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When René Descartes, sitting in his armchair in Leiden in 1641, invites his readers to meditate alongside him, you get the sense he could do with the company.
August 21 2019, 4:09am | Comments
In “Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?” Ihab Hassan uses the metaphor of the mythological Prometheus to frame his discussion on posthumanism and positions him as a trickster with a…
December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface
April 18 2012, 12:29am | Comments
December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Good sense is the most fairly distributed commodity in the world, Descartes once quipped, because nobody thinks he needs any more of it than he already has. A neat illustration of…
September 16 2010, 7:12am | Comments
A starry firmament, or sand cascading through one’s open fingers, or weeds springing up time after time: the first conception of infinity, of the uncountable and the unending, is not recorded,…
August 5 2010, 3:18am | Comments
March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments
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