Reality and fantasy don’t mix

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

Jean Baudrillard appears in a column on ESPN.com — ESPN DOT COM, mind you! From Chuck Klosterman’s essay, Reality and fantasy don’t mix: “I have no idea whether French post-structuralist Jean Baudrillard plays fantasy football…His theories, however, seem central to the totality of its existence.” Post-structuralism on ESPN. Sorry, but I just had to link [...]

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Things I Learned During the Week of Jan. 29 - Feb. 3

(this post was written by Kyle on February 3, 2006, and it concerns & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & )

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 [...]

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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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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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