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Bookmark The Fantasy Author H.P. Lovecraft at 125: Genius, Cult Icon, Racist -…
American history is filled with writers whose genius was underappreciated—or altogether ignored—in their lifetime. Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems weren’t discovered and published until after her death. F. Scott Fitzgerald “died…

August 29 2015, 3:36pm | Comments
Wikipedia Otherkin Otherkin are a community of people who see themselves as partially or entirely non-human. They contend that they are, in spirit if not in body,[2] not human. This is explained by some members of the otherkin community as possible through reincarnation, having a…

May 1 2013, 2:02pm | Comments
Portfolio An Object Oriented Glitch Ontology?

December 10 2012, 3:22pm | Comments
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Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken

September 5 2012, 1:20am | Comments
Bookmark Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken
The ultimate design material is one that understands what it is to become. By way of an example, I’d like to think about how we might design a chicken. Think of…

September 5 2012, 1:20am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) "The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is..."
“The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is entirely external; it results from manufacture; I know what the object I have made is; I can make another one like it, but I would not be…

April 25 2012, 4:24pm | Comments
Bookmark Being Human (Blame it on Andy)
Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a person…

September 29 2011, 3:55am | Comments
Bookmark Death Is Not the End (Long Live theory!)
Was theory a gigantic hoax? On the contrary. It was the only salvation, for a twenty year period, from two colossal abdications by American thinkers and writers. From about 1975 to…

August 18 2011, 1:48am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community
“The novelty of the coming politics is that it will no longer be a struggle for the conquest or control of the State, but a struggle between the State and the non-state (humanity), an insurmountable disjunction between whatever singularity and the State organization.” -…

August 9 2011, 4:27pm | Comments
Bookmark Secularism and Its Discontents
These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that they…

August 9 2011, 3:57pm | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics
“Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this is nothing. It is calculably nothing.…

July 7 2011, 12:03pm | Comments
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April 15 2011, 7:58am | Comments
Bookmark The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings
If you try to describe the living processes of the cell in a rather more living language than is typically found in the literature of molecular biology — if you resort…

April 6 2011, 1:48pm | Comments
Bookmark Into the Uncanny Valley
Disturbing experiences that feel both familiar and strange are instances of the “uncanny,” an intuitive concept, yet one that has defied simple explanation for more than a century. Interest in the…

December 7 2009, 5:08pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments
Bookmark Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia
In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical…

March 12 2009, 6:08pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter The phenomenology of text The phenomenology / ontology of text: has anyone examined this issue directly in philosophical, literary and/or critical terms? I am interested in the experience and perception of text, both within readership and on an abstract (more holistic level perhaps) as the archetypical mediator…

September 18 2008, 8:21am | Comments

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