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• Celebrating Advent without misrepresentation, sentimentalism or parody (and a couple of recommended books)

  
  CAUTE — Authority: 110
  Today we enter the season of Advent. The English word derives, of course, from the Latin adventus meaning coming which was itself a translation of the Greek word parousia a word commonly used in reference to what became called the Second Coming. Generally within the Christian tradition the season of Advent serves both ...
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• The “heart” of Neo-Liberalism, blah, blah, blah

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 466
  While I try to shrug off all this Neo-liberalism this , and Neo-liberalism that, as other blogsters are using fancy acronyms for Neo-liberalism as if they are busy making entries in the Merck manual, this one passage of qualifications and analogies from the Neo-liberal hating Levi Bryant I find interesting ...
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• The Soul Crushed and Twisted by the Mechanical Arts – Plato

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 466
  Plato’s Prisons of Techne I repost here the quote from the Republic that is usual Platonic, imagistic language is full of potential truths. Here we find Socrates discrediting primarily the sophists, but really a who class of technically skilled [techne] workers, those whose power and knowledge consists in their ...
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• Fascist Bindings In Latour: The Blinding Glory of Non-Human Agency

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 466
  – – I’m still reading and digesting the essay, but Steve Fuller’s critical treatment of Latour, with its deep investigation into the economic and political matrix out of which it came is extremely interesting reading, in particular for those that imagine that there is something inherently liberating by ...
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• Birth of Sandman: the Pulverization of Material, the Inversion of Man

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 466
  Recently I read in connection to Latour that there has been a pulverization of the material, somehow, and that this somehow points us towards a world of objects. It calls to mind for me that for Spinoza the world itself too is pulverized, or must be pulverized unto a microstate, so as to become fully active (that ...
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• Freud and then Heine: Spinoza Does not Deny God, but Always Humanity

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 466
  Freud and Spinoza on Kant’s Freedom A few days ago I listened to the paper by  Michael Mack (Nottingham), “Spinoza and Freud, or how to be mindful of the mind”  from the Spinoza and Bodies conference (audio here ), and one quote really stood out, taken from Heine on Spinoza. Mack’s paper argues that ...
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• $1.3 million lost in blatant but failed attempt at insider trading?

  
  Ultimi Barbarorum — Authority: 515
  The blogosphere made the catch! The Interweb protects the rest of us from evil doers! The world is ablaze with the news that prior to the 3Com buyout announced by HP last week, there was an unusual amount of volume in the $5 november call in 3Com. We’re all pretty sensitised to insider trading at the moment, and so ...
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• The Eighth Meditation, Philosophos – The Inescapable Philosophy of Philosophy

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 128
  Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom~ Our meeting today, my dear reader, is not one of coincidence, luck or blind chance. That we have met today means that we were meant to meet and our meeting could not have happened in any other way. It is inevitable that the past must be as it has been before [...]
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• Subjectless Subjectivity, A Geography of Subject: Beyond Objectology

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 466
  I’ve just listened to Caroline Williams’s wonderful, clear essay on the powers of Subject-less conception to be found within Spinoza’s ontology and his politics, “Reconfiguring Body and Mind: Thinking Beyond the Subject with/through Spinoza” . Drawing primarily on Althusser, but of course Gatens and Lloyd ...
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• “Indifference” – Thinking Through Cold

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 466
    Prologue to Cold Time has been spent lately thinking about Schelling’s Idealist appropriations and improvements on Spinoza’s notion of Substance and self, the way that he bent Nature’s history forward towards a development involving a supposedly higher unity, or at least self-conscious, expression, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Photo Gallery: Foliage II

  
  http://epiac1216.wordpress.com — Authority: 137
  Yesterday I included eight pictures of a beautiful park in Hato Pintado which is rarely found in large cities.  The beauty of this park is remarkable.  Inside it’s nice and cool, even though it might be hot and humid outside of the thick foliage. Being there alone, surrounded by dark green grass and tall trees, ...
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• Swimming Without Pause: Production Sans Subject

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 466
  Breathing Matter In this wonderfully conceived essay on Schelling and Spinoza “Fanaticism and Production: On Schelling’s Philosophy of Indifference”   Albert Toscano works from a perspective of production, taking as a general question of philosophy the object seen as product. As he traces out ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bowls not Pitchers: Limitation and True Human Freedom - a sermon based on George Kimmich Beech’s essay "The Covenant of Spiritual Freedom"

  
  CAUTE — Authority: 110
  ( All the quotes from George Kimmich Beach are taken from Walter P. Hertz, Redeeming Time, Skinner House Books, Boston, 1999, pp. 99-105 ) The picture is of a pot made by one of my friends Jane Perryman who is married to my friend and colleague the jazz saxophonist and composer, Kevin Flanagan .  ...
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• Art: The Watch that Ticks Fast?

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 466
  Found posted over at antagonist , this recounting of something Kafka said in passing on Picasso: Recalling a visit with Kafka to an exhibition of French painting, Janousch reports that, in answer to a comment he made on on Picasso’s “rose coloured women with gigantic feet” which was to effect that Picasso ...
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• Omens of the Future: Intellection and Imagination

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 466
  [click on photo for larger image] More on the Balling Letter This is a follow up on the train of thought I began two days ago on the subject of Spinoza’s letter to Peter Balling where Spinoza brings up the curious notion of sharing in the essence of another person, and even the result that one could have ...
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• Spinoza’s Scheme of the Prophetic Imagination

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 466
  [click on photo for larger image] The above is the scheme of Spinoza’s implicit theory of a prophetic imagination, drawn from his letter to Peter Balling (17), as a father writes about his premonition of his son’s death. The pertinent description from which this is drawn I quote: To take an example like yours, ...
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• Understanding in a Flash and the Mastery of Technique

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 466
      Eternity and Know-how   I’ve been reflecting on the concurrences between the excellent passage from Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations below, and the Spinoza point made, which follows. Wittgenstein’s brilliant, economically, though quite gnomically put point has always been ...
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• Spinoza and Bodies Audio

  
  An und fr sich — Authority: 470
  The Spinoza Research Network has posted the audio from the recent Spinoza and Bodies conference . You can hear my paper amongst the other excellent ones that were given. The Q&A was one of those rare experiences where people actually asked good questions that challenged me and also allowed me to develop the piece ...
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• ;&gm^

  
  Education Revolution — Authority: 122
  “Walkabout London: Open Source Learning”
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• Where’s the iPorn?

  
  Ultimi Barbarorum — Authority: 515
  Baruch is slowly coming to terms with the ghastly truth. Apple is closing down everyone else in the smartphone market, and it seems that nothing can stop it. For over 10 years the mainly European giants of wireless, the operators, equipment and handsets makers, touted the bright sunlit uplands of our 3G mobile ...
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