Tuesday, May 07, 2013

THE NEIN QUARTERLY, Vol 2.

THE ABSURD TIMES


@Nein has just announced he intends to take a sabbatical as a failed intellectual.  However, he did approve of this edition of the quarterly.

I assume many of you have tried to find The Nein Quarterly online, but there is no such thing.  No, nein, nicht.  However, there is a great need for such a quarterly, so here it is as best I can buffer:

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    While I'm away, follow , , , , , for all things worth knowing.

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  2. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1h

    I love you, twitter, but I've chosen to be a failed intellectual.

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  3. Goethe-Institut NY ‏@GI_NewYork24 Apr

    Please RT! MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38 seeks a Curatorial Resident for 2014:

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  4. Goethe-Institut NY ‏@GI_NewYork2 May

    Rudolph Herzog (Son of Werner) reads from 'A Short History of Nuclear Folly' at the German Consulate next week:

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  5. DAAD North America ‏@DAADnewyork6 May

    SPASS: Here's a film about a Boy...made of atoms. A German scientists makes the world's smallest stop-action film!...

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  6. DAAD North America ‏@DAADnewyork6 May

    The Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology is offering two Visiting Fellowships for the Summer Term 2013.

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  7. Goethe-Institut NY ‏@GI_NewYork30 Apr

    Man spricht Deutsch. Warum die Sprachkurse der Goethe-Institute in der Krise mehr u. mehr Zulauf finden: via

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  8. Max Planck Society ‏@maxplanckpress3 May

    The Max Planck Institute for Empirical offers fellowships! via

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  9. Max Planck Society ‏@maxplanckpress4 May

    WWW...what? Here's the first ever , launched in 1991 to explain the web to newcomers: MT

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  10. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly12h

    Dienstag: eine bloße Fortsetzung des Montags mit anderen Mitteln.

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  11. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly13h

    I'd probably sleep better if Werner Herzog didn't narrate my dreams.

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  12. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly14h

    Heidegger heideggers into a bar.

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  13. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly14h

    Semiotics = This is not a pipe. Semantics = Are you sure this is not a pipe? Pedantics = Obviously.

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  14. cszabla ‏@cszabla22h

    how is the story of nietzsche's sister's megalomaniacal german colony in s. america not already a werner herzog film?

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  15. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly14h

    Disappointing: we've had an Argentine pope for months now and tango still hasn't been declared a sacrament.

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  16. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly14h

    Whenever I tickle my Tickle Me Borges, only my Tickle Me Kafka laughs.

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  17. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly14h

    Borges will always be my favorite German author.

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  18. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly14h

    Why does every Ideological State Apparatus I fall for always end up being just another Repressive State Apparatus?

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  19. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly15h

    This is the Golden Age of having your own private public sphere.

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  20. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly16h

    Twitter on a smartphone is the best thing that ever happened to being alone in the crowd.

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  21. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly16h

    Somewhere beyond good and evil is a place called meh.

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  22. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly16h

    Social media is just the symptom, my friends. We're the disease.

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  23. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly16h

    Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Twitter knows.

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  24. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly16h

    Sorry, I only liked you on Facebook.

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  25. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly16h

    Writing jokes on is like doing stand-up in a club full of people staring at their phones.

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  26. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly17h

    The author can die in many ways, but the comp. lit. term paper is probably the most painful.

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  27. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly17h

    Hate it when Zarathustra puts me on spakerphone.

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  28. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly17h

    This is scary and very cool. Sound art based on the crash of the Hindenburg. Listen with headphones in the dark.

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  29. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly17h

    There was a time before memes. A sad, joyless, lonely time.

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  30. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly17h

    Spot the fetishized commodity.

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  31. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly17h

    "Maybe I parked *behind* the mountain."

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  32. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly18h

    You never look me up in the DSM IV/5 anymore.

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  33. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly18h

    I love you, but I've chosen my narcissistic projection of you.

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  34. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly18h

    Anxiety *is* my performance.

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  35. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly18h

    Id's all good.

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  36. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly18h

    One wonders why every Monday reverts to barbarism.

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  37. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly18h

    At the end of some Mondays there is simply not enough gin, not enough tonic.

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  38. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly19h

    Some day all ideologies will come as a banana-something smoothie.

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  39. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly19h

    Twitter as performative critique of fully developed thought.

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  40. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly22h

    Your couch or mine?

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  41. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly22h

    Remember, parents: You could say it in English twice, or in German once.

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  42. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly22h

    Having a bad day? Take a minute to imagine an early Woody Allen film dubbed into German. You're welcome.

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  43. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23h

    Twitter's character limit often tests the latitude of German's longitude.

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  44. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23h

    Mondays in Germany are about the same as elsewhere. They just suck somewhat more efficiently.

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  45. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23h

    Admittedly, the invention of Monday was not the finest hour for German engineering.

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  46. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23h

    The Freudian fetish and the commodity fetish walk into a bar. Bartender is mystified.

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  47. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23h

    Defenestration anxiety.

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  48. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23h

    After "nein," the next most important thing to know in German is "herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!"

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  49. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    As a German speaker, words never fail you. You fail them.

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  50. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    Some days you almost wish you'd never been reified.

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  51. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    what the fuck? = let's free-associate. who the fuck? = tell me about your mother. why the fuck? = you tell me.

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  52. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    First Rule of Freud Club: No sofas.

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  53. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    Sometimes a Wiener is just a Wiener.

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  54. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    With "the talking cure," Freud didn't mean psychoanalysis. He meant German.

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  55. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    Transference is for lovers. Countertransference is for mental health professionals.

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  56. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    Last session my analyst gently broached the delicate issue of film rights.

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  57. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    Interesting: Your poetry is therapy and my therapy is poetry.

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  58. Goethe-Institut NY ‏@GI_NewYork6 May

    Sign up for our "Kant's Critical Philosophy" summer class at the Wyoming Bldg:

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  59. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    Nein is the new ja.

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  60. Melville House ‏@melvillehouse6 May

    DOSSIER K, the first memoir by Nobel laureate and holocaust survivor Imre Kertesz hits stores tomorrow

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  61. DAAD North America ‏@DAADnewyork3 May

    Why are Germans so happy?

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  62. DAAD North America ‏@DAADnewyork6 May

    This German man will not be kept from his Bier!

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  63. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    There's sublimation, there's serious sublimation, and then there's learning German.

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  64. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    The hardest thing about learning German is what you learn about yourself.

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  65. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    Sometimes a German irregular verb is just a German irregular verb.

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  66. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    Keep Calm and Sublimate On.

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  67. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    Sometimes Twitter's the patient. Sometimes the analyst. But always the neurosis.

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  68. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    Freud Quiz: What always comes between fear and sex? Fünf.

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  69. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    Freud lived so that your father might die.

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  70. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    Hate when my Tickle Me Freud reminds me that I'm tickling my mother.

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  71. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    You'll never understand Freud until you start dreaming in German.

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  72. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    Repress me maybe.

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  73. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly6 May

    Just another Germanic Monday.

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  74. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    I love u, but I've chosen ü.

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  75. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Freud: "Civilization and its Discontents." Social Media: "Discontents and their Civilization."

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  76. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Turns out my problem was my analyst's mother.

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  77. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    My first analyst said the problem was my father. My second said it was my mother. My third said it was my first analyst.

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  78. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    It's Freud's birthday tomorrow. I'll probably just spend the day on the couch.

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  79. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Another Marx birthday party winds down: Proletariat drunk, Bourgeoisie counting proceeds from t-shirt sales, academics still grading exams.

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  80. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    I remember was very generous last year on Marx's birthday. Wonder if they ever got a thank you note.

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  81. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Spelling "Žižek" Zizek is the new "resistance to theory."

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  82. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    All this talk of theory is giving me an ismgasm.

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  83. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    What the fuck? = Hermeneutics. How the fuck? = Structuralism. The whatting of the fuck? = French theory.

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  84. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Marx gave us Marxism. Stalin gave us Stalinism. Reagan gave us Stalinism.

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  85. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    If praxis made perfect, it'd be theory.

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  86. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Sorry, we just do theory. You'll find praxis across the street in the business school.

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  87. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    These days my activism mainly consists of ordering a "small," "medium," or "large" at Starbucks.

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  88. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    I used to be all struggle and no class. Then all class and no struggle. Now I write tweets.

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  89. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    First as tragedy. Then as farce. Then as this font for the first edition of "Das Kapital."

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  90. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    In celebrating Karl Marx's birthday, I'm never sure whether to drink according to my need or my ability. Usually settle on doing both.

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  91. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Karl Marx Birthday Special: Two-for-one on sublation.

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  92. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    It is not consciousness that determines la vida loca, but la vida loca that determines consciousness.

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  93. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Have you hugged the Proletariat today?

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  94. Esther Adaire ‏@EstherAdaire5 May

    Dating profile: I'm like Sylvia Plath with tattoos.

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  95. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Maybe God is just a dead metaphor.

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  96. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    It gets bitter.

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  97. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    God died so that Werner Herzog might live.

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  98. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    God is dead. Twitter is his epitaph.

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  99. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Monotheism: Jesus is Lord. Evangelism: Jesus saves. Hedonism: Jesus, I'm wasted.

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  100. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Blessed are the fashionably unfashionable.

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  101. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Some tweets are a message in a bottle. Most are a bottle in a bottle.

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  102. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Before there were DM's there were perfumed letters on stationery sold only in that little shop hidden in a side street in Montmartre.

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  103. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    On Twitter, as in life, there is no undelete.

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  104. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Philosophizing with a hammer is good, but sometimes I like to add a sickle.

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  105. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Nietzsche: philosophize with a hammer. Heidegger: philosophize the hammer. Twitter: philosophize while hammered.

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  106. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Never read Foucault without supervision.

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  107. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    In the long run, all Harvard professors are dead, too.

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  108. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    First addition to my summer reading list: 's "A Primer for Philosophy & Education."

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  109. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    When will capitalism collapse under its own weight? I've seen a vision of that cold day in hell.

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  110. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Marxists never should have started reading Beckett.

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  111. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Revolutions don't come to those who wait.

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  112. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    For the Marxist who has everything. Except a handbag that doesn't scream bourgeois.

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  113. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Forget everything I've ever told you, but do remember this.

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  114. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

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  115. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    First as tragedy. Then as farce. Then as aesthetic theory.

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  116. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Happy Cinco de Marxo.

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  117. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    When celebrating Marx's birthday, workers of the world, don't get all drunk and lose your chains again.

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  118. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    It's a beautiful day for class struggle.

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  119. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Does this spectre make my Europe look haunted?

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  120. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Imagine a world in which brunch had instead been called lunchfast.

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  121. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    The purist will only eat brunch with a spork.

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  122. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    You don't have to inhabit the bourgeois dreamworld of the commodity to enjoy brunch, but it helps.

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  123. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 May

    Thank Susan It's Sontag.

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  124. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Some day in a far-off future they'll read our dusty tweets, shake their head, and say "Dude..."

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  125. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    140 characters is often 140 too many.

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  126. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Sometimes I wonder if our public sphere has expanded or if social media has just made us all smaller.

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  127. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Before social media there was talking to strangers on the bus.

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  128. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Like sans serif through the hourglass, so are the days of our twitter-mediated lives.

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  129. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Friends don't let friends read Nietzsche superficially.

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  130. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    So many bottles. So few messages.

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  131. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    One of the shortest German words can take the longest to hear.

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  132. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Be the pipe you wish to see in the world.

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  133. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    I'm sorry, Mr."Pipe," but I'm going to have to see some ID.

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  134. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    The philosophical aphorism is a ship in a bottle. The tweet is a shipwreck.

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  135. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    I suspect the future will arrive looking tired and out of sorts.

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  136. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    "I don't see any pipe."

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  137. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Alles klar?

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  138. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Attention people of Brooklyn: I'll be living among you in June/July. Let's have a beer sometime.

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  139. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    I sometimes wonder if poetry is more about writing lines or breaking them.

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  140. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    I'm just here to celebrate social media's rich tapestry of pathology.

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  141. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Love is admitting that you have a problem. It's called Twitter.

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  142. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    If you can define love, please don't.

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  143. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Love is a cruel mistress.

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  144. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Love is letting her tickle your Tickle Me Werner Herzog.

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  145. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    When I first fell in love, I was misdiagnosed as French.

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  146. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Love is not what makes the world go round. That's capital. But, hey, fuck capital.

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  147. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Love is ja. But sometimes nein.

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  148. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Love is remembering a tweet. Any tweet.

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  149. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Fools fall in love with Europe. The wise, in it.

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  150. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    To love is what makes us human. But consider doing it anyway.

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  151. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    What you and I have, my darling commodity, is fetishization. It's love minus the mystification.

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  152. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    First as tragedy. Then as farce. Then as methodology.

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  153. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Once you understand that Germans have a sense of humor, you probably are one.

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  154. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Failed artists become dictators. Failed intellectuals become artists, then fail and become dictators.

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  155. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Arranging my books alphabetically by type of lover I intend their conspicuous display to attract.

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  156. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    I dream of a world in which Erudite is a Greek god.

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  157. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Arranging my books this weekend by relative depth of interior monologue.

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  158. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Intention died so that the death of the author might live.

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  159. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Your means of production or mine?

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  160. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Even if irony's lost its charm, charm is in little danger of losing its irony.

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  161. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    First we made the commodity a fetish. Then culture an industry. Then Twitter a news source.

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  162. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Thus walked Zarathustra into a bar.

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  163. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    German has ways of making you talk.

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  164. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    If you don't know what love is, but you know what it isn't, you might like Hegel.

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  165. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    You don't have to be an academic to lead a life of quiet desperation and impotent rage, but it helps.

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  166. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Call me Ishmael. Maybe.

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  167. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Before social media there was society and media. Neither was any good then either.

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  168. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Twitter as intermission chatter at the theater of the repressed.

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  169. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Remember, friends, praxis only dies in theory.

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  170. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Theory and praxis walk into a bar. Praxis, pointing to theory: "I'll have what he's thinking of having."

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  171. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    A Gesamtkunstwerk walks into a bar, orders one bar.

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  172. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    When in doubt, umlaut.

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  173. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    If Twitter doesn't save culture, what will?

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  174. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Twitter needs a Collect As Evidence of Our General Cultural Malaise button.

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  175. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Another beautiful day for despair.

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  176. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Maybe God's just dead inside.

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  177. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    My Doppelgänger reminds me of someone I used to know.

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  178. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Twitter as a disoriented penguin's journey to the mountains, and certain death.

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  179. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    If there's one thing my Doppelgänger's taught me, it's how special we all are.

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  180. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    In dumping me, my Doppelgänger gave me the old "It's not you, it's you."

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  181. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    A weekend just isn't a weekend without ü.

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  182. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Before social media we were forced to endure isolation and ignorance. But mainly just our own.

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  183. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    A nice feature of German GPS systems is Werner Herzog telling you why each destination is more empty and unforgiving than the last.

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  184. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Every German noun is capitalized. That might explain their God complex.

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  185. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Sadly, I have diagnosed several of you with German Deficit Disorder. Sadder still is the cure.

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  186. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Literature: Write what you know. Criticism: Know what you write. Literary Theory: Know what they don't know about what they write.

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  187. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    The future of social media is all critical theory jokes and puns on Heidegger.

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  188. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    On the Internet, nobody knows you're not a pipe.

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  189. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Is that not a pipe, René, or are you just not happy to see me?

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  190. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    This is not a pipe. = Magritte. This is not not a pipe. = Hegel. This is not a this. = Wittgenstein.

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  191. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    René Magritte walks into a bakery and asks for a pipe. Baker, pointing to a muffin: "This is not a pipe." Magritte: "I'll take two."

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  192. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Sociologists: This is not a just society. Feminists: This is not an equal society. Literary Theorists: This is not a pipe.

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  193. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents. Twitter: Discontents and Their Civilization.

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  194. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Maybe Freud is best read as philosophy, Marx as geography, and Nietzsche as Nietzsche.

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  195. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    German adjectives don't care how you end either.

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  196. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Ja, there's a music to German grammar. Nein, you do not want to hear it.

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  197. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    Look at me. = Instagram. Look at my cats. = Facebook. Look at my grammar. = Twitter.

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  198. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    In German, "Gift" means poison. Please give wisely.

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  199. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    The German "also" does not mean "also." It means: "Pay close attention, for I am about to berate you at length."

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  200. Juliana de A. K. ‏@the_stardust4 May

    Did you read Cosmo today?

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  201. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    The love of words = philology. The love of wisdom = philosophy. The love of twitter = pathology.

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  202. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 May

    You're only as ephemeral as your last tweet.

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  203. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    When umlauts sleep, they dream of rounded lips saying silent prayers.

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  204. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Who needs when there's the DSM IV/V?

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  205. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    I fear that "the Humanities" has become one of those plurals that lack the singular.

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  206. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Too bad none of the good entendres are single.

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  207. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Social media dreams of the day that we're only strangers to ourselves.

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  208. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    A leitmotif walks into a bar. A leitmotif walks into a bar. A leitmotif walks into a bar.

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  209. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    German syntax a bar into walks.

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  210. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    A dead author walks into a Barthes.

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  211. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Foucault and the panopticon walk into a bar. Nobody notices.

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  212. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Art and kitsch walk into a bar. Kitsch orders a beer. Art orders art.

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  213. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Civilization and its discontents walk into a bar. Civilization: "They'll have what I'm having."

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  214. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Freud and the Wolfman walk into a bar. Bartender asks to see some id.

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  215. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Werner Herzog and Werner Herzog's narration of Werner Herzog walking into a bar walk into a bar.

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  216. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Greece and Germany walk into a bar. Bartender: "Who's buying?" Germany: "I am, but give my friend the bill."

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  217. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Socialist Realism Sext: I think we might share a class interest in cooperative farming.

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  218. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Serotonin Sext: My re-uptake is considerably less inhibited this evening.

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  219. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Foucauldian Sext: I see you watching me.

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  220. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Prussian SEXT: I'm reading Hegel, wearing a pointy helmet, erecting a vaunted bureaucracy.

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  221. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Zeppeliner Sext: I await you fully inflated, tethered, in danger of exploding.

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  222. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Bourgeois Academic Marxist Sext: Wearing that red tie with my sweater vest just for you. And the People.

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  223. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Marxist Sext: You have needs. I have abilities.

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  224. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    I wonder where the box thinks.

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  225. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Rhetoric: The art of persuasion. Politics: The art of compromise. Political Rhetoric: The art of compromised persuasion.

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  226. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Maybe autocorrect is right. Maybe Hegel really is "hair gel."

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  227. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Theatrics = To be or not to be. Dialectics = To be and not to be. Politics = To be, to poll, then not to be.

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  228. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    History will show that our first mistake was autocorrect.

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  229. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    I sometimes wonder if the present isn't on the wrong side of history.

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  230. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    A tweet is a message in a bottle. A DM is a message in a bottle in a brown paper bag.

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  231. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    I dream of a world in which "bitte schön" doesn't autocorrect to "bitch, please."

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  232. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Materialism = It is what it is. Idealism = It is what we think it is. Skepticism = It is not.

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  233. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Twitter: the literary salon of broken dreams still half-written.

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  234. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    If you couldn't imagine Werner Herzog narrating your weekend, you're not doing it right.

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  235. cszabla ‏@cszabla3 May

    is this what happens when a dialectic gets taken one thesis too far?

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  236. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    I remember when wtf wasn't a lifestyle.

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  237. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Hegel would want you to go out this weekend. And stay in.

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  238. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Sex, drugs, and Rilke.

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  239. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    It's a beautiful day for class struggle.

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  240. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    This weekend might be a good time to finish the German word you starting saying last weekend.

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  241. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    I wonder what the avant garde's doing tonight.

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  242. Amanda Mancino ‏@Manda_like_wine29 Apr

    Prepare thine lenses, merry food photographers, gazpacho season is nearly upon us!

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  243. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Every tweet a silent prayer waiting to be unanswered.

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  244. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    First as tragedy. Then as and . Then as .

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  245. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    I suggest you follow my favorite ex machina before he just pops up out of nowhere.

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  246. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    13.5% more weekend.

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  247. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Berlin fans, follow my friends . Anywhere.

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  248. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Love is in the air.

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  249. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Thank Gustav it's Freytag.

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  250. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Thus got Zarathustra his Friday on.

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  251. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    What the fuck? = exposition. What, the fuck? = dialogue. Fuck! = climax. Fuck. = denouement.

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  252. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Why the fuck? = philosophy. When the fuck? = history. The fuck? = philosophy of history.

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  253. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    what the fuck? = plot. where the fuck? = setting. who the fuck? = Russian novels.

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  254. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    First as tragedy. Then as farce. Then as final exam essay question.

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  255. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    It's a beautiful day for radical aesthetic experimentation.

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  256. DAAD North America ‏@DAADnewyork2 May

    Fun facts about Germany

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  257. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    Thank Goethe It's Friday.

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  258. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 May

    It seems never sleeps. Maybe we're the monster under its bed.

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  259. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    There's something profoundly unsettling in being awoken by a dream.

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  260. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    When broken dreams sleep, they fear dreaming the dream they once were.

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  261. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    We were two dreams breaking in the night.

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  262. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    When deleted tweets sleep, they dream of a world in which its and it's are never confused.

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  263. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    You say tomato, I say this is not a pipe.

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  264. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    One thing every humanities Ph.D. leaves grad school with is tastes they cannot afford.

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  265. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    My Doppelgänger thinks we should start resembling other people.

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  266. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    German is for lovers. Of grammar.

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  267. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    I'm more afraid that we're doomed to repeat our present.

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  268. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    When you feel sad, just imagine Kafka and Borges having a pillow fight.

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  269. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    Long story short: philosophy fetishizes the truth; theory fetishizes itself.

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  270. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    The love of knowledge = philosophy. The love of a philosopher = poor life decision.

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  271. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    The difference between "philosophy" and "theory"? The former's in love with knowledge; the latter's more into doubt.

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  272. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    Most Idealist philosophers have simply run out of material.

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  273. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    The more you say you're "edgy," the more I'm secretly downgrading you to "quirky."

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  274. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    A philosopher without German is like a clown without a crooked smile and a serious drinking problem.

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  275. Loretta ‏@laRossa052 May

    I like

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  276. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    Signifying nothing is harder than it looks.

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  277. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    Ethics: the code anyone can break.

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  278. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    Never trust a Marxist without an aesthetic theory.

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  279. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    I'll pardon your French. Not your German.

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  280. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    Let's hope the future forgets us kindly.

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  281. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    Sometimes to love your social media platform is to suffer.

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  282. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    I miss hope.

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  283. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    what the fuck? = skepticism. what is not not the fuck? = dialectics. there's a fuck? = nihilism.

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  284. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    what the fuck? = journalism. really, what the fuck? = investigative journalism. what? fuck. = Internet journalism.

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  285. Laura Hall ‏@manishka782 May

    Ceci n'est pas une pipe: "Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938" opens at MOMA on Sept. 28.

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  286. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    You know Germans: if they're not denking, they're just dichting around.

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  287. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    At least the prison house of language sometimes has good reading material.

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  288. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    Come for the Discipline. Stay for the Punish.

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  289. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    Remember, friends, German can say what words never could.

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  290. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    It's a beautiful day for despair.

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  291. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    I went to grad school. What's your excuse?

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  292. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    Enough wtf. Today let us proudly proclaim that this, yes, this is the fuck.

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  293. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    I lost some of my best friends to paradigm shifts.

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  294. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    Add a day-old bagel and yesterday's paper to that reheated coffee to make a charming tableau of regret.

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  295. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    Because cultural decline.

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  296. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    Hipster "ironic" = academic hipster "allegorical."

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  297. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    Conjugate me maybe.

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  298. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 May

    When you dream in German, all your dreams are uneasy.

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  299. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 May

    Some of my best friends are Twitter personas.

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  300. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 May

    My Weltanschauung wants to start seeing other worlds.

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  301. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 May

    Friends don't let friends quote Lacan.

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  302. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 May

    C'mon, baby, leit my motif.

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  303. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 May

    I used to be part of the problem. Then I went all in.

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  304. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 May

    The television will not be revolutionized.

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  305. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 May

    I'm glad the Revolution won't be televised. Imagine the commercials.

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  306. Andrea Pitzer ‏@andreapitzer1 May

    My piece for is up! MT : Nabokov Wins One for the Islanders. …

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  307. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 May

    Another ending and no one invited me to their revolution.

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  308. Jan Mieszkowski ‏@janmpdx1 May

    " Ontology = what the fuck? Epistemology = why the fuck? Phenomenology = the fuck." Phonology = fŭk, /fʌk/, /fVk/.

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  309. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 May

    what the fuck? = research question. how the fuck? = methodology. those fucks = lit. review.

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  310. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 May

    Ontology = what the fuck? Epistemology = why the fuck? Phenomenology = the fuck.

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  311. Goethe-Institut NY ‏@GI_NewYork1 May

    Another reason to love Berlin: Street-Level Change, a Name at a Time

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  312. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 May

    It was the best of times. It was the worst of Zeitgeists.

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  313. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 May

    If you're in Philadelphia and in the mood for German theater tonight. (I star in the scene from "Morn to Midnight.")

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  314. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 May

    It's a beautiful day for dialectics.

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  315. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    Twitter has destroyed contemporary culture, but it's also had its downside.

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  316. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    April's almost over, friends, but don't let your guard down. Every month is the cruelest.

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  317. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    German grammar doesn't understand you.

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  318. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    Sadly, many protected tweets grow up to be rather bratty haiku.

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  319. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    I shall assume your protected tweets are fragile yet bravely poignant vignettes.

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  320. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    1st rule of the Twitter aphorism: Always sound like you know what you're talking about. 2nd rule: Remember that you don't.

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  321. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    Don't get upset when you confuse it's with its. Capitalism does it all the time.

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  322. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    Those who bemoan the decline of civilization are a little pessimistic and far too late.

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  323. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    If society should some day deem tweeting an art, just imagine our kitsch.

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  324. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    I wonder what poets wrote before there were tweets.

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  325. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    There are really only two types of people. Those who love ü, and those who do not love.

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  326. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    I'll tell you what brings all the Beuys to the yard: fat, maybe felt.

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  327. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    "Zeitgeist" is Amerikan English for "I minored in Comp. Lit."

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  328. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    If you knew that ü is an emoticon, you might find German a lot cuter.

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  329. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    Sometimes I'm lost in translation; at others I'm hiding.

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  330. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    Maybe we should just organize society alphabetically and be done with it.

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  331. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    Arranging my books by expiration date of their cultural relevance.

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  332. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    First as tragedy. Then as farce. Then as social media platform.

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  333. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    "My phone's gotta be here somewhere."

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  334. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    German haiku is even shorter. My favorite:

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  335. DAAD North America ‏@DAADnewyork29 Apr

    SPASS: An Indian graphic novelist's view of Berlin...faszinierend!

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  336. DAAD North America ‏@DAADnewyork30 Apr

    SPASS: What would you add to the list of "Dos and Don'ts" in Germany?

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  337. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    Some days you don't even know which paradigm to shift first.

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  338. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    I suggest starting the day as a Bildungsroman. End it as a cautionary tale.

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  339. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    If it weren't for class struggle, I don't know how I'd get out of bed in the morning.

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  340. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    Take a minute to consider how Werner Herzog might narrate your life right now. Feel better?

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  341. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Apr

    Dienstag is for lovers.

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  342. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Apr

    Twitter: Come for the boundless potential, stay for the malaise.

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  343. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Apr

    You say tomato, I say dialectics. You say potato, I say dialectics.

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  344. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Apr

    You'll know you're thinking in German when it all takes a little longer.

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  345. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Apr

    Think outside the denial.

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  346. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Apr

    It might be time to ask if you created your online persona, or if it created you.

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  347. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Apr

    Greece gave us democracy. Italy gave us politics.

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  348. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Apr

    Clearly, social media's main contribution has been to our discussion of social media.

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  349. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Apr

    I'm just here for the shared sense of alienation.

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  350. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    You say tomato, I say all beauty is in struggle.

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  351. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    Remember, friends, that there was a time before social media. And there might be a time after.

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  352. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    Nietzsche might have taken us beyond the good and the bad, but not the ugly.

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  353. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    Twitter: the uneasy dreams from which Gregor Samsa never awakens.

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  354. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    Don't feel bad, silence. It's the situation that's awkward.

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  355. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    I remember when you could get away from your computer by getting away from your computer.

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  356. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    And on the eighth day, God made next Monday.

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  357. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    How many bourgeois academic Marxists does it take to dialectically illuminate a lightbulb?

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  358. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    Aesthetics: beautiful or ugly? Ethics: right or wrong? Logic: wrong or ugly?

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  359. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    Sorry, Communist utopia, my needs *are* my ability.

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  360. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    School: True or False. College: True and False. Grad School: False until proven True and False.

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  361. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    Dichtung + Wahrheit = Goethe. Dichtung - Wahrheit = Werther. Dichtung - Dichtung = Schiller.

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  362. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    How Germany sees the world ... in higher resolution. (via )

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  363. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    Tell us where you buried God.

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  364. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    I still remember having a future.

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  365. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    The death of God we can deal with. The death of our smartphone batteries, we cannot.

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  366. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    Go zweck your selbst.

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  367. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    All I ask is that you have the decency to commodify me before fetishizing.

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  368. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    Your inevitable bitterness and disappointment or mine?

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  369. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    Good things don't come to Godots who wait.

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  370. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    I gave a lecture on Nietzsche in Reno just to watch God die.

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  371. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    In Italy, unanswered prayers are known as "votes."

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  372. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly28 Apr

    Maybe all politics is Italian.

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  373. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Beginning to think that social media is neither.

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  374. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Thank Susan It's Sontag.

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  375. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    A long-forgotten chunk of Gorgonzola in the back of my fridge is the new spectre haunting Europe.

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  376. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    In my experience, Austrian nuns don't much care which things are your favorite.

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  377. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    I miss society.

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  378. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Wandering where our lust went.

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  379. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Every Hansel has a tale of regrettal.

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  380. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Sorry, but when I hear "fairy-tale ending," I think a half-digested grandma being cut out of a wolf's stomach.

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  381. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Ach, Twitter.

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  382. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Turns out it wasn't love. Just a painting of love.

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  383. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    I remember when the unthinkable was the untweetable.

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  384. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Cite me maybe.

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  385. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Johnny Cash has always been my favorite aesthetic theorist.

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  386. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    I mechanically reproduced a painting of Reno just to watch its aura die.

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  387. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    There's strong. There's very strong. And then there's killed Nietzsche strong.

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  388. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Ich sage lieber Wochenuntergang.

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  389. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    All politics is aesthetic.

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  390. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    If we ever found what we lost in translation, we probably wouldn't recognize it.

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  391. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Maybe God just speaks a dead language.

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  392. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    If you're anywhere near London, please check out this show at awesöme for me: .

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  393. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Dare to dream. In German.

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  394. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Collectivize me maybe.

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  395. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Sorry, I was just admiring your equitable distribution of wealth.

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  396. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Never trust a Marxist who can spell bourgeois.

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  397. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Twitter: where the masses are their own opium.

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  398. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly27 Apr

    Yes, workers of the world, I know: it's so much easier to lose a smartphone than your chains.

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  399. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Until my account is verified, , I will have to assume that you don't exist either.

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  400. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    I found dreaming the impossible dream only led to sleeping the impossible sleep.

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  401. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Sweet broken dreams.

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  402. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Wishing you a weekend worthy of Werner Herzog narration.

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  403. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Some of my best friends were lost in translation.

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  404. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    I always forget if you should only tweet when you drink or only drink when you tweet.

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  405. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Don't worry: I'll delete myself in the morning.

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  406. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    My weekend plans are a bit like Marx's vision of Communism: never quite sure what they are, but I know they'll be good.

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  407. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    My less bourgeois Marxist friends always have interesting five-year-plans for the weekend.

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  408. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    First rule of Bourgeois Academic Marxist Weekend Club: No plans.

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  409. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    You call them "tweets." I call them "flowers of evil."

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  410. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Maybe Twitter is addicted to *us*.

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  411. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    The good news is that social media has transformed the way we communicate. This is also the bad news.

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  412. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Any NYers need plants watered in June/July? I know a tidy misanthropic aesthete who's looking for a summer home. (neinquarterly@gmail.com)

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  413. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    "I don't get it."

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  414. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    You don't have to be shy about learning German. Say you just read it for the articles.

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  415. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    There's something in the air.

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  416. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Uhm, yes, this is one of my favorite things.

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  417. DAAD North America ‏@DAADnewyork26 Apr

    5 things not to do when returning from abroad

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  418. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Every spring I fall in love with ü all over again.

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  419. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Thank Goethe It's Friday.

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  420. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    In addition to their tasteful tote bags, I've been told also has some good books.

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  421. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Like Kultur? Get some here: , , , , , , .

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  422. Zenon ‏@kaot5026 Apr

    :Begegnung mit Werner Herzog: Der Kinosoldat im heiligen Land

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  423. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Nothing's more dangerous than an unreconstructed Deconstructionist.

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  424. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Theology = Thank God It's Friday. Philosophy = Thank Gadamer It's Friday. Analytic Philosophy = Thank It It's Friday.

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  425. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Thus got Zarathustra his Friday on.

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  426. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Just smile and look naturalized.

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  427. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Deconstruct inside the box.

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  428. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly26 Apr

    Freitag!

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  429. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

    It's just a matter of time before Hashtag becomes a German day of the week.

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  430. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

    I was late to class struggle again today.

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  431. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

    The bottle *is* the message.

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  432. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

    I've never met a German preposition I could trust.

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  433. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

    The Revolution will not be 3D printed.

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  434. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

    Alert me when 3D printers can print hope.

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  435. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

    I can only imagine that something unspeakable happens when a 3D printer jams.

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  436. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

    If only I were as well-read as my books are well-traveled.

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  437. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

    Asking someone if they've read all their books is like opening their fridge and asking when they'll be eating all their mustard.

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  438. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

    Our unread books spend their days perched on dusty shelves reading us.

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  439. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

    Whenever asked if you've actually read all those books, simply smile and ask your visitor if they have any reason to suspect you haven't.

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  440. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

    If you've actually read all the books you own, you're not doing it right.

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