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digital dualism, information physics, and natural process 15 Mar 2013 | 06:03 pm
There’s been an increasing brouhaha in blogs and on Twitter over “digital dualism”; Whitney Boesel summarizes it adroitly here (while also pointing out an asymmetry in citations of female theorists in...
emptiness and buddhahood 6 Nov 2012 | 01:35 am
Buddhism is a peculiar tradition in that, unlike most spiritual or religious traditions, it emphasizes not only the emptiness of objects and things, but even the emptiness of its own teleology, in a c...
ways to help after Sandy 5 Nov 2012 | 01:33 am
From the NonsenseNYC art event email list: NOTE: There are so many ways to help in the wake of the storm. We’ve collected several that require your actual labor — not your donations or your clicks. T...
Memes vs discourse 22 Oct 2012 | 01:40 am
My friend Jenny Cool posted this on Facebook yesterday: Can people be woken up by the same entertain me ideology that has replaced deliberative discourse with all bumper stickers and cutsey memes all...
mystery love 4 Sep 2012 | 12:54 pm
The tides of love flow strongest when we remember that there can open, with every thing we learn about the other, an even more vast terrain of mystery, not only of the other but of ourselves. It’s the...
cathedrals of clouds 21 Aug 2012 | 07:44 am
Once I was in Los Angeles as a high school kid, looking up at the sky during a tremendous thunderstorm, and you could see the clouds mounting up, a cathedral, with the lights of the downtown buildings...
stopping the fight club 5 Jun 2012 | 10:26 am
So, walking down 14th Street tonight with my friend and we notice this crowd surrounding the Duane Reade entrance. There’s some commotion in the entryway vestibule. People have their camera phones out...
program or be programmed 22 May 2012 | 04:47 pm
My friend Liz Losh, regarding code literary for those in the humanities: The central concept of this panel “Program or Be Programmed” might immediately bring up performance anxiety issues for many pe...
Giving voice 28 Mar 2012 | 06:52 pm
The power of dreams is they make explicit what are usually only vaguely felt or unconscious currents; but they don’t do so by turning them into ordinary thought. They stay elusive and multifaceted. Wr...
you 21 Mar 2012 | 07:35 pm
You lay next to me, pillows on the floor, I gaze at the curve of your waist, your legs disappearing into the distance. We’re both exhausted from days and days of walking and walking. Thirsty, not only...
