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Category: Meditate and reflect
Individual suffering for the common (but not lowest common denominator) good.
I have included the above video in these presentation notes for my class because I think that Zizek is advancing a Kierkegaardian argument about abstraction in “The Present Age” but with different conclusions. What follows is a discussion presentation I am giving on Wednesday.… Continue Reading “Individual suffering for the common (but not lowest common denominator) good.”
Book factoid
One more reason E-Books will never be as good as hard copy books: “Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored… Continue Reading “Book factoid”
Poem: The City of the End of Things
This poem, by Archibald Lampman (1861–99), turned up as the preface to a book of lectures by the same name (taken from Lampman by Northrop Frye). I loved it immediately, and then read about how it was written to express trepidation at the rise… Continue Reading “Poem: The City of the End of Things”
Aristotle and the demise of philosophy
The other night, after drinking a little too much wine, Brian and I got onto a conversation about philosophers. Yup. Because we’re just that crazy when we drink a few drinks together. We talk about changes to academic paradigms and get all crazy and… Continue Reading “Aristotle and the demise of philosophy”
What an absurd choice!
Launched today – a new campaign to ask Canadians to reflect on the absurdity of the choices the Harper government is presenting to you: Would you rather have clean water or pay down the deficit? Would you rather have Employment Insurance or have a… Continue Reading “What an absurd choice!”
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