anti-oedipussy:

The machine of obligatory learning does not primarily have the goal of transmitting information, knowledge, or a ‘culture,’ but of transforming the child’s semiotic coordinates from top to bottom. Under these conditions, we can consider that the real function of the ‘latency period’ is a modern equivalent of the initiation camps…But here, instead of lasting fifteen hours, the initiation camp lasts fifteen years, and it’s objective is to enslave the individual, down to the most intimate constitution of their nervous fibers, to the capitalistic systems of production.

Félix Guattari, “The Machinic Unconscious: Essays in Schizoanalysis”

neoyorzapoteca:

“This is a simple way of learning to concentrate better. It goes like this: whenever you feel like quitting – just do five more – five more minutes, five more exercises, five more pages – which will extend your focus. The rule pushes you just beyond the point of frustration and helps build mental concentration. It’s a form of training as well as being a way of getting something accomplished.”

— Harriet Griffey, The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world (via semperfeminae)

Listen to the eerie song of Antarctica — melting

11-9n:

The music of the ice, he explained, is made by wind passing over snow dunes and sending vibrations through trillions of compressed ice crystals in the snow bed — called a firn. “Snow is 80 percent air, with flaky bonds between crystals,” Chaput said. “As they get weaker, the velocity a wave travels gets lower, so the tones go down. It both lowers and gets quieter.”

Listen to the eerie song of Antarctica — melting