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it only took this long.
for me to give up my resolve to write a post every day. I’m overcome with work related to my thesis, so the daily trickle is going to have to run dry for a few more days. I should have more time in a little more than a week. I’ll try and post a few [...]
being vs becoming
A friend of mine made passing mention of the “debate” about being versus becoming in philosophy. As a student of language philosophy, I don’t think I can speak to the deep metaphysical considerations such an uncertainty raises; the natural tendency of modern language philosophy has been to try and defuse such problems by demonstrating their [...]
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dearth of the earth.
No post until tomorrow afternoon, probably. This picture will have to tide you over:
velasquez
how does he so manage to blend abstraction with exactitude in his portraits? We are to think of abstraction as a necessary clearing-away of information to further emphasize more important points; his whole painting is abstract, but not in the universal sense that later artists make use of–he scrubs over the inessential elements of a [...]
the day’s reading
Today’s reading:
Popmatters reviews “Stuff White People Like”
The Economist on Financial Globalization’s Death Knells
The Weekly Standard on the new “Killjoy” political economy
The American on India’s Railway Czar Lalu Yadev
Thierry Chervel believes the islamisation of Europe is a foregone conclusion
Some of these may show up with this week’s review, but most likely not.
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Sunday Reading
“Such, Such was Eric Blair,” by Julian Barnes in the NY Review of Books
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Communitarianism
Italian Documentary on Brian Eno on ArtSpace.it
Economist on the Oscars (they afford themselves a little populism when it comes to culture)
The American Conservative on British Inspiration (or its lack thereof)
The Random Beauty of Facebook’s “25 things [...]
you can judge a band by its covers.
It's easier to judge a band by its look than it is by its actual music.
Andy Warhol