Maybe I come off as more serious than I intend to.  

Rough draft of my thesis done! Woo!

(incredibly crude) Summary of thesis:
1. My left hand can't give my right hand money.
2. I can't have a private language because it's like giving myself money
3. I can only give someone else money.
(1,2,3) 4. I can only give someone else language
5. I can only give someone else language if I am such that I can't give ( Read more... )

World is a weird word.

Really, look at it.

World

orld

rld

What kind of letter group is THAT? 'rld'

World

Whorled 

Why does every account of others seem to end up showing only the Other, rather than this particular other coexisting in concretion with me?  I am tired of Other with a big 'O', why not speak of another, or of others? It's always got to be a structure or a condition and the irony is that it seems the question is always asked out of concern for some ( Read more... )

Walking on nothing can be either incredibly easy or impossibly difficult. We do it all the time, and it is at its easiest when the nothing is at its most insubstantial: when we are unaware of it as nothing (when it is nothing in the strictest sense). It is only when we realize what we are walking on that, much like Wile E. Coyote, we get a sense of ( Read more... )

First post. Deleted my old account because I didn't use it, was out of touch with my friends anyway. Figured they didn't update ( Read more... )