Category: thinking
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You won’t have read Heidegger until you’ve (also) read Being and Time. There are two routes toward reading B/T: 1) just read the damn thing, or 2) ease into reading… more ›
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Instead of writing personal resolutions for myself this year I decided to write resolutions for you. Here are eight impersonal resolutions guaranteed to make you a better person and the… more ›
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It was years—decades even—from the time I first read Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot before seeing a production of it. In that time, and really since the beginning, I was fascinated with… more ›
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Recently I read Michael Marder’s Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. I liked it well enough. It offers an erudite reading and counter-reading to “the plant” within the metaphysical tradition… more ›
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Jean Baudrillard’s 1981 Simulacra and Simulation, translated by Sheila Faria Glaser in 1994, contains a four-page essay entitled “Hypermarket and Hypercommodity.” This short essay articulates the structure of the media… 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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Pity the wood that finds itself a violin. Pity the thought that finds itself man.He thinks it must be due to faulty metaphysics from calculative reckoning gone awry that there… more ›
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“I’m free–free falling.” Despite the relative stability of my life now–a definite work schedule, a definite class schedule, the fact that this schedule will remain the same until the beginning… more ›
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I have become such an American! After the past seventy-five minutes in traffic, I now see that I am nothing more than a cog in the great American machine–another blip… more ›