Recent content by jvm

This just in PowerPoint Turns 20, As Its Creators Ponder A Dark Side to Success One of the most elegant, most influential and most groaned-about pieces of software in the history of computers is 20 years old. There won't be a lot of birthday celebrations for PowerPoint; the program is one the...

And then there's the Hokey Cokey: http://www.langston.com/Fun_People/1996/1996ATA.html

From http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/soren_kierkegaard.html: Since the aesthete, whose characteristic indecisiveness occupies the center of attention throughout the work [Either/Or] , has absolved himself of all ethical and religious ties, he encounters nothing...

Don't think so. Either/Or is Kierkegaard, but I think his term for Plus/And (lots of choices, lots of diversions, no commitment) would be "levelling".

It'd be simplistic to say that pronouncements of cultural importance are defensive, motivated by a need to see off rival claims, with the lines of division being determined socially and politically. But if you wanted to go down that road with Dylan I don't think an anti-Brit thing makes sense...

Given that surreal numbers came from Conway's interest in the theory of games, I expect it to become more "Noughts and Crosses" as Dread's encounter with Badiou on number continues.

Question: does a too-early collectivization of argument make it impossible for a consistency to develop?

KP provides no criteria for distinuishing opinion from argument. A possible indication is the fact that if I opine, no matter what points I muster, I cannot be surprised by my conclusion. The conclusion is known from the outset, and this is the point of the exercise. (Like a government...

Keep up at the back: http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/

SR vs KP on reason and music The dichotomy of reason and emotion is understood as if reason had the power to control the emotions; this power might be over-used by a neurotic, abandoned by a libertine, but used correctly by the wise. This understanding is analogous to the conception of...