Now this is a mind-expanding article. In No Longer a Mind of Our Own, G.A. Bradshaw writes, “We now understand that all vertebrates, and it is argued even some invertebrates, share many biological structures and processes that underlie attributes once considered uniquely human: empathy, personality, culture, emotion, language, intention, tool-use and violence. Furthermore, we are [...]
February 28, 2006 – 12:21 am
In all of the relevant conversations occurring today, there needs to be a denouncing of the dualisms. Denounce any dualistic, antagonistic formulation that does not announce itself as a power relationship. The power relationship is nothing more or less than a strong power and a weak power. This power relationship must be met by the [...]
February 3, 2006 – 09:59 pm
Every week (for at least two weeks in a row now), I write up a list of all the things I’ve learned over the past week. This is a special little treat that I like to file under Gobbledygook. But enough of the explanatory note. On with the show.
Here’s what I learned this week…
…from moving [...]
By Kyle
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Posted in Gobbledygook
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Also tagged Apple, Books, bush, creative_writing, design, experience, Gobbledygook, gui, housewife, interfaces, internet, internet_explorer, levinas, Macintosh, monitor, montesquieu, morality, postmodernism, transitions, writing
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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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Posted in Deep Imagination
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Also tagged albert_borgman, Books, criticism, deconstruction, derrida, feminism, gui, heidegger, identity, interfaces, john_dewey, levinas, metaphor, operating_system, postmodernism, pragmatism, self, theory, writing
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December 6, 2005 – 07:30 am
Here’s a little bit of information regarding Emmanuel Levinas, a philosopher whose work will be the focus of one my independent studies next semester.
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