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And for a long time yet, led by some wondrous power, I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes, and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through unknown invisible tears. And still far away is that time when, with […]

Tsiyyon

“they did read contrary from that which I translated and caused to be written; and if I should bring forth the same words again, or, in other words, if I should translate the same” (my emphasis) “over again,” Joseph Smith Herman MelvilleNathaniel HawthorneAbraham LincolnFredrick DouglassEdgar Allen PoeWalt WhitmanAlexander Tocqueville Did any of these people […]

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Ὡς οὖν ἔγνω ὁ Ἰησοῦς ὅτι ἤκουσαν οἱ φαρισαῖοι ὅτι Ἰησοῦς πλείονας μαθητὰς ποιεῖ καὶ βαπτίζει ἢ Ἰωάννης2 καίτοιγε Ἰησοῦς αὐτὸς οὐκ ἐβάπτιζεν ἀλλ’ οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ3 ἀφῆκεν τὴν Ἰουδαίαν καὶ ἀπῆλθεν πάλιν εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν.4 ἔδει δὲ αὐτὸν διέρχεσθαι διὰ τῆς Σαμαρείας.5 ἔρχεται οὖν εἰς πόλιν τῆς Σαμαρείας λεγομένην Συχὰρ πλησίον τοῦ χωρίου ὃ […]

Model

“It will come into being ‘ when there is a free people and when reason has once again given birth to reality as an ethical spirit which will be bold enough to take shape on its own soil and from a sense of its own majesty. ‘ Hegel “Sure enough they are dead. . . […]

Excerpt

“The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him—it cannot fail. . . .” Walt Whitman The essay attempts a massive synthesis between Kantian ethics, structural anthropology, post-structuralist philosophy, and contemporary complexity science. Its central movement is from law and structure, to excess and rupture, to the instability of every structure once […]

The Jungle

How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense. I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. Kafka This work began in the margins of disparate texts—Dante’s Commedia, Bentham’s prison memoranda, Marx’s factory ledgers, George’s fiscal pamphlets, Foucault’s genealogies, Derrida’s hauntologies—and in the […]

Ptolemy

Ptolemy usually means Claudius Ptolemy, the Greco-Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, geographer, and astrologer of Roman Egypt. But the name can also mean Ptolemy I Soter, Alexander the Great’s general who founded the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. I’ll start with Claudius Ptolemy, the scholar. Claudius Ptolemy was probably born around 100 CE, most likely in Egypt, then […]

OCT

The Oceanicalulatron began as an engine and ended as a mirror. What first appeared to be a speculative machine of ferrofluid basins, resonant vortices, and predictive tensors gradually revealed itself as a more exact name for the condition of life itself: a being made of circulating pressures, recursive calibrations, and unfinished interpretations. It is not […]

Dick

Tyrian purple—sometimes misrendered as “Pyrian” in later manuscripts—takes its name from the Phoenician port of Tyre, whose dyers mastered a secret extraction of color from the hypobranchial gland of Mediterranean murex snails. The process required thousands of Murex brandaris or Murex trunculus, broken while still alive, their glands mixed with brine and exposed to sunlight […]

Syndrom

If you were to treat the human heart, or just the heart in general, its anatomy, its biology, if you were to treat it as a being, what would you say about it? It would be a creature of discipline before all else: not glamorous, not contemplative, not given to rest, but ancient, faithful, and […]

森

水 means “water.” In modern Mandarin it is pronounced shuǐ. It is one of the basic Chinese characters and also one of the traditional five phases or elements in Chinese thought, where it is associated with fluidity, descent, cold, storage, winter, and yielding force. As a character, 水 can stand alone to mean water itself, […]

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Pavel

Acid rain is fairly new, no? No. Acid rain as a phenomenon is not new in itself. Rainwater has always been able to become somewhat acidic, especially in places affected by volcanic gases, forest fires, or other natural sulfur and nitrogen emissions. What is relatively new is acid rain as a large-scale industrial environmental problem. […]