Category: philosophy

• Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part II of IV)

  Jul 10

  World comes to the fore within Heidegger’s exploration of the humanity of human beings. Significantly, the etymological origins of world tend more toward time and historicity (as in “the age… more ›

• Extreme Humanism and the Name(d): A Leap over the Threshold of Language (Part I of IV)

  Jul 8

  What is the nature of language? What is the language of nature? Is it solely language that distinguishes human beings from animals, or is the difference between the two more… more ›

• Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part III of III)

  Jun 23

  Even More seems aware of these shifting borders as he attempts an analogous, albeit rhetorical, configuration throughout his text. First we have More as author, here to relate the tale… more ›

• Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part II of III)

  Jun 21

  At the exact opposite end of history from Eden, we have the notion of the New Jerusalem, a utopian space carved out somewhere between a new heaven and a new… more ›

• Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part I of III)

  Jun 19

  Cultural notions of perfection in social organization find their origins in Thomas More’s Utopia, a text that inscribes on our collective cultural consciousness the very concept of utopia itself. More’s… more ›

• Naming the Unnamable: A Commentary on 9/11 (Part II)

  Jun 17

  In an attempt to keep the open dimension of language indeed open (à la Foucault), I offer this late, preliminary, and provisional commentary on “9/11.“ 9/11 is an American quasi-logo… more ›

• Naming the Unnamable: A Commentary on 9/11 (Part I)

  Jun 15

  The quintessential moment in the history of names, at least insofar as the Western/Judeo-Christian tradition goes, is perhaps the account in Genesis 2 of Adam giving names to the various… more ›

• A Sense of Community: Political Implications of Nietzsche’s Aesthetics

  Jun 12

  “State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: ‘I, the state, am the people.’” – Zarathustra Most… more ›

• Nothing To Say

  Jun 3

  Two strangers hired to stomp around my attic in hopes of repairing the AC circuit board that was fried by lightning three weeks ago. The cost of the replacement board:… more ›

• Rainy Season

  May 16

  I have finished lecturing. I have graded all final exams, essays, and late assignments. I have computed and fudged and inflated all course grades. I have submitted course grades. I… more ›