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What I Learned During the Week of January 22-28

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 [...]

Who should we ask about the “is”?

In preparation for reading Levinas, I’m reading sections from Heidegger’s Being and Time, and since I plan on blogging my reading experience with Levinas, I’ve decided to practice on Heidegger. Not more than a few minutes ago, I finished “The Necessity, Structure, and Priority of the Question of Being,” which is the first part of [...]

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 [...]

Mapping The System

We are trying to determine the semantic boundaries of the linguistic concept of technology. Some might suggest we are questioning toward the essence of technology, but that would imply that the concept of technology existed as something else, and that if only we could find the name of this something else, then the mystery of [...]

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