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Creative Reading: January 2013
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Thursday, January 10, 2013. Science in virtual reality. Like many Dutch academics, I resisted the idea of buying Diederik Stapel’s book Ontsporing. So far) it breathes an atmosphere of “immeasurable loneliness”, and comes across as an honest attempt at soul-searching, filled with apparently sincere expressions of deep regret and shame. Stapel knows that his actions are inexcusable, and makes no attempt to let himself off the hook: the book has mea culpa. Although Stapel describes his “derailment...
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Creative Reading: March 2014
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Friday, March 28, 2014. Exterminate all the Idols. The Fall of the Hermetic Idols. I’ve been reading a lot of different things lately, and not everything will find its way into this blog. But I definitely need to write about my experiences with a somewhat older book by two French scholars that I bought second-hand and devoured from cover to cover: Carmen Bernand’s and Serge Gruzinski’s De l’idolâtrie: Une archéologie des sciences humaines. Century colonialization of Mexico and Peru. Garcilaso de la Vega.
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Creative Reading: December 2013
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Thursday, December 26, 2013. One of the most interesting books about religion that I’ve read in recent years came from an unexpected angle. Michael Muhammad Knight’s Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writings. He went on to study Islam at Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, and came close to joining the Chechnyan war against Russia. Having become disenchanted with Islamic orthodoxy, he started experimenting with a range of alternative Muslim identities, including the Nation of Islam. Is the acute ...
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Creative Reading: December 2012
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012. Last year, stunning revelations about the systematic scientific fraud committed by social psychologist Diederik Stapel sent shockwaves through the Dutch academic community. This week, the official committee in charge of examining the case, headed by the ex-president of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences Prof. Dr. Willem Levelt, presented its final report Flawed Science: The Fraudulent Research Practices of Social Psychologist Diederik Stapel. The report can be downloaded here.
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Creative Reading: Exterminate all the Idols
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Friday, March 28, 2014. Exterminate all the Idols. The Fall of the Hermetic Idols. I’ve been reading a lot of different things lately, and not everything will find its way into this blog. But I definitely need to write about my experiences with a somewhat older book by two French scholars that I bought second-hand and devoured from cover to cover: Carmen Bernand’s and Serge Gruzinski’s De l’idolâtrie: Une archéologie des sciences humaines. Century colonialization of Mexico and Peru. Garcilaso de la Vega.
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Creative Reading: November 2013
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Friday, November 22, 2013. Butchering the Corpus Hermeticum: Breaking News on Ficino's Pimander. In the spring of 2002, a group of devoted Ficino aficionados. Met at the home of Prof. Sebastiano Gentile. To discuss the need for modern critical editions of the great Florentine Platonist’s writings. One of the young scholars present at this meeting, Maurizio Campanelli. Decided to take a closer look at Ficino’s famous translation of treatises I-XIV of the Corpus Hermeticum. But no: a crucial manuscript fro...
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Creative Reading: Of Essences and Energies
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Thursday, October 17, 2013. Of Essences and Energies. For some reason I am fascinated (dare I say “obsessed”? By the history of the conflict between “paganism” and Christanity. Some years ago, when I discovered Gore Vidal’s novel about the 4th century pagan emperor Julian. 8221; (ibid.). The Hesychast attempt to keep Creator and Creation apart by distinguishing God’s uncreated essence. Was unacceptable for “pagan” Platonists: God’s energies could not be separate from his essence, and he...But is this dis...
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Wayland's Smithy: november 2008
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Mysteries of the Magpie Rocks. Mijn lijst met blogs. Homophobia and the Politics of Biblical Translation. In your dreams, Leonora! Vrijdag 21 november 2008. Mysteries of the Magpie Rocks. We recently had the pleasure of visiting one of the most significant neo-pagan sanctuaries in Germany. Situated in the Teutoburg Forest, not far from the purported site of Arminius’ famed victory over the Romans, the Externsteine. At the solstices and Walpurgisnacht. Something oddly humourless in his grin…. In 1926 an a...
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Wayland's Smithy: Mysteries of the Magpie Rocks
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Mysteries of the Magpie Rocks. Mijn lijst met blogs. Homophobia and the Politics of Biblical Translation. In your dreams, Leonora! Vrijdag 21 november 2008. Mysteries of the Magpie Rocks. We recently had the pleasure of visiting one of the most significant neo-pagan sanctuaries in Germany. Situated in the Teutoburg Forest, not far from the purported site of Arminius’ famed victory over the Romans, the Externsteine. At the solstices and Walpurgisnacht. Something oddly humourless in his grin…. In 1926 an a...
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Creative Reading: Fatima's Knight
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Thursday, December 26, 2013. One of the most interesting books about religion that I’ve read in recent years came from an unexpected angle. Michael Muhammad Knight’s Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writings. He went on to study Islam at Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, and came close to joining the Chechnyan war against Russia. Having become disenchanted with Islamic orthodoxy, he started experimenting with a range of alternative Muslim identities, including the Nation of Islam. Is the acute ...