Monthly Archives: January 2010
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My Opponent Sells Body Parts…
Leave a commentJanuary 30, 2010 by Peter Gratton
This is easily one of the better campaign commercials I’ve seen. (Though it leads me to wonder what one would …
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Should We be Sending Messages to the Universe?
Leave a commentJanuary 30, 2010 by Peter Gratton
Sure, you think sending out Beatles music to interstellar space is just showing off our peaceful side, but some think …
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They Make Comments…
Leave a commentJanuary 30, 2010 by Peter Gratton
I ask a question of Paul Ennis and he writes in with an answer: At least one problem with the …
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I am holding onto the SR name until May…
Leave a commentJanuary 30, 2010 by Peter Gratton
Some people give robust reasons for using certain nominations for movements such as what has been dubbed “speculative realism,” from …
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Heidegger and the “Danger” of the Ancestral
2January 30, 2010 by Peter Gratton
First caveat into this post: I breezed quickly through Paul Ennis’s recent paper on speculative realism. Paul is more convinced …
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Don’t Burn the Puppies…
Leave a commentJanuary 30, 2010 by Peter Gratton
Yglesias has a remarkably short but helpful rendition of how Congress works. Or, I guess, doesn’t work.
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On another matter…
Leave a commentJanuary 28, 2010 by Peter Gratton
Pictured right is the last eunuch in China. I discussed him a few months ago (no, I’m not providing the …
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Non-Human Value (Part II)
1January 28, 2010 by Peter Gratton
I just noticed that I didn’t click “read on” for the rest of Larval Subject’s post. He writes: If ontologically …
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Non-Human Value
1January 28, 2010 by Peter Gratton
Larval Subjects is up with a post tonight on non-human values. Putting to the side the question of meaning, which …
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Toscano on Sloterdijk
Leave a commentJanuary 27, 2010 by Peter Gratton
I slogged through a bunch of Sloterdijk this past year (the Spheres volumes are some 3000 pages, so I’m not …
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