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Reading the Way of Things

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…

1d ago

Memory Without Meaning (Amid the Elongation of Time)

1d ago

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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

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

Nov 11

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Reading the Way of Things

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

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

Nov 4

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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

Mind Your Circuits or, Towards a Physics of Ecological Being

Sep 5

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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

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

Aug 10

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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

The Way of the Image

Jun 16

Daniel Coffeen

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

Take Your Time

May 29

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Of Mourning Ritual

Like many of my ilk, I’ve bucked tradition and its rituals. I’m a free spirited intellectual, after all! A philosopher, no less, who’s…

Apr 4

Of Mourning Ritual

Apr 4

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Derrida, Bitcoin, & the Play of Value (or Cryptocurrency as the Deconstruction of Money)

The reigning economic system relies on the assumption of its own naturalness to deflect any possible critique. “This is just the way things…

Mar 25

Derrida, Bitcoin, & the Play of Value (or Cryptocurrency as the Deconstruction of Money)

Mar 25

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Reading the Way of Things

Towards an Ecology of Being

There are not first things and then interactions with other things. All things are intertwined with others from the get go—not later, not…

Mar 25

Towards an Ecology of Being

Mar 25

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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