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Hugo Ball & the Secret Language | natural truth
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Hugo Ball and the Secret Language. Leave a comment ». Wikipedia has sent me down another rabbit hole. This time it’s Hugo Ball and Dada, with this line from the Austin Osman Spare article. I found an essay that has served as a decent introduction to Ball’s spiritual ideas:. Religion in Flux: Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings: Dada’s Prophets of the Word. In his introduction to. Flight Out of Time. What Spare was attempting with his use of sigilization and the alphabet of desire. Imagining Language: An Anthology.
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Culture as rhizome | natural truth
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I have passed some sort of event horizon and am falling without hope of escape into postmodernism. This is my first introduction to Gilles Deleuze (& Félix Guattari’s? As it applies to the (re)production of culture. He developed it in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Which is the sequel to. I found this definition in the glossary of a postmodern look at. Via wikipedia), which was published in the online journal. I now really want to read the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia.
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Definitions | natural truth
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Leave a comment ». Is a discursive formation. Defining human existence and imbuing existence with inherent value thus providing a reference for evaluating experience (creating meaning). B transgressing one state of existence for another. Is an expression of the utility (instrumental value) or experience (intrinsic value) of a mental event. In relation to the inherent value of human existence (i.e. as defined by religion). 1 Or “discursive construct” as defined by Foucault. And postulates some essence of ...
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Odds & Ends: Articles on Nietzsche, Science & Genetic Altruism | natural truth
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Odds and Ends: Articles on Nietzsche, Science and Genetic Altruism. Leave a comment ». I’ve been reading a very helpful article on Nietzsche’s political and moral philosophy. By Brian Leiter and Edward N. Zalta (ed.) from the on-line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. My interest in Nietzsche most recently relates to his influence on Austin Osman Spare, Hugo Ball. And (perhaps indirectly) Andrew Chumbley. I had started by jumping headfirst into. In other reading, I came across an interesting essay,.
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George R. Price – A Tragedy of Meaning | natural truth
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George R. Price – A Tragedy of Meaning. Leave a comment ». Was listening again to Radiolab and came upon a fascinating segment on altruism in evolutionary biology. The segment was largely about George R. Price. And drew from the book. The Price of Altruism. By Oren Harman. The central issue was the Price Equation. Price concluded from this that no. Some interesting bits lifted from a book review. This is a book for anyone interested in the question, first posed by Darwin himself, of how we ended up with ...
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Arguing with Johnathon Z. Smith around the definition of religion | natural truth
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Arguing with Johnathon Z. Smith around the definition of religion. Leave a comment ». Reading within sociological Symbolic Interactionism has had me doubting the usefulness of creating definitions for religion. That presume to work outside of a specific social context. I am tempted to identify wholeheartedly with J.Z. Smith. 8216;s criticism, below, but I don’t think it’s perfect. And here I go down the rabbit hole again… from Smith:. 8230; goes on to sketch the quality of “religious” …]. To be blunt, th...
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