Defending Derrida

(this post was written by Kyle on February 28, 2006, and it concerns & & & & )

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 [...]

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Things I Learned During the Week of February 13-19

(this post was written by Kyle on February 19, 2006, and it concerns & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & )

There once was a post called Gobbledygook. It was posted more often than you could look. It showed up once a week, looking tired and meek. But was also as long as a book.
Here are some of the things I learned this week…

…from movies:

That there’s only so many times I can watch a movie about [...]

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What I Learned During the Week of January 22-28

(this post was written by Kyle on January 27, 2006, and it concerns & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & )

Last Friday, I introduced a new feature here on Fluid Imagination called Gobbledygook. The Gobbledygook posts are a catch-all for the things I’ve learned over the past week. So, why don’t we get started?
Here’s what I learned this week…

…from moving pictures:

That the tragedy of Malcolm X is not that he was killed, but that he [...]

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Embracing the Interface

(this post was written by Kyle on December 15, 2005, and it concerns & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & )

“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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Neo-pragmatism: Ideas at Work

(this post was written by Kyle on December 14, 2005, and it concerns & & & & & & & & & & & )

As near as I can tell, the entire philosophy of neo-pragmatism is based on the assumption that philosophy is supposed to work. But for the life of me, I’m not 100% sure what it is that philosophy is supposed to work on. I suspect that it is a theory of “judgment,” but again, I’m not [...]

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To breathe is not to struggle

(this post was written by Kyle on May 19, 2005, and it concerns & & & & & )

The natural tendency of theory — of what unites philosophy and science in the epistémè — will push rather toward filling in the breach than forcing the closure.— p. 92
[A] man calls himself [a] man only by drawing limits excluding his other from the play…— p. 244
It appears…that [a] man…is cultivated [by his culture]: he [...]

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