Blogs about: Alterity

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Invisible Writing6 comments

Joseph Weissman wrote 3 weeks ago: The outside, or Other, is accorded an incomparable eminence in the work of Emmanuel Levinas. In his … more »

Tags: desire, difference, Freedom, imperceptible, language, metaphysics, Nobility, Outside, Politics

Outside

Joseph Weissman wrote 1 month ago: The relation between me and the other commences in the inequality of terms, transcendent to one ano … more »

Tags: Awareness, being, difference, inequality, inhumanity, language, Lévinas, Love, metaphysics

Heidegger on Descartes' use of 'God' as equipment

Nathan wrote 4 months ago: ”By substance we can understand nothing else than an entity which is in such a way that it needs n … more »

Tags: Philosophy, Heidegger, Aristotle, Jeremiah, ontotheology, Descartes

Beached soviet espionage outposts1 comment

imagineering wrote 5 months ago: “From 1988 to 2001, groups of Russian weapons inspectors were stationed at the Hercules Aeros … more »

Tags: Mimesis, Sign, CLUI, Decay, Architecture

TV elsewhere

imagineering wrote 5 months ago: Top: Tim and Eric’s TV show on the web. Tim and Eric have two amazing short shows on the Cart … more »

Tags: Video, Sign, language, Adaptation

Notes on Ethics and Difference4 comments

Joseph Weissman wrote 5 months ago: Notes on Ethics and Alterity 1. From Music Could we imagine that the ethical is a musical progress … more »

Tags: ontology, multiplicity, metaphysics, ethics, difference, Other, One, Music, Morality

Expression and Essence: The Metaphysics of Writing1 comment

Joseph Weissman wrote 5 months ago: (A video podcast covering material in this post can be found here.) A verb is that which, in add … more »

Tags: Aristotle, Blueprint, break, essence, eyes, form, hallucination, hands, Heidegger

The Thought of Language

Joseph Weissman wrote 5 months ago: The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, b … more »

Tags: History, Memory, time, difference, language, being, expression, Transcendence, Science

Temporality and Power: The Politics of Absence

Joseph Weissman wrote 5 months ago: In the relation of the human being to language, a process is reflected that extends to the relation … more »

Tags: concept, Critique, ethics, Infinity, language, metaphysics, Morality, ontology, Politics

R. Beardsworth: The Future of Critical Philosophy and World Politics

akriese wrote 7 months ago: The author is interested in re-examining Derrida’s legacy and its role in critical philoso … more »

Tags: kant, Law, Aporía, Derrida, enlightenment, Rogues, Post-modernism, Modernism, social democracy

Darwin and Scarlet Cloth/ 达尔文与一块红布

Dun Wang wrote 9 months ago: Michael Taussig, Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses (New York: Routledge, 199 … more »

Tags: Mimesis, Michael Taussig, Darien peninsula, buccaneers, 达尔文, Cuna Indian, Brasilium, Spanish Main, Darwin

The Nomenclature of Psychedelic Experience4 comments

mazerunner wrote 9 months ago: Well, what shall we call them, those substances you ingest, inject, inhale, incorporate into the bod … more »

Tags: psychedelics, drug policy, Entheogen, psychotomimetic, war on drugs, MK-Ultra, Consciousness, Humphrey Osmond, hallucinogens

Commercial

imagineering wrote 1 year ago: Just another day at the Commercial Casino in Elko, Nevada. Apparently the stuffed version of the … more »

Tags: Mimesis, Sculpture, advertising, Tourism, Sign, language

Paris hilton is here to teach us

imagineering wrote 1 year ago: “What is important to grasp here is the strangely naive and ultimately perplexing point that a … more »

Tags: advertising, Art, Mimesis, Photography, Pop

Lunarcy

imagineering wrote 1 year ago: If I had a playstation I would DEFINITELY get it customized with an airbrushed 3d lunar landscape an … more »

Tags: Mimesis, Sculpture, Game

Entrepreneurial spirit

imagineering wrote 1 year ago: … more »

Tags: advertising, Mimesis, Photography

Image bites back

imagineering wrote 1 year ago: Wow, please watch this AWESOME viral ad by Mr and Mrs Wheatley. Press play… Love it. Art hist … more »

Tags: Mimesis, interactivity

Bechers, Gursky, Like.com

imagineering wrote 1 year ago: I’ve recently come across Like.com, and I think it’s a fascinating evolution of typology … more »

Tags: Mimesis, typology, Photography

"The art of quotation"

imagineering wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been reading an excellent book by Michael Taussig called Mimesis and Alterity. Mimesis = … more »

Tags: Blogging, Mimesis, Quote


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