Utopianism: Threat or danger?
Shannon Bain has posted a long, thoughtful probing of Everything Is Miscellaneous and my defense of cyber-utopianism. It’s philosophical, serious, and generally right in its criticisms. He writes about...
View ArticleHeidegger film’s reception
A mailing list I’m on had a discussion about the movie “Only a God Can Save Us” (amazon) about Martin Heidegger’s Nazism. One of the contributors to the mailing list quoted a length from a personal...
View Article[2b2k] Understanding’s web
I’m on a mailing list that discusses the philosopher Martin Heidegger. Many years ago I was a fledgling Heidegger scholar, but now I am on the list strictly as a tourist. Today someone posted: “If you...
View ArticleSunday funnies
In the comments to my post about understanding Heidegger in translation, Seth Young reminds us of this video, which I had in fact seen before but forgotten. And, oh, what the heck….
View Article[2b2k] Re-reading myselves
When I run into someone who wants to talk with me about something I’ve written in a book, they quite naturally assume that I am more expert about what I’ve written than they are. But it’s almost...
View ArticleWith a little twist of Heidegger
I’m giving a talk in Berlin in a week. My hosts want me to talk about the evolution of media, but suggested that I might want to weave some Heidegger in, which is not a request you often get. It’s a...
View Article[2b2k] Truth, knowledge, and not knowing: A response to “The Internet Ruins...
Quentin Hardy has written up on the NYT Bits blog the talk I gave at UC Berkeley’s School of Information a few days ago, refracting it through his intelligence and interests. It’s a terrific post and I...
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[2b2k] Facts, truths, and meta-knowledge
Last night I gave a talk at the Festival of Science in Genoa (or, as they say in Italy, Genova). I was brought over by Codice Edizioni, the publisher of the just-released Italian version of Too Big to...
View ArticleHeidegger on technology, and technodeterminism
I’m leaving tomorrow night for a few days in Germany as a fellow at the University of Stuttgart’s International Center for Research on Culture and Technology. I’ll be giving a two-day workshop with...
View Article[2b2k] Agre on minds and hands
I recently published a column at KMWorld pointing out some of the benefits of having one’s thoughts share a context with people who build things. Today I came across an article by Jethro Masis titled...
View ArticleBeen working on something (and it’s not this poemsicle).
I haven’t been blogging because I’ve been working many, many hours a day on a project that’s set to go live on Thursday at 10am EST, or so we hope.> Hopefully you’re going to love it or hate it. In...
View ArticleTransliterating Heidegger
As a result of lurking in a mailing list’s conversation about whether and how to translate Heidegger’s use of the ancient Greek term φυσις, I did some poking around at Google. φυσις...
View ArticleHeidegger on living aware of death: Maybe not
I’m on a Heidegger mailing list where I get to lurk as serious scholars probe his writings and thoughts, and, not infrequently these days, his politics. Recently, a member of the list I highly respect...
View ArticleQuine’s typewriter – and Heidegger’s, too
“Quine … had his 1927 Remington portable modified to handle symbolic logic. Among the characters that he sacrificed was the question mark. “Well, you see, I deal in certainties,” he explained.” [1]...
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