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A solace of mine, e.g., Merton: "The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men."
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Reading excerpts from Process and Reality and Modes of Thought , on the one hand, ignites hunger for a greater understanding, but on the other hand, highlights the lack thereof and, in today's day and age, the impossibility of a pos
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"A world gained for Technology is lost for Liberty" (Jean-Marie Straub, France Against the Robots ). "Loneliness without God is sheer madness. At least our ravings end in him, and thus we cure our mind and soul. God is a sor
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Steiner tends to go over my head too! In this case though, I find he does a good interpretation of Eckhart, e.g., this ringed true: > It can be said that the enlightened human being is the entity that determines good and evil from within
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Meister Eckhart by Rudolf Steiner(youtube.com)
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One of my favorite projects. I was most receptive to Athalye's[1] manner of teaching. 1. https://github.com/anishathalye
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> There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. (Michel de Montaigne, Essais ) Albert Camus dancing (Life Magazine): https:/&
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I experienced the closure of The Literary Guillotine, the small, academic bookstore, in the fall of 2019. But on the other side of the same block, there's Bad Animal[1], a small bookstore/restaurant: they have an incredibly impres
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One of my favorite pastimes (which allowed me to have a more fruitful relationship with my computer): Living in the Santa Cruz mountains, sauntering in the woods, swimming in a creek, basking in a meadow, biking down into town for coffee an
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It seems to me distraction hinges on some imaginative falsivity. Kafka, in effect: "Life is a continual distraction which does not even allow us to reflect on that from which we are being distracted."
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The intensification of AI only makes me surfacely interested in cybernetic-thought from theorists like Gilles Deleuze, Norbert Wiener and, of course, William Gibson. But even from the outlandish Nick Land: "AI is a meta-scientific cont
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> Hacking was huge on the 360 It was! I was a pre-teen then but I remember modded controllers and getting into modded lobbies. The only modding I did was USB modding my avatar and gamerscore, only to login a month or so later to the prom
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TeXShop[1] has been my editor of choice for years. 1. https://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop/
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Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age(archive.org)
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I don't listen to podcasts at all but oddly enough, I just came across the Hermitix[1] podcast today and found myself listening to it most of the day. > Hermitix is a podcast focusing on one-on-one interviews relating to fringe phil
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A lot of fascists in this thread, to no one's surprise.
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Barthes tends to render me vacuous with his literary/semiotic reverberations. But in the same lineage of thinking, you might find Foucault's "What is an Author?" (1969)[1] interesting. 1. https://www.open.edu&
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Harry Forbes and George Axon – Bits and Bytes TV Theme (Intro and Outro)(soundcloud.com)
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Byung-Chul Han: “I Practise Philosophy as Art”(artreview.com)
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What is Critical Metaphysics? (1999)(theanarchistlibrary.org)
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If anyone wants a hear of modern jazz, I'm liking Jazzwise's "The 20 Best Jazz Albums of 2022": https://www.jazzwise.com/features/article/the-20-best-jazz-a...
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On the contrary, see Adorno's "Punctuation Marks" (1956)[1][2], e.g.: > There is no element in which language resembles music more than in the punctuation marks. The comma and the period correspond to the half-cadence and
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The poem above is from my copy of The Essential Emily Dickinson: Poems , Selected and with an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates (978-0-06-266887-5).
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Oddly reminds me of Emily Dickinson: I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – T
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Kerouac's Quest(kerouacsquest.wordpress.com)
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The Nothingness of Personality (1922)(filosofiaesoterica.com)
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Deleuze, Lecture Transcripts on Spinoza's Concept of Affect [pdf](gold.ac.uk)
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Something I've been meaning to pick up: Mural by the Palenstian poet Mahmoud Darwish, translated by John Berger/Rema Hammami, and with original drawings by John Berger[1]. I'm curious of how many languages he knew and who e
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A small example, maybe: https://github.com/TristeFigure/derrida
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I'm sure you'll do some thinking on the philosophy of art front. To name a few recommendations: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (1970) and Dewey's Art as Experience (1934). > Art [as a creation] does not imitate nature,

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