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SEXISTENCE

There is love in its endless applications: love without limits, the love of humanity, of the world, of music, of the sea and the mountains, of poetry. There is the love of philosophy, which is called love of wisdom, which, in turn, seems to consist only in loving what one cannot judge, know, or reject: … Continue reading SEXISTENCE

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Junkspace

“If space-junk is the human debris that litters the universe, Junk-Space is the residue mankind leaves on the planet. … Junkspace is what remains after modernization has run its course, or more precisely, what coagulates while modernization is in progress.” rem_koolhaas_junkspace Continue reading Junkspace

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Kitchen Without Kitsch

The lay of the land, in the Seventies film, is that there are two types of structure being practiced: dispersal and shallow-boxed space. Rameau’s Nephew, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Celine and Jutie Go Boating, Beware of the Holy Whore are films that believe implicitly in the idea of non-solidity, that everything is a mass of energy particles, and the aim, structurally, is a flux-like space to go with the atomized content and the idea of keeping the freshness and energy of a real world within the movie’s frame. Continue reading “Kitchen Without Kitsch”

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What Is It Like to be a Bat?

Thomas Nagel's seminal essay about the limits of understanding consciousness from an objective perspective.

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. Perhaps that is why current discussions of the problem give it little attention or get it obviously wrong. The recent wave of reductionist euphoria has produced several analyses of mental phenomena and mental concepts designed to explain the possibility of some variety of materialism, psychophysical identification, or reduction.

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