Category Archives: ethics

Latour, Gorgias, and Levinas Take 15

Posted on February 9, 2011 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

This article keeps beating me up–every time I think I know what I am doing, it runs away. I believe I am finally whipping it in to shape, but I want to make sure the following paragraphs make sense to … Continue reading →

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Bruno Latour and Metaphysics

Posted on January 31, 2011 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I don’t remember this passage in Harman’s Prince of Networks, but its a nice one from Latour’s Laboratory Life: Specific to this laboratory is the particular configurations of apparatus that we have called inscription devices. The central importance of this … Continue reading →

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Levinas, Ethics and Infinity

Posted on June 25, 2010 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I’m currently reading through Levinas’s Ethics and Infinity, one of my summer reading books. I’ve still got a few chapters to go, but so far I appreciate Levinas’s concision. I like this book for the same reason that I like … Continue reading →

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Post Conferences Post

Posted on June 2, 2010 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I just got back from RSA and Computers and Writing–two great weekends that left me both socially and professionally refreshed. I’m working today towards advancing both papers (one on social media, ethics, and Rowan’s cancer, the other on Latour, sophistry, … Continue reading →

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Toward Kair-erotically Thinking Techno-Determinism

Posted on May 3, 2010 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I spent the morning today doing some reading/writing on my Computers and Writing presentation, which will deal explicitly with how social media played a role in diagnosing and dealing with my daughter’s cancer. One article that I read today was … Continue reading →

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I not We, Me not US

Posted on November 10, 2008 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

As I’m finishing my Levinas chapter, I’m feeling how hard it is to apply his ethics to academic writing–at least my academic writing. I am so used to using the plural, collective pronouns: we and us, that it feels disorienting … Continue reading →

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Responsibility for others

Posted on June 17, 2008 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Normally I let Mrxk deal with this kind of stuff. He’s good at it. Witty. Poignant. Firm. But I guess, since he hasn’t hit this one yet, I’ll take it. So, if you’re reading this, you probably know I’m writing … Continue reading →

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Violence and Metaphysics, part 2

Posted on March 31, 2008 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

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 →

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