Co-operatives and Liberation, not necessarily in that order
The past must be narrated, the present cognized, the future intimated. (Schelling) Hegelian dialectic cognizes the past. The past is not a point in time, but an ekstases. A “reaching-out”. The past is no less “present” than the present, it is simply present in a different way (as recollected, as remembered). The past must be […]
Read More What’s wrong with HegelMy friend the public servant also happens to be an excellent photographer, and he has recently compiled a page of his photographic work from the last seven years. It is best viewed as a slideshow.
Read More Milan’s PhotographyA) What are we doing when we retrieve Ancient Philosophy? B) How does the answer to A differ from what we are doing when we use common sense, everyday ready-made notions? Provisional answer: A and B are seperated by the possesing/lacking of what we call awareness, having-one’s self, authenticity, consciousness, intentionality. 2) Freedom is the […]
Read More Questions for LifeI’m starting to become more and more convinced by the geo engineering prerogative. Conservation is too ecological, romantic, pastoral. The Nazi response to modern technology is to keep doing it while we privileged the pastoral. The US response has been to keep doing it while regulating it and establishing parks. Both these methods suffer the […]
Read More Thinking Geo-Engineering more broadlyThe government has recently announced that they will institute a program whereby people who own old “polluting” cars can trade them for cash and transit tickets, or more cash if they spend it on zero emissions transportation. Sounds good, but it isn’t – for two reasons. First reason – it conflagrates (and thereby increases public […]
Read More What’s Wrong with the cash for old cars programOn the whole, an excellent week. Highlights included the CPA workshop on Urban Philosophy, and the “Back to the Things Themselves” seminar and workshop with the EPTC. Lowlights included everything else to do with the CPA, and some of the Heidegger talks at EPTC. The largest highlight though, was meeting other people who are engaged […]
Read More Congress 2008 Recap
Only a Northern Song 