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Bare Ruined Choirs
(I wrote a bit about this earlier in the year, in a post with ‘electric sheep‘ in the title.) More on Kurzweil. I was thinking about standards and web standards. I just finished css/htmling a page for a site and I thought about how basic my ‘look’ is (you can see it here, it’s for [...]
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Menin
“…And they should separate themselves from it instead of identifying with it.”–this, I think, is one of the essential aspects of the dialogue form. It is the characters who speak. So to revisit my angry former post…I hold that Plato must be met “on the stage”. This can only inform our understanding of the dialogues/plays. [...]
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The Puppetry of Plato
This is a preliminary post, written after reading the first 5 or so pages of Havelock. It is written in a bit of anger, so one might think carefully before posting it. However, as we are experimenting and analysing the media with which we communicate, I’ll take this opportunity to post with little caution, because [...]
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watchmen
I really liked “Watchmen”. I’m a big fan of the book, but wouldn’t call myself an expert or anything. The main thing I noticed that I felt was important was that the film referenced many films, and continually poked fun at itself. That decision made a lot of sense, because the comic book was very [...]
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outer banks poem
I wrote this while we were making a film down on the outer banks, NC last month. Hawk winds whip and scream through our screened long wallsAnd try to rip our door from its old, whiteWood. They pry it loose so that other squallsCan squeeze by and slam it closed again tight. Across the street [...]
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