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Embracing the Interface

“In metaphysics, a being is in a relation with what it cannot absorb, with what it cannot, in the etymological sense, comprehend.” - Emmanuel Levinas, Totality & Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority.
What is the ontological status of that space where the software meets the hardware? I’m not speaking technically here. Technically, that space is way [...]

Wrasslin’ With God

For my independent study in Philosophy of Technology, I’m reading Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millenium, by Albert Borgman. Of the books I’ve read so far for the class, this is easily the most engaging (apart from Heidegger, but that’s only because I seem to be ridiculously [...]

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