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Human beings eat not only to survive but to secure the very openness through which the world appears. What begins as an everyday choice between nourishing meals and seductive junk food quickly ramifies into questions of physiology, perception, and political order. Poor food is not merely a deficit; it actively burdens the body, kindling chronic […]

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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, to transfer the Jovian name and office onto Saturn without simply equating them would invert one of the oldest structuring oppositions in Indo-European myth: the displacement of the father by the son, the seizure of rule by a younger, more agile power from an older, devouring one. […]

Altar

In every age humankind is lost Except those who do the Deed enjoined with that Truth enjoined with this Patience Halal meat is meat prepared according to Islamic dietary law. In the classical form, the animal must be a lawful species, alive and healthy at the time of slaughter, the slaughter is done in God’s […]

Transmission

Nyquist refers to a cluster of ideas centered on the Swedish-American engineer Harry Nyquist, whose work in the early twentieth century formalized limits on signal transmission, stability, and sampling. In its most commonly invoked form—the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem—it states that a continuous signal can be perfectly reconstructed from discrete samples if it is sampled at […]

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Sing. Sign. Signal descends from Latin signum—“mark, token, standard”—whose root sekw- denotes following or pointing out. Via Old French signe and the suffixed diminutive signal, the term entered Middle English in the fourteenth century for military banners and trumpet calls. Seventeenth-century naval manuals broadened its range to include flag codes; the Industrial Revolution then fixed […]

Kronos

I ran through the fabric of hours whenever my mind lingered on that dark oval set into the flank of the sanctuary, for she hears in the stone’s mute gravity the same quiet permission that modern laboratories find in relativistic drift or in the shimmering hesitation of a time-crystal. The pilgrim who touches the fractured […]

Vermos

Hermes under the light of Venus does not simply swap one planet for another; it stages an alchemical graft that fuses the circuitry of logos with the charge of eros. In classical lore Hermes governs liminality—thresholds, crossroads, swift exchange—while Venus (Hesperos in the evening sky) governs attraction and the magnetic pull of beauty. By letting […]

Il Ya

The New York Times (22 January 1978), Ingmar Bergman “I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.” The tension Wahl and Levinas expose obliges the historian to treat philosophical texts not as stable milestones on a linear path but as contingent disturbances whose resonance mutates each time they are cited, […]

Ev

. All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed. | The doctrine that in living things there […]

Chokey

Imagine, if you will, the front of the thigh unveiled beneath a surgeon’s lamp: four broad crimson ribbons lying side by side, glossy with life. Closest to the skin runs the vastus lateralis, that outer sweep which flares like a sail against the hip. Beside it, half-hidden, the vastus medialis forms a teardrop that cups […]

Exec

The crazy thing about Kant is that Categories (as such) dont work if they arent rigorously applied to pure reason. People think talking like a retard is some form of intelligence. What Derrida wants to do is to say that there’s a pure difference and that difference and deferral have a purity— in order to […]

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BOG stands six foot nine three hubdred and fifty seven pounds. The battle at wounded knee. DONT NEED IT.

maurice

Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, critic, and philosopher of literature whose work circles around absence, death, language, solitude, and the strange impersonal force of writing. Born in 1907 and dying in 2003, he occupies an unusual place between literature and philosophy: not quite a novelist in the ordinary sense, not quite a systematic philosopher […]