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Play of Light and Silence

Julian WolfreysDeconstruction · Derrida Enlightenment allows us to see where we are, but not where we may be going; illumination reveals to us that we are in the dark. The parallelism becomes silent: even with illumination we may not know. … Continue reading

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Ontological Undeterminations

Is she in the dream or outside the dream singing? The hunter thought; after a while his thoughts changed to dreams, and his mother was singing to him. The Animal FamilyRandall Jarrell And so for day 306402.05.2015

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Towards Radical Analysis

Catherine BelseyCritical Practice1980 social formation vs society — as terms page 5 Ideology, in Althusser’s use of the term, works in conjunction with political practice and economic practice to constitute the social formation, a formulation which promotes a more complex … Continue reading

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How Do We Learn?

Attributed to Confucius By three ways do we learn: first by reflection, which is noblest; second by imitation, which is the easiest; third by experience, which is the bitterest. And so for day 306230.04.2015

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Hermeneutics of Participatory Action

To understand is to practice: Understanding is necessarily practical; its significance is only realised when it is put into practice or performed (like a play or a game). Morad FarhadpourThought/translationRendered by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gouldhttps://hcommons-staging.org/deposits/objects/hc:32722/datastreams/CONTENT/content And so for … Continue reading

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Two Steps

The companion … In the course of a walk, we usually find out something about our companion, and this is true even when we travel alone. The season … Daily walking, in all weathers, in every season, becomes a sort … Continue reading

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Attunement

Bessel Van der KolkThe Body Keeps the Score Being in tune with other members of our species […] is enormously rewarding. What begins as the attuned play of mother an child continues with the rhythmicity of a good basketball game, … Continue reading

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On the Passagenwerk

Transcribed from Susan Buck-Morss in One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin (1993) https://ubu.com/film/benjamin_fragments.html at 53:30 The border police in Spain would not let them pass. And it was that night that Benjamin took an overdose of morphine and committed … Continue reading

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Acting, Imagining, Symbolizing

a snippet from Lev Manovich on pedagogical theory and interface design: Piaget > Bruner > Kay Continue reading

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Of Types of Tokens

A set of quotations from Shermin Voshmgir about NFTs and other tokens. Continue reading

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