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mattvolatile

29 / M / straight / Single

London, United Kingdom

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The cake is not a lie, he is the cake - visually and intellectually. read more

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Ethnicity
White
Height
5' 6" (1.67m).
Body Type
Average
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New friends, Long-term dating, Short-term dating, Activity partners, Casual sex
Smokes
No
Drinks
Often
Drugs
Sometimes
Religion
Atheism and very serious about it
Sign
Aries but it doesn’t matter
Education
Working on Ph.D program
Job
Education / Academia
Income
$40,000–$50,000
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Languages
English (Fluently), French (Fluently), German (Fluently), Finnish (Poorly)

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I am curious, bookish, and tattooed.

My Self-Summary

Twenty-nine year old quidnunc and neophile. I graduated with a Master's degree with distinction in critical theory and am currently researching for a PhD in Art History.

I'm a libertine, and a lush. I'm a pro-sex, pro-feminist, liberal (not libertarian), communitarian. I'm a pragmatic, non-dogmatic vegan; a humanist; an existentialist (more de Beauvoir than Sartre); an atheist; a sceptic; a wide-eyed, excited and excitable human being.

What I’m doing with my life

Writing, feverishly.

I’m really good at

Absorbing information, which is useful for pub-quizzes. I'm also make a mean cup of tea.

The first things people usually notice about me

Heavy tattoo coverage and an open smile.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food

Favourite Books: The Second Sex - de Beauvoir; Capitalism and Schizophrenia - Deleuze and Guattari; Mediations - Marcus Aurelius; On Friendship - Montaigne

I own hundreds and hundreds of books, principally on the broad topic of the body - everything from anthropology to aesthetics, queer theory to neuroscience, pornography to phenomenology. Dead bodies, live bodies, bodies for sale. Bodies as art. Bodies as currency. Bodies from antiquity to the unimaginable far future. I love somatic philosophers - Montaigne, Nietzsche, Foucault, Lipps, Dewey, de Beauvoir, Merelau-Ponty, Anzieu; somatic poets - Whitman, e.e cummings; somatic artists - Nauman, Brus, Sierra. Mendietta, Mappelthorpe, Barney.

If I had more room in my flat, I'd have so many more.

I DJ music from the 1880s - early 1960s: country, bluegrass, blues, gospel, rockabilly, rock and roll, jazz, swing, jive, doo-wop and garage, with a smattering of dark and dirty European exploitation movie soundtracks. I'm also into punk, hardcore and anything performed with passion, honesty and truth.

As for food: Marmite, and anything spicy; the hotter the better. Curries or Mexican food especially. Oh, and I'm vegan, so lots of salads.

The six things I could never do without

- A daily dose of current affairs - newspaper, the Today programme, rolling news, I'm not fussy.

- Friends to lend me their ears

- My thesaurus

- My tongue. Well, two tongues, technically.

- The right side of my brain

I spend a lot of time thinking about

Aesthetic philosophy, recently. That and ethics, politics, pedagogical practice and what I'm going to have for tea. Put the kettle on!

On a typical Friday night I am

drinking real ale and arguing about something robustly trivial. Lions or bears? Summer or winter? Cake or death?

The most private thing I’m willing to admit here

is that I once tied up a masochist and refused to hurt her.

You should message me if

You're covered in tattoos, you bruise easily, have read "Being and Nothingness" by J-P Sartre and want to share your safe-word with me.