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Untitled 12 Aug 2013 | 01:48 pm
C. W. Eckersberg, ca. 1815 (Source: Nivaagaard Collection) Martinus Rørbye, 1835 (Source: Nivaagaard Collection) Giorgio de Chirico, 1911-1912 (Source: about.com)
Location and Temperature 6 Aug 2013 | 06:15 pm
Poetry is to time what philosophy is to space. The philosopher locates a concept and clarifies it. The poet tempers an emotion and intensifies it. Many poets, of course, are sometimes philosophers, s...
Hope 5 Aug 2013 | 07:44 pm
A sort of trivial thought hit me today, but worth thinking about a little more, maybe. George Orwell clearly worried publicly about what Tocqueville called "the destiny of mankind". He also, I think, ...
Is This Why I've not Yet Written a Book? 2 Aug 2013 | 01:53 pm
I trace among our contemporaries two contrary notions which are equally injurious. One set of men can perceive nothing in the principle of equality but the anarchical tendencies that it engenders; the...
Dante's Foundations 1 Aug 2013 | 01:04 pm
From Stephen Botterill's introduction to Dante's De Vulgari Eloquentia: "...in the aftermath of the disappointment of all his most cherished hopes for earthly success [ca. 1303], Dante underwent at t...
Captives 30 Jul 2013 | 10:07 pm
"Data" means "that which is given". In science we can distinguish the data from the objects of inquiry. The data are the means by which the objects are given to us. In Kantian terms, we can say that t...
A Preface to Composure 30 Jul 2013 | 01:27 pm
This is my body. These are my hands, writing. These are my eyes, reading. The difficulty is keeping it together amid distraction. Overcoming the difficulty is composure. This is my body. I mean that...
Progressions 7 Jul 2013 | 11:30 am
To know. To understand. To exist. To master. To obey. To inspire. Juxtaposed, the first two terms in each sequence give me pause. They suggest that understanding is to knowledge as obedience is to p...
Basic Bouncing Ball 1 Jul 2013 | 06:09 pm
A few weeks ago I downloaded Chipmunk BASIC for my Mac. I haven't programmed anything for probably 25 years now, but I'm already able to do things I only dreamt of doing on my TRS-80 MC-10 when I was ...
Privacy and Secrecy, a poem 27 Jun 2013 | 04:40 pm
for Glenn Greenwald Secrets are as people keep them. Privacy is as it is respected. The State does not respect your privacy. Nor do its subservient journalists.* It says, "If you want your privacy,...
