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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Geology, Paleontology and Faeces
“The study of coprolites turned into something of a craze. Suddenly an intriguing new perspective of previously misidentified fossil objects had opened up. Those interested in chemistry published analyses of the composition of coprolites; among them were Daubeny, Prout, and … Continue reading
Sincerely Yours
20th-century critics prior to Susan Sontag varied in crucial ways with respect to their IDEAS, nevertheless they tended to share a common SENSIBILITY. According to Sontag, a sensibility is something other than an idea. An idea provides a model or … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Camp, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sincerity, Susan Sontag
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Landscape and The Architecture of Perception
Below is a theoretical statement which, from Deleuze’s perspective, would be almost exactly analogous to Freud’s reductive reading of the Wolf-man. Though unlike Freud, it is willing to acknowledge, at least momentarily, the apparent multiplicity of nature; having made this … Continue reading
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Tagged Clause Levi-Strauss, Freud, Psychoanalysis, Stratification, Synthesis
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Asyntactical Anti-Architecture ~ Building not as Organism but rather Cloud
Friedrich Wilhelm founded this museum for the study of antique objects of all kinds and the fine arts “In a confidential memo to Cabinet Adviser von Albrecht, a member of the museum commission, Alexander von Humboldt wrote that the philology … Continue reading
“Meet Your New Teacher, Professor Scantron 888P+!”
“continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.” – Philippians 2:12 I don’t believe the university breeds enough graphomaniacs, or scribomaniacs. Writing used to be considered the most fundamental component of any education. These days it’s viewed as … Continue reading
Beyond Romanticism: Science as Mark-Making and Infinite Revision
If replication and authorship are matters of negotiation, then there is no event which corresponds to an automatic or instant discovery. A complex enterprise, accessible to historical and sociological understanding, generates objects which are then labeled as discoveries. Subsequently, the … Continue reading
Kantian Teleology: “Purposiveness without a Purpose”
Impossible not to think of the concept of the Bildungstrieb, and development through dynamic reversals of polarity, while watching Noumenon Mobilus, by Alwin Nikolai. NOUMENON, plural Noumena: In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the thing-in-itself (das Ding an sich) as … Continue reading
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Tagged Alwin Nikolai, Devlopment, Evolution, Immanuel Kant, Purposiveness, Teleology
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Catastrophism: Creation Through Destruction
Perpetual Restlessness and Endless Revision in the Absence of an Original: In the last decade, F. W. J. von Schelling has emerged as one of the key philosophers of German Idealism, the one who, for the first time, undermined Kant’s … Continue reading
Varieties of Morphology
An infinite variety of possible forms, though not all forms are possible. Introduction: Morphology, Shape and Phylogenetics, N. Macleod and P. Forey 1: Homology, Characters and Continuous Variables, C.J. Humphries 2: Quantitative Characters, Phylogenies, and Morphometrics, J. Felsenstein 3: Scaling, … Continue reading
The Nightmare Will Be Archived: Our Culture of Disaster
The Kantian turn in philosophy marks a point at which the familiar opposition between Culture and Nature is problematized. Each becomes the ideal means through which to view the other. We will never adequately understand and explain living forms and … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Catastrophe, Disaster, Immanuel Kant, Media, Sublime
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