Mark Moore
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Mark Moore
And justice? Is justice possible under capitalism? Not according to three renown metaphysicians, to steal a quote from an ex-everything of mine:
(1) “There can never be justice on stolen land” (Krs-One)
(2) “All Property is Theft” (Proudhon)
(3) “Every man has a property in his own person” (Locke)
Therefore, the very existence of human beings and... See more
(1) “There can never be justice on stolen land” (Krs-One)
(2) “All Property is Theft” (Proudhon)
(3) “Every man has a property in his own person” (Locke)
Therefore, the very existence of human beings and... See more
2024 A+ Zettels
as we begin to react in depth to the challenges of the global village, we all become reactionaries.
America’s New Post-Literate Epistemology Michael Cuenco 4.17.2021
America’s New Post-Literate Epistemology Michael Cuenco 4.17.2021
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the characters I created were separate from the person playing them. That’s not literature—that’s theater. This is the mode we all live in now. It’s part of how we get a text-based society that’s not quite literate.
Imaginative play and the Internet. Katherine Dee 11.15.2023
Imaginative play and the Internet. Katherine Dee 11.15.2023
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[simplicity/complexity/clarity]
usually the way I say it is Simplicity complexity and then clarity so in other words if we think about just the way things happen you take simple things and simple things over time evolve into complex things and you end up with these arms races that look like they're going to go on forever because what is an end of an... See more
usually the way I say it is Simplicity complexity and then clarity so in other words if we think about just the way things happen you take simple things and simple things over time evolve into complex things and you end up with these arms races that look like they're going to go on forever because what is an end of an... See more
2024 A+ Zettels
Now and again, the place becomes dense with darkening, then a cloud might open and a single ray of light will drench a gathering of stones to turn them into oracular presence.
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
visual image to be made of this
lēthē is also at the root of a Greek word for “truth,” alethia—literally, un-forgetting (or un-concealing, the sense of which Heidegger made much). The truth of things lies in our not-forgetting or our remembering.
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our English word remember comes to us from Latin via Old French. The roots being re- (again) and memorari (to be mindful), thus “to be
... See moreintelligence is not defined by what a system stores or how it computes, but by what it can access and stage into use under constraints of cost, availability, and time. Storage is cheap. Computation is cheaper still. The real bottleneck—the hard part—is memory access. And where the cost is, intelligence is. ... What remains expensive—financially,... See more
Capacities
I wonder if it has to do with the salutary effects of getting to choose the occasions for suspending disbelief. I have always been fascinated by the 19th century origins of advertising in marketing patent medicines — which in some respects could be understood as open-label placebos. The ads were deceptions, but they were also occasions for the... See more
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Imagining the future is just another form of memory. It’s a kind of forward-looking nostalgia. “The history of utopias is the history of rear-view mirrors. Every utopia is a picture of the preceding age.”3 If your memory gets scrambled, your ability to envision a coherent future is severely hampered. When the past feels slippery or shifty, you lose... See more