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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Violence and Metaphysics, part 2
Some rough draft I was working through today: The best liberation from violence is a certain putting into question, which makes the search for an archia tremble. Only the thought of Being can do so, and not traditional ‘philosophy’ or … Continue reading
Posted in derrida, digital-media, diss, ethics, levinas
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Another Reason to Love the Interweb
So this obnoxious sports writer, Kevin Hench of Fox Sports, writes a weekly Hit List in which he takes shots at athletes swirling the drain. This past week, he made disparaging comments on Tampa Bay Ray’s outfielder Rocco Baldelli, essentially … Continue reading
Posted in sports
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Future of Sports
For the past few years I’ve been arguing that the steroids controversy in baseball is about much more that the purity of sport- it touches the incredible transformations medical science will bring to biology. It is about our relationship to … Continue reading
Posted in posthuman, science, sports, theory-in-practice
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Shouldn’t This Be Bigger News
Came across this story on artificial intelligence this morning. Let’s put it alongside this: I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is of course what this is all … Continue reading
Posted in productive mess, technology
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Notes on Of Grammatology
It took me a bit to get started, but here we go… If, as Derrida suggests, writing threatens language, then digital technology extends this threatening, by engaging so many more people in the “play.” As the actors gather, as the … Continue reading
Posted in derrida, diss, theory, wiki, writing-tech
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Sometimes the “Rhetoric of Change” Really Means Change
I wanted to share Norm Scheiber’s article “The Audacity of Data” on Obama’s economic theory. It seems that Obama strays from traditional political philosophy in favor of something which Scheiber labels as “non-ideological” but which I might refer to as … Continue reading
Posted in bordieu, complexity, obama, politics, rhetoric, theory, theory-in-practice
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