Archive for June, 2007

Quote of the Day

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

I remain profoundly puzzled by what I have said, despite the fact that I think I am correct.

Stuart Kauffman, Investigations, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000, p. xii.

Marat/Sade

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

I was lucky enough to come by the last ticket to the last performance of the Peter Weiss play Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade—or The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum [...]

Author Bio of the Day

Monday, June 18th, 2007

René ten Bos is professor of philosophy and organizational theory at Radboud University, The Netherlands. He is the author of 13 or so books and more than 100 articles which merely suggest a wisdom where there is not. Currently, he is writing a book on animals and the various ways human beings organize, domesticate and [...]

Hedonism: Two Quotes and a Death-Mask

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain, and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789.

I am alive, though turned of eighty; still in [...]

Dedication of the Day

Friday, June 15th, 2007

For K. M. K.,
still my favorite eschatologist

Thomas S. Kuhn, The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change, Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1977, p. v.

A Game

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Match the following stretches of text:A
Demurrer breathtaking ambuscade cyclorama. Bladderwort acquittal a abed buddy archimedes. Condemnate coin clothesman ban dime cursive deduce amadeus cohort. Catheter breeches agnew burma bullhead cutlet billie.

B
For example, the heavy grammar felled the frontier. An individual and overlapping ambiguity developed. Astute [...]