Tag Archives: philosophy

speculative realism

By anewnadir | Published: 7 February 2010
Note: This is a work in progress, so you’ll have to accept that it’s a little rough around the edges. Any thoughts and opinions are appreciated in the comments section. In my time in India thus far, one conversation seems to just keep popping up, over and over again. Actually, this conversation is one I’ve been [...]
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who’s to bear the blame?

By anewnadir | Published: 19 November 2009
I don’t suppose that the suspects arrested for a murder in the Bronx know about the epistemological quandaries raised by their game of “hot potato”. They did seem to know that Carvett Gentles should be the one who shoots the target, for the simple reason that he didn’t yet have a criminal record. (One imagines [...]
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Zizek’s Critique of Schelling’s Critique of Hegel’s Critique…

By anewnadir | Published: 10 August 2009
I’ve been captivated recently by the philosophy of Slavoj Zizek. I think this is because he’s less rigorous than the old Germans and doesn’t seem to have the existential hangups of other European philosophers I’ve spent time reading (I’m thinking of you, Sartre and Heidegger). I can’t profess to having read anything more than a [...]
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solipsism in philosophy

By anewnadir | Published: 28 May 2009
Crooked timber has an interesting little piece on the haughtiness of philosophers. From the article: Philosophy seems to be an outlier within the humanities, just as Linguistics is; we have less in common with the other humanities in terms of the concepts and methods that we deploy, and even the subject matter, than they have with [...]
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the philosophy of information visualization, part I

By anewnadir | Published: 4 May 2009
this is the first in a weekly series of posts about information visualization and its implications for the interpretation of empirical data, philosophical reasoning and the human organization of reality. One keeps forgetting to go right down to the foundations. One doesn’t put the question marks deep enough down. -Ludwig Wittgenstein Information Visualization is one of the new [...]
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human nature?

By anewnadir | Published: 28 March 2009
normblog has a post highly pertinent to my interests: on the debate over nature vs. nurture in determining “human-ness”. ‘norm’ (should I know his name?) writes: cultural determinism, in the sense of denying the reality and/or causal influence of a common human nature, has always been unsustainable. It is an absurdity. Plain facts of material life include [...]
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today’s read

By anewnadir | Published: 3 March 2009
Hopefully this blog doesn’t become a refracting-lens for articles spotted on the Arts & Letters Daily, but this article about subjective relativism and objectivism by John Lukacs is really quite compelling. I haven’t finished it yet, but my first intuition is that Lukacs brings that rare glimmer of historical insight to a problem that is [...]
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To Read, February 2009

By anewnadir | Published: 1 March 2009
This is a goal, not requirement. Crime & Punishment Course in General Linguistics Portrait of a Lady Pride & Prejudice Paradise Lost Life of Johnson Mrs Dalloway Our Man in Havana Machine by Peter Adolphsen The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard A View from the Chuo Line by Donald Richie After Babel by George Steiner A Broom in the System by David Foster Wallace Susan Sontag’s Journals and Notebooks The [...]
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