March 2009
31 posts
Streams
Harold Innis —> M.McLuhan
Supposing
Every epistemology has an unverifiable foundation, empiricly speaking.
“McLuhan talked about media as an extension of our central nervous system, and we...”
– Steven Berlin Johnson
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Co-travelers
Elizabeth Eisenstein’s magisterial treatment of Gutenberg’s invention,The Printing Press as an Agent of Change.
Noted in Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable.
Selflessness
Self expression is less than personal expression.
Self is an abstraction of person.
Persons are personned within their matrix of relationships.
Self is an ontologically invalid concept insofar as it is an attempt to understand one outside of ones interrelationsjips.
Pain
Illich: suffering has meaning and is not just the negation of pleasure. (medical nemesis)
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Your tv
The virtual self and the socialization crisis. Lasch Quinn (sp?)
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Words
The notion of “person” is different from the notion of “self”. Willfred McKay
Real and abstraction
These are not mutually exclusive, but they have a relational direction to each other.
That is, you can have both together if you start with the real and treat the abstraction as a corollary.
Moving from specific to general can explain the particular specific without losing that specific.
But when you start with the general, there is no tether to a particular specific, and you...
Abstracted Salvation
Salvation primarily as “judicial,” ie Jesus paid the price, or satisfied the law, is an abstract salvation.
Salvation primarily as existentially, onticly “substitutionary”, ie, I am in Christ and he in me, or, all I have is Christs and all he has is mine, the great exchange, is an “actual”, unabstracted Salvation.
Words
Is an opposite of “relationship”, “abstraction”?
Shopclass as Soucraft
a clip from Mars Hill...
Zeitgeist
If true knowing only comes from giving ones self to the subject, the cynic will never know anything.
Polanyi the Outlier
Polanyi’s view of knowledge acquisition coheres with Gladwell’s Outliers theory.
One must give onesself to your object of inquiry.
Connections
T. F. Torrance was Michael Polanyi’s friend and literary executor.
Salt. Light. Not salve or miracle-gro
Said in the same breath
Jacques Ellul
Langdon Winner
Albert Borgman
On Mars Hill Audio
No limits
Aspect of the self: one is limited. To move to surpass limits (in the name of freedom) is to work against ones self. Against ones own humanity.
Wendell Berry: “Hell hath no limits.” from “Faustian Economics”
This seems to also argue against The Singularity.
Recommended reading
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. 1976
Liberty is mastering your passions
Scroll to Book to Screen to Internets
From Walter from M.Mcluhan.
These words you are reading are not text.
Abstraction as barrier to intranets ministry?
The Technium: The Unabomber Was Right
The Technium is not hardware. It’s more like an organism. http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/02/the_unabomber_w.php
Keep Your Identity Small →
Shane Hipps on Virtual Community →
Many Species, One Mind →
KK’s thoughts on Dyson’s Darwin Among The Machines
Can there be a “One Mind” beyond the Mind of Christ?
Scan This Book! - New York Times →
Your hermeneutical approach ought to be able to handle the One Book.
Gamasutra - Analysis: 'Inside The Penny Arcade... →
[In this intriguing analysis piece, originally part of ‘The Game Anthropologist’ column on sister site GameSetWatch, Michael Walbridge examines and appreciates the togetherness created by the Penny Arcade forums, a unique and lively community built around the popular game-related webcomic.]