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Zach's Interests
General
Philosophy
Playing bass guitar
German, Spanish languages
Music
The Fall of Troy, The Devil Wears Prada, Heavy Heavy Low Low, Job for a Cowboy, Misery Signals, Stretch Armstrong, Still Remains, Circa Survive, Norma Jean, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, The Number 12 Looks Like You, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Underoath, Thursday, Comeback Kid, Head Automatica, Metro Station (guilty pleasure), Glassjaw, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Chopin, Haydn, Paganini, Dragonetti, Between the Buried and Me, The Mars Volta, At the Drive-In, Tiger Army, HorrorPops, Shai Hulud, Fear Before the March of Flames, Coheed and Cambria, Chiodos, Circle Takes the Square, HORSE the Band, Men Women and Children, One Small Step for Landmines, Streetlight Manifesto, etc
Movies
Little Miss Sunshine, Monty Python, A Clockwork Orange, The Big Lebowski, (just read Sarah's list)...
Television
Are You Being Served?
Books
Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Derrida, Sartre, Dostoyevsky, Orwell, Chomsky, Habermas, Said, Merleau Ponty, Taylor, de Beauvoir, Heidegger, Foucault, Marx, Engels, Ricardo, Hobson, de Tocqueville, Smith, von Humboldt, Ward Churchill, Wittgenstein, Márquez, Cervantes, Paz, etc
Currently interested in continental philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy of language, and deconstruction particularly.
Heroes
"There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ''politicians'' think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think."
"Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of our industrial civilization has been individual material gain, which is accepted as legitimate, even praiseworthy on the grounds that private vices yield public benefits, in the classic formulation. Now it's long been understood, very well, that a society that is based on this principle will destroy itself in time. It can only persist with whatever suffering and injustice it entails, as long as it's possible to pretend that the destructive forces that humans create are limited, that the world is an infinite resource, and that the world is an infinite garbage can."
University Of Central Florida
Orlando, FL
Graduated: N/A
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Philosophy
Minor: Spanish / German
Clubs: German Club, Philosophical Society
Current Courses:
About me: Philosophy Student, FSU Tallahassee.
M.A., Philosophy 2009
Learning (and thus interested in) Spanish / German languages.
Would like to learn Russian in the future.
Have played the bass guitar for 3 years or so.
Who I'd like to meet: Noam Chomsky, Stephen Breyer, Derrick Bell, Catherine McKinnon
I've written it down so I'll have it when we head over. Thank you very much, it would be a shame to not be able to order a beer in Germany of all places!
Sorry I don't check our MySpace that often, so I just now got your messages. I'm afraid I don't know how to get in touch with Woolson as I didn't know she'd left till the beginning of the fall semester either. Sorry about that, I wish I knew!
Ich habe nichts mehr über den deutschen Klub erfahren, denn ich war in PA meine Familie besuchen. Sie wird uns bestimmt eine E-mail schicken wenn was passieren wird. Bis bald!
hey,
also ich finde dein Deutsch schon ziemlich gut...aber I will continue in English. 0:-) oder auch nicht. Mir geht es eigentlich gut und dir?
Hoffentlich sehen wir uns bald mal wieder!
Heute hatten wir in Columbus ein Jugendgottesdienst und danach noch FUUUUUUUUUUUN!!
Bis bald!
ahhh Ich habe ganz vergessen das da doch wer ist der Deutsch kann.
Wie ist das Wochenende?
Meg ist ja nicht so happy.
anyway..it's really weird talkin to u in german^^
tschueee bis bald
Sarah
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"There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ''politicians'' think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think."
"Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of our industrial civilization has been individual material gain, which is accepted as legitimate, even praiseworthy on the grounds that private vices yield public benefits, in the classic formulation. Now it's long been understood, very well, that a society that is based on this principle will destroy itself in time. It can only persist with whatever suffering and injustice it entails, as long as it's possible to pretend that the destructive forces that humans create are limited, that the world is an infinite resource, and that the world is an infinite garbage can."
