Category: techne
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When I logged in to WordPress earlier I received three messages about the “health” of my web site. Not only did I not understand what the hell it was talking… more ›
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After spending a few hours this past week trying on new frames and ordering new lenses for distance vision, now seems like a suitable time to think and write about… more ›
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Reflecting the double abysses, a “double power” seems to surround man as well: the power of the natural universe around him, and the power of his created world (70). Man,… more ›
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To separate oneself from others and from our environment is the original violence we do, both to others as well as to ourselves. Yet one’s nature inextricably links oneself to… more ›
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The I of the Storm Reminding us that nature—as opposed or exterior to (masculine) human culture—is more than just tempest and maelstrom against which the human being must rage, Irigaray… more ›
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“Do not seek to go home.” – Chorus, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus “Home is where I want to be, but I guess I’m already there.” – Talking Heads, “This Must… more ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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… you learn degree by degree.” Love is artifice, a construction. It is μίμησις; ποιέσις. It is, what Heidegger calls in “Die Frage nach der Technik” the “irruption of the… more ›