A BLOG of various  PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS &  SPECULATIONS

“The owl of Minerva flies at dusk.” – Hegel

Preface

The time has arrived when it is imperative that a few words by way of introduction should be written to give an explanation of this blog’s Scope and Object.

The reader will find in these pages a repository of chronologically-arranged personal writings on topics at turns varied and repetitious, circulating around certain themes: the Internet and the problematics of New Media; Capitalism; Anti-Capitalism; Psychoanalysis; Film; the works of Žižek, Lacan and others; etc.

A small measure of thought and effort was applied to the presentation of this material. Through design, this blogs wonders if, at the end of history, the future can only be thought via the past; and reminds both author and reader to pause for reflection and thought, refusing the exigencies of contemporary life that implore us to act “pragmatically,” without thinking.

— Mr. J.W.R. Teacup, Esq.

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Table of  Contents

NEOTERICA

  1. Customized Lovers for Busy Working Professionals  – Feb 11
  2. The Constitutive Antagonism of Cyberspace  – Feb 9
  3. A Review of Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together  – Feb 6
  4. In Which Anonymous Infiltrates a Confidential Conference Call  – Feb 4
  5. There is Only Cyberspace  – Feb 3
  6. A Malfunction in the Cyborgologist Utopia  – Jan 28
  7. On the Progressive Use of Copyright  – Jan 19
  8. Facing The Google Vanguard  – Jan 18
  9. Bertolt Brecht, Super Troll  – Jan 16
  10. Anti-Capitalism and the Politics of Envy  – Jan 14
  11. An Ambitious Plan For Putting Kickstarter Out of Business  – Jan 8
  12. Notes on Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies  – Jan 7
  13. The Peer Production Illusion Part III - A Society For & Against The Market  – Jan 2
  14. The Peer Production Illusion Part II - The Neoliberal Ideology of P2P  – Dec 20
  15. The Peer Production Illusion Part I - The Myth of Open Source Software  – Dec 19

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