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For Deleuze, as for Foucault and Lyotard, the activity of political reflection must have as a primary goal the freeing of an individual (be that individual a person, a group, or a practice) for new practices, practices that change, undermine, or abandon the power relationships that keep old practices in place. Foucault addresses the same concern in his description of philosophical “curiosity”:

"...not the curiosity that seeks to assimilate what it is proper for one to know, but that which enables one to get free of oneself… There is always something ludicrous in philosophical discourse when it tries, from the outside, to dictate to others, to tell them where their truth is and how to find it, or when it works up a case against them in the language of naive positivity. But it is entitled to explore what might be changed, in its own thought, through the practice of a knowledge that is foreign to it." (Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure)

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New nose hair trimmer Woo-hoo! #middle-age

28/10/16 - One of the most irksome things about getting older is the way you sprout hair. Nose, eyebrows, ears. This nose hair trimmer is still knocking about the bathroom cabinet, largely unused.

Also, in a lot of the pics around this time, focus (or the lack of it, more precisely) doesn't seem to be something I'm particularly interested in.

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Kristi H.

When they moved this instance to a larger server it somehow messed up the background task workers that pretty much do everything. So there is a huge backlog of jobs to be done, each with different priority, which is why any new post's notifier task is pending, and - as is my understanding - will be until the queue ahead of it gets completed.

The big downside of this is that, right now on friendica.world, none of the local-only communications work. You can post and reply publicly, but you can't post to just your friends or followers, nor are DMs working. The server admin recently commented on one of my posts that it should be caught up this weekend. Hopefully everything will be working correctly after that and our posts will no longer have the hourglass and "Notifier Task Pending" on them.

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Choon.

23/10/16 - This is a classy bit of soul, which I had bought after hearing the great Dr Bob Jones play it on his show. Turns out there's a mis-labelled version of this out there (which I found out to my cost). The one you want has the word Century scribbled out on the label presumably because they'd all been pressed with the wrong name on, or they found out there was another group with the same name, after the labels had been printed.

I really like writing on labels (WOL) of records I buy, even though it knocks value off. Seeing someone's name on there always makes me wonder who they were and what happened to them.

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