Without really knowing why, my reading these days consists primarily of philosophy-as-literature instead of straight-up fiction. Thinking about this it sounds kind of stupid, since all literature can in some sense be deemed philosophy. But still, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which I have been sneaking off to read every chance I’ve gotten [...]
Also tagged Cocaine, Culture, Literature, Tarantino, TVI am writing this after 8 hours of standing up and doing nothing, followed by 45 minutes of thrashing around on the squash court, getting humiliated by a curly Italian 3 years younger than me. So my nerves and reflexes are understandably shaken. What I need now is a beer and a book, and tonight [...]
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A Tribute to Richard Rorty
by Stuart Noble
Fuzzy Fallibilist we are not tolerant!
Open minded ancestors avoid explicit algorithms.
Great scientists seize solidarity.
Dew, blow up the optimism of imagined breakthroughs in reality.
What say the brand new Fuzzies?
Is anything really there?
Philosophers moan about matter.
Who on earth would enlighten our vocabulary?
The new rhetoric of poetry battling through the [...]