Made it up to page 318 yesterday, no mean feat, and want to do the same sort of numbers if possible today. Ah, the joys of the end of term. I spent the entirety of last weekend reading. Are early signs of the themes of The Pale King.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Lawrence Krauss, David Alpert, Jim Holt, Freeman Dyson. Philosophy, Physics and the Great Kerfuffle. In the New York Times. An excellent little book by the science writer Jim Holt.

If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a. This phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from their physical life-process. Monday, August 23, 2010. Eliot re-imagines the scenes of Victorian comfort with an eye to their potential for surreality and ambivalence. The speaker experiences himself at an ironic distance from his world, unworthy to touch i.

0160; Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! 0160; Send your ships out into uncharted seas! 0160; Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! 0160; Be robbers and ravagers as long as you cannot be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge. The unwillingness of our critical philosophers to address the.

Chiasmus, peregrinations, ruminations, dilemmas. Friday, May 28, 2010. Saturday, May 08, 2010. Saturday, May 01, 2010.

The Making of Homo Probabilis. How We Will Come to Appreciate Donald Trump. Originally posted on Equality by.

Lumpen Orientalism gathers the fragments of a lost civilization, the decaying parts of a breathing animal the Middle East. Named after a term suggested by China Miéville, Lumpen Orientalism captures an anomalous fascination with the Middle East and Asia in a similar way to the mongrel visions of Gilles Deleuze, H. Lovecraft, Gaëtan Clérambault and William Beckford in order to tackle this enigmatic monstrosity. At Monday, October 25, 2010.

Reading this piece actually started me thinking rigorously about Spinoza and metaphor, upon which I wrote several times, perhaps most strictly in the post Spinoza and the Metaphoric Rise of the Imagination.

Giving itself latitude and leisure to take any premise or inquiry to its furthest associative conclusion. Ready to apply, to itself and its object, the canons of reason, evidence, style, and ethics, up to their limits. At home and at large in the ecosystem of practice and memory that radically nourishes the whole person. Friday, July 31, 2015. Euphorion and Panaitios relate that the beginning of the. Why Plato would have kept .