July 2010
1 post
“Up now, slight man! flee, for a little while, thy occupations; hide thyself,...”
– St. Aselm, Basic Writings, qtd in Primary Readings in Philosophy for Understanding Theology. This is what he wrote prior to beginning his theological musings. A good prayer prior to beginning theological musings of any kind!
June 2010
14 posts
“Fools and young people talk about everything being possible for a human being....”
– Kierkegaard, “Fear and Trembling”. p72ff
“… if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that...”
– Kierkegaard, “Fear and Trembling”
“Jesus asked in Gethsemane, “Could you not watch with me one hour?” That is a...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, To Eberhard Bethge, July 16, 1944 (9 months before his execution in a concentration camp) (via blrting)
“The movement for planning owes its present strength largely to the fact that,...”
– Hayek, 2007, on the “inevitability” of planning, p.99.
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“While there can be thus little doubt that the movement toward planning is the...”
– Hayek, 2007, on The “Inevitability” of Planning, pp.97-98.
WatchTowards a better digital magazine.
“It must be admitted that it is possible that, by compulsory standardization or...”
– Hayek, 2007, on The “Inevitability” of Planning, p.97.
“[Planners] generally suggest that the increasing difficulty of obtaining a...”
– Hayek, 2007, on The “Inevitability” of Planning, p.95.
Limitlessness is a fundamental aspect of the internets. Particularly, it is a limitlessness driven into personal identity.
True selves have limits.
“Hell hath no limits.” W.Berry
“It is a revealing fact that few planners are content to say that central...”
– Hayek, 2007, on The “Inevitability” of Planning, p91
“In no system that could be rationally defended would the state just do nothing. ...”
– Hayek, 2007, on individualism and collectivism, p88.
May 2010
12 posts
3 tags
Information Teleportation →
Overheard:
“It’s not so bad being old, it simplifies alot of things.”
Dad has an iPhone.
2 tags
WatchHT: The Quantified Self
the evolution of Facebook privacy →
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Understand The Web →
Want to know if your ‘HTML application’ is part of the web? Link me into it. Not just link me to it; link me into it. Not just to the black-box frontpage. Link me to a piece of content. Show me that it can be crawled, show me that we can draw strands of silk between the resources presented in your app. That is the web: The beautiful interconnection of navigable content. If your website locks...
“What creation has established, no culture is able to destroy.”
– J.R.W.Stott, The Last Word, p59
The Medium isn't the Message →
Democratic revolutions require such deliberation and philosophical nourishment — more than can be delivered in 140-character bites. The Internet is a medium like none the world has ever known. But the medium isn’t the message. And in the struggle for liberty, the message matters most.
Immanence | Transcendence
Concrete | Abstraction
Flesh | Algorithm
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End User
when you abstract labor from the end product, you get an assembly line.
when you abstract a person from the thing being produced, you call them the “end user”.
April 2010
9 posts
4 tags
Implantable Electronics →
enfleshment of technology
but "why" is a question for all ages
how:modernity :: who:postmodernity
1 tag
God is not a cosmic API call.
Though, given the internets, you’d be forgiven for having that as a tacitly developed conceptual model.
is the internet abstraction incarnate?
The children of cyberspace. →
1 tag
March 2010
8 posts
It could be worse.
I think that Voltaire has a point in making fun of the Christian Strawman’s worldview that “this is the best of all possible worlds.” Because it sure does not seem best!
But the truer, non-strawman’s take is that this is the best of all possible fallen worlds, the best of all possible sin-filled worlds. (Cause, duh, the best possible world was the one in which A&E...
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Jason Santa Maria's Bibliography →
“I’m always up for finding new books to help me better understand design or improve my practices, but it can be very difficult to find the meat from so many fatty offerings. That’s why I try to keep this list focused on design, type, and theory. There are many lists for good web design books around, but few of just straight up good design books, and many of these topics are applicable...
Memory [Forever] →
“Memory [Forever] is our week-long consideration of what it really means when our memories, encoded in bits, flow in a million directions, and might truly live forever.
‘New Class’ Analysis and the Critique of the... →
“… it is equally important to recognize how traditional, indeed classical, is the question that lurks inside the problem of the new class: intellectuals and power, enlightenment and politics, conceptual thinking and lived life. From one point of view, the rise of the new class involves the priority of thinking—not any thinking, however, but a technocratically foreshortened,...
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“We are under grace, and we are ourselves the objective of its attack. Not only...”
– Barth, 1968 p217, on Romans 7:16
February 2010
31 posts
“Grace, then, means neither that men can or ought to do something, nor that they...”
– Barth, 1968 p216-217, on Romans 7:16
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“The functioning of a competition not only requires adequate organization of...”
– Hayek, 2007, on individualism and collectivism, p87.
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“It is important not to confuse opposition against this kind of planning with a...”
– Hayek, 2007, on individualism and collectivism, p85-86.
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“The dispute between the modern planners [socialist thinkers] and their opponents...”
– Hayek, 2007, on individualism and collectivism, p85.
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“It must also not be forgotten that socialism is not only by far the most...”
– Hayek, 2007, on individualism and collectivism, p84.
“To the great apostles of political freedom, [“freedom,” the word]...”
– Hayek, 2007, on the the great utopia, p77-78.