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Monthly Archive for August, 2007
time seems to have a lot to do with sleep, or at least right now it does. following the sun around the earth, i’ve been in the sunlight for nearly 30 hours now. no my friends, i have not made my way to the deep arctic to defend Canada’s stake in the northern territories (see Russia, Denmark, etc. interesting claim) I have instead decided to take on the ninjas myself. you may know that early on, I chose to side with the pirates (or, ‘buccaneer canadians’ as we prefer to be called) in the now infamous and extremely public pirate vs. ninja wars. i have left to plant myself deep inside their lairs of dark mysticism sneakiness.
this will be the first of many informative communiques. they will take on several forms, in blue and brown books podcast volumes, blog posts, and a new section we will have called ‘letters to nana’ where i will send secret tactical plans secretly to my buccaneer canadian brethren . it may seem that i a merely sending my 80-some year old grandmother living in manitoba canada some interesting things i’ve come across touring and sightseeing japan, however fellow buccaneer canadians will be able to decode these messages only in the way that we know how (which would be flag-letter language).
there will be more to come so please bare with me as i am busy settling in… you will be debriefed.
The Porn Myth, an article by the author of the well known ‘Beauty Myth‘, Naomi Wolf is a commentary on sex, as in the act of sex, in the internet age. Wolf recounts early criticisms of pornography, most notably Andrea Dworkin’s Radical Feminist criticism of pornography as being violent toward women and that it would ultimately breed a society that treats its women as passive ‘receivers’, ‘instruments’ or ‘objects’ of sex.
By Wolf’s lights, pornography and easy access to pornography has molded our view of sex as much worse than violent, it is instead objectified to the extent that the ‘market’ of sex is over saturated.
Continue reading ‘thoughts on sex…’
It occurred to me in thinking about how I tend to worship certain individuals in the history of philosophy, that it’s always a nice idea to make explicit that in idolizing a certain person we are appreciating their context and foundations in general, as in their histories and the people and ideas that influence them as well.
In this particular case, it is not Wittgenstein that interests me in particular, although he is interesting, it is the articulation and the setting up of these linguistic problems, the elegance and the structure that is somehow inelegant and unstructured. It is not as though Wittgensteinian ideas are necessarily made new or ‘discovered’ by Wittgenstein, but that they are so clearly defined and called attention to.
Continue reading ‘thoughts on heroes…’
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