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the Order of Things again
The transition from the 16th century mode of understanding to the Classical mode was a transition from divination to signification. In the 16th century, the world itself was a series of signs, which existed previous to our knowledge of them, placed by God waiting for us to divine them. The early 17th century brought a transformation of this mode of ( Read more... ) -
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At work, someone asked me if I could explain the difference between modernism and postmodernism. Like any sane, reflective person, my immediate answer was, "No." That kind of question is murky at best, and hopeless at worst. But given that my only options were to come up with something more verbose or go back to work, I felt the need to spin ( Read more... ) -
important science news
Live updates on whether the Large Hadron Collider has destroyed the earth yet:
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
Also, the word of the day is: geoid.
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The tiger dances; the dragon mounts the wind and waves;
the principal seat of the true centre generates the mysterious pearl.
Fruit produced on the branch will, in time, ripen;
could the baby in the womb be any different?
South and north accord with the Source [through] inversion of the signs of the trigrams;
at daybreak and dusk the five phases [of the ( Read more... ) -
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I knocked off work a bit early today, because the boss accidentally dropped a tablesaw on my knee. No shit.
Well, not ON my knee, per se. It glanced off my knee, leaving me with about a square centimeter of skin missing (not scraped, gone) and a joint that smarts considerably. There was very little blood. We were moving it off a dolly, and it ( Read more... )
