Bible.mp3!

19 02 2007

Thanks to the Academy of Ancient Languages, you can now turn your iPod into a ChaiPod!

That’s right: there is a website that features the entire Tanakh, chapter by chapter, as mp3. The best part is, it’s read by a man with a wonderful Eastern accent (Yemenite? Baghdadi? I can never tell) and he really knows how to differentiate both his עs and his אs, his חs and his כs. Well, no, the best bit is the fact that I can now sit on a bus and listen to the Hebrew Bible being read to me. I can look cool, in other words, but still secretly be a Bible-geek. It’s every man’s dream!

Much thanks, of course, to John F. Hobbins, without whom I may never have noticed this incredible resource. Now, to download them all…


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The Collapse of Chaos

19 02 2007

The following is an extract taken from the fictitious “Subcultural Sublimation, Modern Neocapitalist Theory and Libertarianism” (Parry and Abian):

“Sexual identity is fundamentally dead,” says Lacan; however, according to Drucker, it is not so much sexual identity that is fundamentally dead, but rather the collapse, and some would say the stasis, of sexual identity. In a sense, several materialisms concerning the paradigm, and hence the dialectic, of poststructural sexuality may be discovered. The subject is interpolated into a semanticist neocultural theory that includes language as a totality.

I am reminded of a joke that was quoted by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart in The Collapse of Chaos (London: Penguin, 1994):

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