The following is a personal response to an article by a Mr. Lanier (vides And Now a Brief Word from Now: Logical Dependencies Between Vernacular Concepts of Free Will, Time and Consciousness. Lanier's view on Now (in the moment) perception have been slightly brushed off and the root of this criticsm falls upon Mr. Lanier's concluding remarks.Mr. ( Read more... )

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Accept as true DeLanda’s Deleuzean ontology ( Read more... )

You know what is extremely funny? It's 1 a.m. and I have a mid term coming up for my Free Will and Determinism class tomorrow (oddly it has been the cause of much concern and stress as of late). And instead of going to bed, I find myself furthering any sort of clinical depression by delving into the depths of this cyber world. Also, I took the ( Read more... )

While sitting in Piazza Della Republica in Firenze about a week ago with Devan and Navid, we (the group collectively) came upon a quite sobering realization ( Read more... )

Cavell’s thesis on the significance of Film and our interpretation of its world in our memory banks helps to suggest a bilateral register of memory which the individual uses to comprehend his universe: one of prescribed memory which insights introspection and one of nostalgic memory which romanticizes, distorts, historical significance for the ( Read more... )

In order for one to ascertain whether an individual could voluntarily reform his personal identity, one must first seek to define the very nature of personal identity and in doing so further attempt to discern such an identifier from other existential factors which influence the individual in his decision making, ideology, and all around ( Read more... )

Who would of though reading an acceptance letter to UC Berkeley would bring along with it such melancholic reaction?

...and no, I shall not write an essay on this quagmire of strictly emotional essence.

Note: This writing is somewhat convoluted and extremely ambiguous. This stems from the fact that these postulations are answers in response to particular prompts which, unfortunately, I cannot seem to find anymore. I hope that whomever reads this appreciates it simply for its rather broad hypothesis on the automatism and the Projection concept of ( Read more... )

Fight Club is an anarchist’s penultimate movie, the Bible of the nihilist. Sanguineously rebellious, Fincher uses the plain of film to both project and attack the very boundaries it performs in. To critique the superficiality of our contemporary society and all of its masturbatory trinkets, Fincher figured the cinematic experience was his best bet ( Read more... )