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