Situatedness
DASEIN, Being-here, openness, having to be open, connectedness
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The Philosophy of the Technology of the Gun – Evan Selinger – The Atlantic
Dobbs questions the role of gun culture in steering “certain unhinged or deeply a-moral people toward the sort of violence that has now become so routine that the entire thing seems scripted.” But what about “normal” people? Yes, plenty of… Continue reading
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Textimony 20120720
At the limit we engage beginning & ending. At the boundary we embrace true concern & eschew false security. Now/here on the edge: nowhere. Continue reading
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Sartre and Camus in New York – NYTimes.com
At Vassar he [Camus] gave a lecture on “The Crisis of Mankind” and was dazzled by the spectacle of “an army of long-legged young starlets, lazing on the lawn.” But he was preoccupied by what he thought of as the… Continue reading
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textimony 20120620
dwelling on limits stalking farthest boundaries beautiful nowhere Continue reading
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The Revolt of the Masses & the Politics of the Big Lie
I am reminded, while reading this article, of Jose Ortega y Gasset’s Revolt of the Masses. One thing characterizing “mass humanity”–what I like to call the Ones-at-Large–is the notion that they do not need to be taught, they do not need… Continue reading
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Stars, Planets And The Meaningless Life : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
The talks on Kepler were delightful and I drank in all the new science like a thirsty kid on a hot summer day. But none of what I learned pushed me out of my comfort zone and on to the… Continue reading
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