Tag: modernity

  • :: Graham Harman’s Response to a (Mild) Critic :: and comment

    I was asked to write a response to Sheldon Richmond’s (rather mild) critique of Architecture and Objects. That response has been published HERE. Response to a (Mild) Critic —— My comment: First, I don’t really need to defend Graham Harman’s OOO against the growing idea-writers that place him as a New Materialist. On one hand,…

  • Recycling and sound philosophy

    Something just dawned on me as I was washing the plastic cutlery that I got with my Noodles & Co food. Now, hold on Judge-mental philosophers. Yes I do live in a pretty liberal place, and, it does really bother me all of the trash that I generate. Which, actually, it’s not very much considering…

  • The (w)Hole of Modernity

    https://www.academia.edu/36264960/Introduction_Exploring_Re_Embodiments?email_work_card=view-paper A tension arises between the human being and the world that is. Always, the formulation as an intensional act, is of overmining and undermining. Thinking too much of things toward a great overarching explanation, or thinking too little, into the minutiae of pieces and more pieces, as those might explain. In particular to the…

  • High Functioning Anxiety? Some philosophical notes of the modern Aria

    www.huffpost.com/entry/high-functioning-anxiety-signs_l_5cd42647e4b09f321bdcc6d0 I ponder why mental health as a topic has become so prominent in our experiential awareness, concern and vocabulary. From a philosophical perspective, it seems sensible. For, the prominent 20th century philosophy was existentialism, and thus is based in the preponderant existential anxiety. However, aside from the more obvious considerations where history makes sense…

  • The Great Divide: Was The Handmaiden’s Tale Nonfiction?

    apple.news/AvymzKonZSYuFKxUS0EHwHQ Intelligence !! That, is the question. I am not that dense to believe that any piece of news is Above pure propaganda. This link to article is by the guardian, and I do like to think this news source, though leftist, has its neutral facts in order and is reporting neutrally, with a liberal…

  • The modernity

    www.huffpost.com/entry/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax_n_60bf7befe4b028b8ad4c9ebe Modern human beings live through the ideal that they (we) have an ability to access neutrality of our thinking through insightful consideration of, again, neutral facts. However, it can be a simple feat to see that no such neutrality is ever come upon. The difference between the ideal and the actuality evidences the religious…

  • Cognition and Cosmology

    The main and largely unrecognized model for the human mental being is the Cognitive Model. In short, it says there is a Situation, we have thoughts about it, These thoughts are automatically associated with particular emotional responses, and we act or behave. This behavior is an interaction with the world, and this interaction is the…

  • how fast the world ? As fast as our arrogance.

    Futurists from the 20th century predicted that labor saving devices would make leisure abundant. According to the great economist John Maynard Keynes, the big challenge would be that… Rather than… — Read on medium.com/accelerated-intelligence/google-director-of-engineering-this-is-how-fast-the-world-will-change-in-ten-years-6f1e653b5374 — I am always intrigued when theorists use the word “we” — and a bit skeptical. I am pretty conscious in…

  • Philosophy and Guitar Equipment: The Tower of Babel

    xThis isn’t about what you might think it is about. I am going to attempt to speak to the problem of philosophy as it arises currently. This is to say, the problem of philosophy. The problem with philosophy nowadays, if it was ever really any different, is that to say that we are now going…

  • The philosophical/critical modern academic method

    Abstract: In this paper, I argue that people should think a certain way about things, and believe in the semantic content that such thinking portrays. I give examples that everyone should already understand, and hopefully provide a route to make sure they are not making a mistake about what they are understanding. I then further…