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Continue reading →: quote, by erik davis, techgnosis, xxv…we cannot afford to think in the Manichaean terms that often characterize the debate on new technologies. Technology is neither a devil nor an angel. But neither is it simply a “tool,” a neutral extension of some rock-solid human nature. Technology is a trickster, and it has been so since…
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Continue reading →: quote, alfred north whitehead, science and the modern world, 275.Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something tht gives meaning to all that passes, and…
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Continue reading →: quote, forward, vilem flusser, philosophy of languageFlusser never subordinates the other media to language, and so allows the bodily move- ment of images, sounds, shapes and textures to approach the world in parallel with language, without language’s tendency to reduce the particular to the universal, the unique to the general. Sean cubit, in Philosophy of Language,…
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Continue reading →: sophistical practice as a way of introducing aesthetics and non-philosophySo, first let me say that I have been studying philosophy and religion for a good part of my life. It has been a fascinating journey so far. The areas of greatest interest that were instilled in my framework of thinking was this notion of difference and unity, with difference…
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Continue reading →: dora garcia, “to protect us from the truth”, fiction as method, 172What is truth? Consider the following idea: the significance of a statement does not depend on its correspondence with reality or its truth or falsehood, but rather on the effect the statement has, what this statement does, what this statement produces. Since this idea was proposed in 1962 by J.…
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Continue reading →: j. g. ballard, crash, 4-9in a world ruled by fictions of every kind – mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the pre-empting of any original response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. It is now less and less necessary for the writer to invent…
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the power of fiction as a method could be seen as creating new meshworks involving diverse semiotic forms. Fiction thrives as a process that is synthetic in the sense that it gathers into its orbit a number of agents that progressively fill out its content. Indeed this is the very…
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It is no longer a case of establishing the truth about post-truth, or of cleaving fiction from fact, but making tangible the idea that truth and fiction are dynamic concepts that are both produced and productive.
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Continue reading →: science in the modern world, 11
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into it’s trains of reasoning. Whitehead, Alfred North, Science in the Modern World., 11.
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Continue reading →: from fiction as method, 24.
Where the expert seeks to reduce the surplus of knowledge and would thus reduce profitable volatility-fiction turns toward the unknown without seeking to legislate or capitalize on its relation to the knowable; indeed, fiction precisely encourages the impact of the unknown as unknown on the known and its persistence therein.…
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