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A manifesto, an action, a radical moment.
Job’s coffin looks down At the day you shut your power down You must out-create that destructive tendency Let your fire starter hear the fury Job’s Coffin, Tori Amos Last night was the Kierkegaard presentation, the one posted here a couple of days ago… Continue Reading “A manifesto, an action, a radical moment.”
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”
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