amor ludi is a love of the game. it's a concept i'm trying to build out more in a metamodern way. the problem is this: what does it mean to play for the love of the game? there's somet...
the waste land is a poem by t.s. eliot, a possible act of mythopoesis. references include aeneid metamorphoses satyricon inferno purgatorio
the tragedy of hamlet, prince of denmark is an english tragedy by shakespeare. one of his longest and most complex plays, it has been an enduring staple of english literature and literary critic. t...
a stoic practices stoicism, the hellenistic philosophy founded by zeno of citium (c. 335252 bc) who studied with plato's successors at the academy in athens. zeno taught at the stoa, meaning po...
philosophy happens when friends of wisdom create concepts (socrates; deleuze) discuss (rorty) how to direct their lives (seneca) and dispel misconceptions that hinder them (wittgenstein). A philoso...
dante and shakespeare divide the world between them. there is no third. thomas stearns eliot (18881965) was a writer of poems, plays, and literary critic. he was born in st. louis, missouri, spen...
gilles deleuze (18 january 1925 4 november 1995) was a french philosopher and, to me, the philosopher's philosopher and a sage. his work grapples with difference, creativity, thought, and beco...
information is meaningness in a signal. It could be a quality, a quantity, a relation, a modality. But it is certainly a rather abstract idea. the information revolution allowed us to quantify info...
before the seas and land had been created, before the sky that covers everything, nature displayed a single aspect only throughout the cosmos; chaos was its name, a shapeless, unwrought mass of ine...
books may well be the only true magic. – alice hoffman any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – arthur c. clarke books are some of the most advanced technology...
all art is quite useless. – wilde the greeks spoke of art as mimesis, mimicking nature. The German idealists (kant and friedrich schiller) saw art as a form of play. art is a human activity, ...
abstraction is thinking about a system in terms of interface – its inputs and outputs. an abstraction is said to be leaky if it requires the user to understand the internal mechanism to use it. thi...