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The Painfully Limited Ways We Talk About TV (when every show is a freakin’ philosophy of life!)

People sure love tv. I love it, too. But the ways we talk about it are so banal. We either reductively judge (the ubiquitous thumbs up or…

3d ago

The Painfully Limited Ways We Talk About TV (when every show is a freakin’ philosophy of life!)

3d ago

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Nietzsche, Socrates, Foucault, Larry David: On the Philosophy of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

While every tv show proffers a philosophy, Curb Your Enthusiasm is explicitly philosophical. It deploys a certain vision of how the…

3d ago

Nietzsche, Socrates, Foucault, Larry David: On the Philosophy of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

3d ago

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What Is Intuition?(with reference to understanding a philosophy)

Teachers tend to extract ideas and concepts from the event of their utterance — to wit, textbooks. So when we leave school, said teachers…

Dec 21, 2024

What Is Intuition?(with reference to understanding a philosophy)

Dec 21, 2024

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Memory Without Meaning (Amid the Elongation of Time)

Memory is not a database: it’s where the persistence, configuration, and dissipation of events take place. Memory, then, is not the…

Nov 20, 2024

Memory Without Meaning (Amid the Elongation of Time)

Nov 20, 2024

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Expression is Cosmogenesis or, Most of What We Say is Not Expressive

Usually when we speak, it’s a move within an established protocol, our words pre-determined by the social contracts of family, romance…

Nov 11, 2024

Expression is Cosmogenesis or, Most of What We Say is Not Expressive

Nov 11, 2024

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The Art of Reading (and, as a footnote, the limits of AI)

Despite the insistence of our educational system, to read is not to decipher (nor is it to judge, though that’s for another essay). It is…

Nov 4, 2024

The Art of Reading (and, as a footnote, the limits of AI)

Nov 4, 2024

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Mind Your Circuits or, Towards a Physics of Ecological Being

Life, alas, is premised on exchange, on give and take: life is literally made of circuits, inside and out (if such a distinction can even…

Sep 5, 2024

Mind Your Circuits or, Towards a Physics of Ecological Being

Sep 5, 2024

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The Delectable Delight of Vertigo When You Realize There’s No There There (with Reference to…

Everything is Cooked

Aug 10, 2024

The Delectable Delight of Vertigo When You Realize There’s No There There (with Reference to…

Aug 10, 2024

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The Way of the Image

To state the obvious, an image is not the same thing as what’s in the image. I can’t find shade from a tree in a film; I can’t talk to the…

Jun 16, 2024

The Way of the Image

Jun 16, 2024

Take Your Time

If you look around, wherever you are, you’ll see so many different distributions of time, different speeds, different rhythms. Some people…

May 29, 2024

Take Your Time

May 29, 2024

Daniel Coffeen

Daniel Coffeen

Former Cal Rhetoric prof. Philosophy, film, pleasure. Wrote this, too: https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Way-Things-Towards-Technology/dp/1785354140

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