First published on 6 July 2022. In the late 1920s, Hannah Arendt helped fellow philosopher Martin Heidegger on a book that took the intellectual world by storm. Being and Time (or Sein und Zeit in the original German) contended that the human being, Dasein, was a being that took its own being into question. But … Continue reading The philosophy of life: Arendt, Heidegger, Foucault
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Technology: The nuclear DNA of social evolution
First published in August 2022. I would like to propose a sociology which mimics both physics and biology in its emphasis on the molecular code of relational life. Everything is connected to everything else in the web of reality, but certain elements ‘code’ for other elements, like how a recipe ‘codes’ for the food that … Continue reading Technology: The nuclear DNA of social evolution
New Day
There is something Something I cannot recall Sunset in California (Wikimedia Commons). That you were my all That what I lost was found That when I hit the ground Was it you? Who are you? Who am I? Where am I? What is this place? When will I be free? How do I get out? … Continue reading New Day
Ending = Beginning
You still don’t get it You think you made me Artwork by Thomas Moran. But you destroyed me I am nothing My life is nothing You killed me This wound will never heal It will fester It will grow Until it consumes me I cannot stop the inevitable I am stuck I cannot escape God, … Continue reading Ending = Beginning
On the poetry of purgatory
One of the best movies I’ve seen is The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski. It reminds me of some other movies I’ve seen, like Moonlight and Parasite. The difference is that these brilliant films conclude with more-or-less utter hopelessness, while The Pianist ends with the ambiguous hope of music. Other films also do this, to … Continue reading On the poetry of purgatory
Edmund Wilson 