Monthly Archives: July 2011

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. My rating: 4 of 5 stars A classic vision of a post-apocalyptic world in which the lacunary remains of our dead culture’s knowledge have been piously hoarded and conserved by monks … Continue reading →

Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin My rating: 4 of 5 stars GIFTS is a novel about learning what your gifts really are and about using them in your own way, and not as society or your significant Other wishes. … Continue reading →

Voices by Ursula K. Le Guin My rating: 4 of 5 stars VOICES is about the power of books and of reading,against the barbarians who think that books are accursed objects. Books are associated with a gentle and open polytheism,whereas … Continue reading →

Diffusion des cours deMichel Onfray depuis hier: “Du 25 JUILLET au 26 AOUT 2011 à 19h sur France Culture. Comme chaque été, France Culture vous propose les conférences de Michel Onfray données au Théâtre d’Hérouville st Clair (Comédie de Caen, CDN … Continue reading →

Un des noms pour la constellation théorique qui m’intéresse me vient d’Andrew Pickering, le philosophe et sociologue des sciences, qui parle de l’élaboration par l’intelligence collective d’une “ontologie du devenir”. J’en ai parlé dans plusieurs entrées de ce blog, par … Continue reading →

When I first read Charles Spinosa’s blog post on the reception of ALL THINGS SHINING: http://allthingsshiningbook.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/ats-reception/ I was quite impressed: it is clear, well-presented, confident, didactic, univocal. However, I was disturbed by its one-sidedness, a defect that is not present … Continue reading →

Dreyfus and Kelly, in “All Things Shining”, give several examples of  an ethical problem: What is the appropriate response to the surging up of a pulse of physis such as a great moment in a football match, a speech by … Continue reading →

I was thinking about Dreyfus & Kelly’s discussion of David Foster Wallace and their analysis of his “nihilism” in “All Things Shining” and trying to formulate what I found wrong with their presentation. Then I came across this post by … Continue reading →