in terms … Continue reading →

3 new members joined Spinoza’s Coat. I won’t talk about them much for out of respect of the 2 living and the 1 dead. We were reading Greek tragedy because if we read enough of it, then we’d understand Aristotle’s … Continue reading →

I left the place where I copied CDs and documents, and found work as a PHP coder again. In hindsight, anything was possible. I could’ve easily coded Facebook, or Twitter. All I really need is to time travel back to … Continue reading →

Remember the crappy job where I got spit in my coffee and made next to no money? They put me up in Atlanta for a few weeks in June to work on cracking passwords on hard drives that used to … Continue reading →

It was the 2nd month at the awful place where I copied CDs and paper documents. There was a Windows web application that needed some fixing. It was a silly encoding issue which I identified pretty quickly. After that fix … Continue reading →

It’s ironic that the month I lose all my real life college friends, and then some, I get an invite to Friendster: “It’s hotter than yam…. cooler than icb. Check it out. How are you? What’s up? Do you still … Continue reading →

If you’ve wondered why I don’t hang out with friends from my alma mater, UC Santa Cruz (or rather why they don’t hang out with me), the Iraq War and the disagreements with alumni is why. I won’t recant my … Continue reading →

Nothing like the coast To tie the land and the sea, To manage the soil’s daily greed… To greet the pounding the sounding The rush, crush, crash and fall for every wave. Far away from the coast There is no … Continue reading →

The first weeks of 2003 are a blur to me. We didn’t stop partying for quite a few weeks. This was a party invite typical of the time because not everybody was using Evite yet: Friends, A VERY happy new … Continue reading →

I wrote this in my journal on Christmas: ‘Hegel is more poet than philosopher. He calls reductionism thought that “culminates in a style of painting that is absolutely monochromatic.” (Phenomenology of Spirit, 31) Reductionism has lifeless determinations, but the universe … Continue reading →