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It's My Ontology and I'll Cry If I Want To
"If contemporary philosophers insist so adamantly that thought is entirely oriented towards the outside, this could be because of their failure to come to terms with a bereavement - the denial of a...
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Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
"Of all beings, only the human being, called upon by the voice of Being, experiences the wonder of all wonders: that beings are" (Heidegger,'Postscript to "What Is Metaphysics"')(Image: "Vice President...
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Death Comes Close
“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death” (Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1927)(Image: Immanuel Kant's Totenmaske, which was recently found by accident in 1999 at the Humboldt University...
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Feeling Your Cat Disintigrate
Unfortunately when it comes to set theory, my knowledge is ∅ (set theory humor is literally the worst). So when I stumbled into this brief analogy in Alain Badiou's Number and Numbers I was relieved to...
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Much Badiou About Nothing
The modest pursuits of Alain Badiou, according to Peter Hallward:"to salvage reason from positivism, the subject from deconstruction, being from Heidegger, the infinite from theology, the event from...
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Fluid Fantasies
"The eye itself, pure vision, grows weary of solids. Its great wish is to dream deformation. If when we look upon the world we could do so with all the freedom of our dreams, then everything would be...
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All Aboard the Meow-Go-Round
At the risk of allowing this web-log to become yet another online repository of cat photos and kitten stories, I wanted to post about an interesting perceptual experiment I just read about involving...
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A Haunted Simulacrum
"By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of the camera, the film, on the one hand, extends...
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All Your Absolutes Are Belong to Chaos
"NEEDLER (Corpus 009)" by Patti Jordan, via www.butdoesitfloat.com"It is unthinkable that the unthinkable be impossible" (Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude, trans. Ray Brassier, 2010, p. 41)With this...
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On Clowns, Philosophy, and Brazilian Nuts
The article "Citizen Philosophers: Teaching Justice in Brazil" by Carlos Fraenkel raises quite a few interesting questions regarding the purpose and function of philosophy in a democratic society, but...
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Everybody Loves Friedrich
"Nietzsche and the Horse" by Shardcore, 2011"[Nietzsche] had a more penetrating knowledge of himself than any man who ever lived or was ever likely to live" (Sigmund Freud, as cited by Ernest Jones in...
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Building Concepts in the Sky
Untitled by Brice Chatenoud via voodoovoodo "The question what is philosophy? can perhaps be posed only late in life, with the arrival of old age and the time for speaking concretely...It is a question...
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The Bridge over the River Why
"Merce Cunningham et Martha Graham" (1947) by Philippe Halsman via butdoesitfloat"Philosophy is completely different from 'world-view' and is fundamentally distinct from all 'science'...[it] is a...
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Organs without Boundaries
"Skull" by James "Son" Thomas via Intuitive Eye"We need to expand our account of the substrate [of consciousness]...and cross the boundary of the skull" - Alva Noë, author of Out of Our Heads (2009)...
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We Are Modules in Space
"To Never Look Outward" by Steven Ketchum (via freakyfauna.tumblr.com)"It's been pretty clear since Freud, that our pretheoretical 'folk' taxonomy of mental states conflates two quite different natural...
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Science Is as Science Does
Illustrations by L.W.R. Wenckebach for In De Muizenwereld by Agatha Snellen (Netherlands, 1894) via 50wattsEven though I'm sort of trapped in a speeding train headed in the opposite direction, I'm...
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Eye Give Up
Image by Dennis Tyfus (via http://voodoovoodoo.tumblr.com/)"I say that vision occurs when the image of the whole hemisphere of the world that is before the eye...is fixed on the reddish white concave...
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Alone But Not Ticklish
"Leaf me alone" by Hilary FayeEver wonder why you can't tickle yourself? You're not alone! Science has also wondered this. One rather interesting explanation offered by Blackemore, Wolpert, D., &...
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Recursive Idolatry
Stacey Rozich, "A day at the parade"All idols of my idols’ idols are idols of mine
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Philosophools
John Baldessari, Stonehenge (with Two Persons) Green, 2005"It might be noted that to the question, How can we know other minds? nonphilosophers are apt to reply with only stunned silence (indicating...
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