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Continue reading →: combining process, postmodernism, and poststructuralism in imagination
I haven’t written a blog post in a bit, and wanted to at least throw out there what I am studying on, writing on. Currently, I am reading Derrida, mainly two texts, The Insistence of God by Caputo, and Derrida and Theology by Shakespeare. They have been fascinating so far.…
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Continue reading →: truth, religion, and process
One of my main interests throughout my education has been trying to answer the question, “What is truth? What is ultimately true?” Now any reader may brush this off as not important, since we live in a postmodern/postcolonial world, but I would argue against that for various reasons. For simplicity…
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Continue reading →: 5 axioms of alfred north whitehead’s speculative philosophy
In describing his Speculative Philosophy, Alfred North Whitehead shapes two categories; a rational side and empirical side. The rational is that of analysis: the empirical, that of value, importance. The rational side in his metaphysics, or speculative philosophy, is found in the terms coherence and logic (consistency), “a coherent, logical,…
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Continue reading →: nomadology: deleuze, the state and the war machine
In an essay entitled “Treatise on Nomadology—The War Machine” in A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze’ critiques the notion of the state by not its opposite, but rather exterior from it; he develops the concept of the nomad/war machine. I call it exterior from the State, because its opposite can still…
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Continue reading →: horizontal-izing the vertical, eradicating the extremes: scales of value
When we think we think in bifurcations. Up/down. Left/right. Right/wrong. This way of thinking causes either/or mentality. It indicates that one is right, and the other is wrong. But what would happen if we flatten it out? We make what is vertical thinking horizontal? What if we said that in…
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