A new beginning

(this post was written by Kyle on January 10, 2006, and it concerns & & & & & & & & & )

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 [...]

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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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Wrasslin’ With God

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

For my independent study in Philosophy of Technology, I’m reading Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millenium, by Albert Borgman. Of the books I’ve read so far for the class, this is easily the most engaging (apart from Heidegger, but that’s only because I seem to be ridiculously [...]

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Blogs as Consciousness

(this post was written by Kyle on October 1, 2005, and it concerns & & & )

Link: O’Reilly Network: What Is Web 2.0
Here is one of the more interesting descriptions of the blogosphere that I’ve read in quite a while:
If an essential part of Web 2.0 is harnessing collective intelligence, turning the web into a kind of global brain, the blogosphere is the equivalent of constant mental chatter in the [...]

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Metaphoremix

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

As most of you are aware, part of my focus the last few months has been coming up with a clear metaphorical conception of the self. I’ve been focusing on the Internet as the source of my metaphor (here, here, and here), but I’m still open to other ideas; however, the gist of the metaphor [...]

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A False and Meaningful Explanation of a Real and Historical Fact

(this post was written by Kyle on December 15, 2004, and it concerns & & & & & & & & & & & )

In 1984, a small group of people in Cupertino, California introduced the world to the computer for the rest of us. They told us that it was “a computer so personable it can practically shake hands.” They told us its name was Macintosh, and that it was just as powerful as all those other [...]

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George Lakoff is a liberal, goshdarnit!

(this post was written by Kyle on October 14, 2004, and it concerns & & & & & & & )

[Originally Posted on the old Fluid Imagination site]
Though George Lakoff attempts to be ideologically impartial throughout most of Moral Politics, he is a confessed liberal who feels there is scientific research to support his politics. The evidence suggests that:

The Nurturant Parent model is superior to the Strict Father model as a method of childrearing.

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