WELCOME TO THE IRRATIONAL RATIONALIST
HOMEPAGE!!
My name is Heather Noël Schwartz and I am an Absurdist by trade with my eye on a degree (10°=1) in Post-Fnordist Studies. I have included on this page links to various Webpages that I have found to be most charming. Further, for those who have a strong tolerance for boredom, I have included some of my own essays which were written a while back...okay, a long while back. Nevertheless, enjoy!
"I do not believe in Truth, Beauty, Reason, and/or the Mind. Foundations, if they ever existed, are gone and there is only Propaganda--mine against yours...let the battle begin."
EVERY WORD IS OWNED©
ANARCHISM LINKS
PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON ARCHIVE
TAO (Taoism & Anarchism)
UNIVERSAL MIND TAZ (links, links, links)
CYBER STUDIES, NET HAPPENINGS & SHIT THAT WOULD MAKE HABERMAS SMILE
CAPTOLOGY: The Study of Computers As Persuasive Technology @ Standford
DOES THE INTERNET CREATE DEMOCRACY? a thesis by Alinta Thornton
THE EDGE "To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves"
THE NETWORK OBSERVER "a free on-line newsletter about networks and democracy"
PROCESS IS ALL THERE IS©
DADAISM LINKS
DADA ONLINE (Cabaret Voltaire-charged site!)
DISTRIBUTORS & PUBLISHERS
Search Amazon.com right here!
ANOK & PEACE (NOTE: They are still working on their catalog)
ERISIAN & DISCORDIAN& VARIOUS CYBER-ESOTERIA LINKS
ALCHEMY WEBSITE & VIRTUAL LIBRARY
TOOLS OF CHAOS (essays, info, orgs concerning Chaos Magick)
GNOSTICISM IN TONI MORISSON'S JAZZ. ...An essay by Simon DeDeo
GNOSTIC SOCIETY VIRTUAL LIBRARY
FEMINIST THEORY
FREUD LINKS
SAVAGE©
HEGEL LINKS
KABBALAH/QABALAH LINKS & A FEW KABBALISTS & MYSTIC FELLOWTRAVELERS
KABBALAH...an introductory
KABBALAH: WAY OF THE JEWISH MYSTIC
M-COMP (Mensonization Complementation): New Insights on Ancient Paradigms...A site of a friend of mine...not bad.
NOTES ON KABBALAH...the basics & then some
SPIRAL: Kabbalah for the 21st Century
MARXISM LINKS
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD (An ton of links to marxist & anarchist organizations!)
MEMETICS "proposed by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976, is based on the proposition that ideas--memes--singly and in related groups, propagate themselves across brains the way genes do across bodies"
THE LIFECYCLE OF MEMES an essay by Henrik Bjarneskans, Bjarne Grønnevik and Anders Sandberg
MEMES @ Hyper-Weirdness WWW
MEMETIC ENGINEERING "about the social and philosophical implications of a meme-centered worldview"
VIRUSES OF THE MIND an essay by Richard Dawkins
NIETZSCHE LINKS
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (Are the lions laughing yet?)
CLICK CLICK©
ORGANIZATIONS (REVOLUTIONARY & CRITICAL)
ADBUSTERS (Culture Jammers...and not a bad zine either)
COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
COUNSEL FOR RESPONSIBLE GENETICS
INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE JOURNALISM
INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY
INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS
INTERNATIONALIST GROUP...Revolutionary Marxists
MAI-NOT! PROJECT Though I think fighting against the MAI is futile & that they should focus on thinking & organizing internationally
PEACEFIRE "Youth Alliance Against Internet Censorship"
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: Your Voice Against Intolerance
RADICAL PHILOSOPHY ASSOCIATION
WWW.ESSENTIAL.ORG...A clearinghouse of environmental, consumer advocate, human rights orgs
ZAPATISTA NET OF AUTONOMY & LIBERATION
POWER©
POETRY LINKS
ANTONIN ARTAUD a link provided to me by a "frenchy" pal
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Let it be known that I consider Bukowski to be a wanna-be poet who seems to fascinate the white, middle & upper classes with his alcoholism & supposedly "tell it like it is" bullshit. Apparently crotchety old men who pathetically try to critique society (by showing us how dried-up Californians with their gilted snears do it) is all the rage. "Yes, dear charles you are funny...but for reasons other than what the professors say. Not even the Straight Edgers have become as pathetically misguided as you. " Universities vomit his works left & right and deconstruct deconstructing deconstruction until the birds lose their footing. May the English Departments the world over burn in a perpetual literary hell for this offense. So here he is...listed on a meaningless webpage...where he belongs.
e.e.cummings <---there USED to be a kick-ass site that contained his poems, alas the copyright bastards who still cling to the tiresome notion of owning ideas have basically been shutting down many a site on the Web. If you do come upon a hefty e.e.cummings site, please e-mail me! Thanks, Heather. In the meantime, try this one e.e. cummings
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY "frenchy" pal strikes again
DYLAN THOMAS...so quit asking me to post him!
SOVEREIGN©
POST-MODERNISM LINKS
JEAN BAUDRILLARD ("Everywhere it is the same stereophonic effect, the absolute proximity of the real: the same effect of simulation"-The Illusion of the End)
HAKIM BEY ("Ontological Anarchy is a hobgoblin for BIG minds"-TAZ)
CULTURAL THEORY (from the Carnegie-Mellon Univ. English server!)
C-THEORY (fantastic site for those who enjoy reading essays that critique our consumerist culture)
GILLES DELEUZE & FELIX GUATTARI
THE DELEUZEGUATTARIONARY "This project is to produce an online dictionary of the terms used by, or
derived from, the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari."
INSTITUTE, THE (info on cultural studies, theory, the left...)
POSTMODERN CULTURE a journal
RAW VISION MAGAZINE: International Journal of Intuitive & Visionary Art
SPOON COLLECTIVE (listing of several e-mail discussion groups dealing with cultural studies, postmodernism, etc)
"POMO TO GO" a kick-ass essay by R.U. Sirius...
SARTRE LINKS
SEMIOTICS LINKS Basically, the study of signs. (It's exciting isn't it ?!)
NOAM CHOMSKY (not JUST an anarchist!)
SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE FOR SEMIOTICS
SURREALISM LINKS (My goodness..where do I begin?!)
SURREALISM & THE IMAGINATION ("Desire, Imagination, and the Necessity of Revolt against the Ordinary Everyday Perception of Reality")
THE SURREALISM SERVER (includes a history, writings of the Surrealist movement as well as info & links on Futurism & FLUXUS)
THE UNIVERSE...WHICH OTHERS CALL THE LIBRARY
INFORMATION©
VARIOUS NEWS LINKS
AQUILA PUBLICATIONS webpage of a liberal (Democrat) friend of mine.
BAKUNIN: A Magazine for the Dead Russian Anarchist in All of Us
COCKROACH "an e-zine for poor and working class people"
FREESPEECH INTERNET TELEVISION (Search page of RealAudio & Video!)
JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION
RADIO B92'S OPEN SERBIA HOMEPAGE
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO G-7 INFORMATION CENTRE
WORLD NEWS at the Mining Company
MORE NEWS SOURCES (National & International)
VISION©
SEARCH ENGINES
Alta Vista: free-text searching of the Web from Digital Equipment
Cornell Law School has legal information, including full text of recent Supreme Court decisons, and searchable by keyword.
Einet Galaxy: "The Professional's Guide to a World of Information"
Excite concept searching is highly effective
Jumbo!: "Download Network,Over 250,000 Shareware Programs and Links"
Newsbot a Wired Magazine news page
News Index (a current news search engine)
Northern Light categorizes search results to help you focus
Shareware.com which is part of a larger CNET search engine
Where You Live a search engine that allows you to "Look for individual campaign contributions to candidates, PACs or soft money contributions"
W3 Search Engines a webpage set up and ready for a ton of searches
Yahoo: Subject guide and free-text searching of the World Wide Web
SEARCH ENGINE SPYING: Find out what everyone else is searching! Is it me or is this site the epitome of Net life?
WEBSITE TRANSLATION
Systran Translation Service Just type in text or a URL and that site will be translated! In all truth though, the text often ends up reading like a surrealist nightmare...which is lovely in its own right.
MY ESSAYS
Bourgeois Epistemology & the Gendered Republic
Makhnovists and the Russian Revolution
Charles Taylor & Communitarian Ethics
Postmodernism, Feminism & Identity
Anthropocentric Versus Ecocentric Debate
A HORRID PICT OF ME
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