From Zen and the Art of Postmodern Philosophy by Carl Olsen (I added paragraph breaks): Within the context of postmodern art, Mark C. Taylor identifies, for instance, two processes at work: disfiguring and cleaving. These two operations are identified by Taylor in his attempt to grasp the chora, a nonexistent that stands behind being and [...]
From Jacques Racière’s The Future of the Image (translated by Gregory Elliot): The imprint of the thing, the naked identity of its alterity in place of its imitation, the wordless, senseless materiality of the visible instead of the figures of discourse–this is what is demanded by the contemporary celebration of the image or its nostalgic [...]
Biblical news from Academia: Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis “in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth” is not a true translation of the Hebrew. … She said she eventually concluded the Hebrew verb “bara”, which is used in the first [...]
This year’s Symposium on Values, Spirit and Business has the theme “How to Grow Your Business by Integrating the Gandhian Philosophy of Satyagraha”. The Wikipedia has this to say on Satyagraha—and that “passive resistance” is not descriptive of its tenets—: Gandhi contrasted satyagraha (holding on to truth) with “duragraha” (holding on by force), as in [...]
I was forwarded this from Angelina, who apparently read it on the side of her Starbucks cup (emphasis mine): “There is a subtle difference between a mission and a promise. A mission is something you strive to accomplish — a promise is something you are compelled to keep. One is individual, the other is shared. [...]
For Christmas, my friend Danielle bought me the book, The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. It’s getting a little long in the tooth near page 150, but I really like how they go about building up their argument. Specifically, how they define Destinctions. I’ve been accused in the past (by my [...]
Via some fun copy on BoingBoing Gadgets (“These “Toastabags” (phonemologically Bostonian, apparently…”) and someone’s analytical comment , I came across a way to cleave English speakers: those that pronounce R’s (rhotic), and those that don’t(non-rhotic). From the wikipedia page on Rhotic and non-rhotic accents: English pronunciation is divided into two main accent groups, the rhotic [...]
