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Tearing the soul
09.19.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Tearing the soulThe notion of the self as the tear in the soul strikes me as a bit Foucauldian. I’ll explain. Foucault concerned himself with three axes of inquiry: knowledge, power, and self-other. Knowledge was the focus of his early, “archeological” work, and looked a lot like the work of Thomas Kuhn. His work on power focused […]
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A Matrix reversed?
09.18.03 | Permalink | 4 CommentsAKMA asks what l the (Matrix) revolution will be. My $5K in Blogshares cash says that Zion is part of the Matrix, or rather, a shell matrix to the Matrix. That’s why Neo can control the squids outside. But more. My $5K says that the Matrix wasn’t built by AIs to control humans, but by […]
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And now two
09.17.03 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThe race for the Democratic nomination for President is now between Howard Dean and Wesley Clark. I’d be happy with either one.
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The Skeptic’s Bible
The Skeptic’s Annotated Bible: The King James Version presented from a skeptic’s point of view.
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Authoritative community?
09.16.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Authoritative community?An interesting affirmation of Henry Nelson Wieman (summary and response). The report introduces the new term “authoriative communities.” The response suggests “connected communities” instead.” I’d prefer something like “orienting communities.” In any case, as a minimum, they have these characteristics: include children and youth; treat children as ends in themselves, not means to other ends; […]
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The torn soul as self
09.15.03 | Permalink | 3 CommentsIn his novella “The Game of Time and Pain” author Samuel Delaney traces the history of his frequent Neveryon character, Gorgik the LIberator. Gorgik is Delaney’s archetypal man, and the outline of his life is as follows: The dark-skinned Gorgik is raised on the docks of the capital port of Kolhari, where his father is […]
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