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Heidegger

  • Gestures of Belonging

    The fall has brought to fuller expression many notions with which I have been struggling for decades. The process of getting to a greater clarity has been difficult on my personal and professional relationships. In striving to find a path between friends… Continue reading

    Gestures of Belonging

  • The Question Concerning Technoscience

    A good show from the BBC. I begin the episode a bit of the way in. Worth watching the whole thing, but this gives you a taste of things to come in Humanity 2.0… Maybe. Continue reading

    The Question Concerning Technoscience

  • Alone Together: thoughts on José Saramago’s The Cave

    Originally posted on Pomp and Intertext: Click the picture to read in the Quarterly Conversation how Saramago has begun to blog at the age of 85. “Heidegger’s analysis of metaphysical truth as Aletheia (the unveiled), that of Plato’s myth of… Continue reading

    Alone Together: thoughts on José Saramago’s The Cave

  • Hermes

    Little lean, wing-footed god How this big fat hobbling man Found himself in your service? Guide of souls at life’s end Messenger of divine will Lover of Desire herself… Send me some dream from ether, Hash me a smoky idea,… Continue reading

    Hermes

  • Along the Great Way

    “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” – Laozi “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha “Oh beloved Phaedrus, where are you going & from whence do you come?”… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20130213

    Fretfully making, busily doing, absent the leisurely stretch that birthed Mona Lisa; heedless we run, without time for thinking’s yawning abyss: profound boredom.    Continue reading

  • Recalling This Beautiful Order

    In attempting to philosophize as a way of life, I have often “translated” many terms/concepts into a single notion that would comprehend the nuances of diverse sages across time & cultures. Whether I succeed is another story entirely. A particularly… Continue reading

  • A Nice Entrée into Object Oriented Ontology

    Yesterday I had the pleasure of doing an interview with Heather Duncan and Alex Reid concerning digital humanities, blogging, twitter, and to a lesser degree object-oriented ontology. With any luck it will be posted, alongside a host of other interviews… Continue reading

  • The Drama of Existentialism – NYTimes.com

    I am always impressed by the frisson in my class when students realize that there’s a sense in which Sartre is right: they could, right now, get up, leave the classroom, drop out of school, and go live as beach… Continue reading

  • Whatever Etc 0015: Death as Advisor

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  • Daily chart: Buy me a river | The Economist

    The weekly magazine The Economist reports on a new index that  attempts to take stock of countries’ total wealth… Daily chart: Buy me a river | The Economist. I shared this with my beloved friend Alex Mosiak. Here is our… Continue reading