I recently found a poem a wrote for a little student publication called The Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary for Summer 2000. It was in my days of intense study of the philosophy of technology and its fusion with concepts of desire in postmodernism (with a clear hat tip to Kierkegaard). Enjoy! Musings of a [...]
Posts under ‘Deep Thoughts’
gravity
gravity constant pull not weight a pressure intense pulling down to some center a vaccuum light delusion image of the past naive optimism resisting furiously pulled deeper with less of myself in release at the bottom there is grace where we are born
what is it to be postmodern?
Disney Hall in LA I have written two theses on the topic. Published an article that directly deals with the issue. I have also published material that indirectly deals with it. I have read through Kirsteva, Foucault, Haraway, Turkle, Derrida, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Schrag, Jameson, Kellner, Harvey, van Huyssteen, Marion, Taylor, and on and on. I [...]
Quote of the Day
“Google is the answer to the problem we didn’t have. It doesn’t tell you what’s interesting or what’s important. There’s still more in the library than there is on Google.” Malcolm Gladwell in New York Magazine
Two Problems with Left-Libertarianism
There are consistent libertarian objections to both Democrat and Republican philosophies of governance. The primary objection is the notion in principle that autonomous individuals have universal self-ownership of property and rights. It is the idea that if I earn the right to possess something, I am the sole owner of that property. This also includes [...]
