February 28, 2006 – 10:50 pm
I finished reading an awesome book last night. With a three-tiered title, it’s name is Literature Against Philosophy: Plato to Derrida: A defence of poetry, by University of Virginia professor, Mark Edmundson.
The book is exactly what the title says it is. Edmundson pits poetry (or really, any creative work) against the literary theorists whose modus [...]
January 10, 2006 – 12:41 am
There’s going to be an awful lot of talk going around this week about Apple Computers. On Tuesday, the company’s annual Macworld starts off with a Steve Jobs keynote, in which one of the last superstar CEOs is expected to announce the first Apple computer ever to use the Intel processor. No one knows exactly [...]
December 15, 2005 – 11:51 pm
“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 [...]
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Also tagged albert_borgman, Books, deconstruction, derrida, ethics, feminism, gui, heidegger, identity, interfaces, john_dewey, levinas, metaphor, operating_system, postmodernism, pragmatism, self, theory, writing
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November 30, 2005 – 06:37 pm
The White House released a 35-page document today entitled, “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq.” Since I only have to write a few web pages for work, five final papers for school, and construct a portfolio of my last three semesters for my level review, I figured that I had plenty of time to read [...]
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