Things I Learned During the Week of February 13-19
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 [...]
On Palestine
“…for a long period we acted as if our democracy were something that perpetuated itself automatically; as if our ancestors had succeeded in setting up a machine that solved the problem of perpetual motion in politics. We acted as if democracy were something that took place…when men and women went to the polls once a [...]
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 [...]
Neo-pragmatism: Ideas at Work
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 [...]
My Level Review
You know how you guys absolutely love to read my academic writing? How you love to read fifteen pages about Derrida, nineteen pages about language philosophy, seven pages about Feminism, ten pages about signifiers and signifieds, three pages about philosophy of metaphors, and all that junk? And you know how you’re always bugging me to [...]
