As I sit here typing from the bowels of Levinas (god, I can't wait for this semester to be over!!!), I became bored. So bored that I checked up on livejournal. livingfossil (hey, you've been getting some press in my journa lately, eh?) asked for reading suggestions and I made some. The point here is that he asked about poetry, and I like peotry a lot even ( Read more... )

So when you are writing a paper sometimes you get bored and since the internet is right at your fingertips, one tend to wander. At any rate, check this out: Heidegger on MySpace!

I haven't quite finalized anything and am looking for input on how to make it funnier. Enjoy!

I asked for my moo to match the weather, but it went the other way around: the sun is shining brightly right now, but it's pouring rain.

Yup, I think that just about sums it up!

Well, I had a rought day. In order to divert myself, I set myself to translating Seu Jorge's lyrics to David Bowie's "Life on Mars" as appearing in Life Aquatic. Armed with naught but my knowledge of Spanish and French grammar (believe it or not, the French was helpful) and a faithful Portuguese dictionary, I have rendered them thusly ( Read more... )

So I finished four or five pages of my Merleau-Ponty Circle tonight: oh so productive ( Read more... )

As indicated, I'm feeling a bit devious tonight. Again I find myself not able to sleep readily, but instead of wanting to sleep, I am wanting to go out and make trouble. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view) for me, my friends are either asleep or too drunk to talk clearly. *hehehe ( Read more... )

As livingfossilcited me in his response to the final question, I felt somewhat compelled to answer. My responses may prove somewhat different from the usual, however, since I trade more in philosophy than in literature. Let's see, shall we?

You're stuck inside Farenheit 451, which book do you want to be?

Martin Heidegger's Being and Time because therein ( Read more... )

In today's NY Times, Scientists have discovered that certain plants have some sort of back-up mechanism that allows for the correction of inherited undesireable mutations back to their normal state.

Dr. Pruitt said the backup genome could be particularly useful for self-fertilizing plants, as arabidopsis is, since it could help avoid the adverse ( Read more... )

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I have just received word that Martin Dillon, one of the founding members of the Merleau-Ponty circle and author of the definitive examination of Meleau-Ponty's philosophy, has just passed away while on a trip to Europe. For me, this news is more tragic than the passing of Derrida. I had just met Dillon this past fall; he was an amicable fellow ( Read more... )