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. On Data Transgression and Technofetishism  – May 17
  2. Data Transgression  – May 16
  3. Ideology and You: Partners in Freedom  – Apr 8
  4. Customized Lovers for Busy Working Professionals  – Feb 11
  5. The Constitutive Antagonism of Cyberspace  – Feb 9
  6. A Review of Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together  – Feb 6
  7. In Which Anonymous Infiltrates a Confidential Conference Call  – Feb 4
  8. There is Only Cyberspace  – Feb 3
  9. A Malfunction in the Cyborgologist Utopia  – Jan 28
  10. On the Progressive Use of Copyright  – Jan 19
  11. Facing The Google Vanguard  – Jan 18
  12. Bertolt Brecht, Super Troll  – Jan 16
  13. Anti-Capitalism and the Politics of Envy  – Jan 14
  14. An Ambitious Plan For Putting Kickstarter Out of Business  – Jan 8
  15. Notes on Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies  – Jan 7

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