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Don’t confuse your Lifestyle Enclave for an Authentic Community.
(listening to Mars Hill Audio, vol. 108, no. 6)
Posted on October 18, 2011
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What hard liquor, cigarettes, heroin, and crack have in common is that they’re all more concentrated forms of less addictive predecessors. Most if not all the things we describe as addictive are. And the scary thing is, the process that created them is accelerating.
We wouldn’t want to stop it. It’s the same process that cures diseases: technological progress. Technological progress means making things do more of what we want. When the thing we want is something we want to want, we consider technological progress good. If some new technique makes solar cells x% more efficient, that seems strictly better. When progress concentrates something we don’t want to want—when it transforms opium into heroin—it seems bad. But it’s the same process at work. [1]
Paul Graham, The Acceleration of Addictiveness(Source: paulgraham.com)
Posted on October 17, 2011
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That explains it
The System is the Theodicy of the Postmodern Age.
Posted on October 17, 2011
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This body has meaning.
I wonder if the proliferation of tattoos is a subconscious cultural response against the strong current of Gnosticism in modernity and postmodernity.
Posted on October 15, 2011
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as I make the depressing rounds of publishers, I often think my dissertation could have been better as a Tumblr. My argument about the affinities between the Deere tractor, the Deere logo and the Deere Headquarters could be brought home by a stream of carefully organized images, comparisons made by adjacency rather than words. Tumblrs create a narrative, some on purpose, some by accident.
Posted on October 15, 2011
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Reductio ad scientia
Technology is instantiated knowledge.
Belief that knowledge is the path to salvation is Gnosticism.
Modernity and postmodernity’s faith in Technology is the same old old old Gnosticism.
(Which, you will recall, goes even back to the choice, “know good and evil,” over relational trust.)
Posted on October 14, 2011
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Taken with instagram
Posted on October 13, 2011
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Now THAT is a capella!
A mostly a cappella cover of Metallica. (They use a real drummer; all the other “instruments” are vocal.)
Might be the most epic thing you’ll hear all year.
Van Canto - Master of Puppets (by NobuoRi)
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homousious
It makes a difference if you think Jesus had a perfect humanity vs him having a perfected humanity.
My money is on the latter.
Posted on October 12, 2011
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(via thingssheloves)
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(via thingssheloves)
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(via thingssheloves)
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119 species + 11 genera + 7 decades of gaming = the most extensive charting of video game controllers ever.
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(via thingssheloves)
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A Sign of Things To Come
John the Evangelist was into semiotics before it was cool.
Posted on September 24, 2011
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