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Sep 28

Everyday Resurrections: Of Music & Marriage

Music and marriage are alike in that they both ask us to experience the same thing over and over while still finding it novel. The risk is…

Everyday Resurrections: Of Music & Marriage

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Sep 9

To See Is to Touch & Be Touched

When we gaze upon the world, we can’t help but broadcast all kinds of information as we, in turn, receive all kinds of transmissions. Our…

To See Is to Touch & Be Touched

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Aug 24

Architectures of Exchange: Discussions, Monologues, Arguments, & Conversations

Different modes of social engagement involve different architectures, different distributions of ego, will, sense, and purpose.

Architectures of Exchange: Discussions, Monologues, Arguments, & Conversations

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Aug 13

The Life Aquatic with Deleuze & Guattari

Part of a fluid (ahem) exchange between Wes Anderson’s film and the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (and a little Bergson and…

The Life Aquatic with Deleuze & Guattari

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Jul 10

Whence Our Words: Chasing Sense, the Event of Expression, & the Limits of “AI”

When we speak or write, whence the words we use? In my experience, when I’m thinking, the words come from a complex calculus of concept…

Whence Our Words: Chasing Sense, the Event of Expression, & the Limits of “AI”

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Jun 14

The Edifying Wisdom of Foghorns

I’m lying in bed the other night when, late, I heard a foghorn and was suddenly quite moved by its demeanor, its posture, its mode of…

The Edifying Wisdom of Foghorns

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Mar 14

Towards a New Environmentalism: The Economy of Judgement & the Preservation of Human Energy

Judgement takes energy. The question is: What is the return on the energetic spend your decisions demand? Saying No is usually exertion…

Towards a New Environmentalism: The Economy of Judgement & the Preservation of Human Energy

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Feb 17

The Art of Philosophy & the Delirious Pleasure of Kaleidoscopic Perception

Contrary to popular opinion, philosophers don’t offer answers to so-called “big” questions. Philosophers are artists of a strange sort…

The Art of Philosophy & the Delirious Pleasure of Kaleidoscopic Perception

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Feb 3

The Pleated Texture of Time

Time, we imagine, plods methodically along the teeth of a clock’s gears. Clocks would have us believe that the stuff of this time —…

The Pleated Texture of Time

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Jan 12

I’m Ready When I’m Ready or, The Kairos of Receptivity

I’m Ready When I’m Ready or, The Kairos of Receptivity

Daniel Coffeen

Daniel Coffeen

Former Cal Rhetoric prof. Philosophy, film, pleasure. Wrote this, too: https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Way-Things-Towards-Technology/dp/1785354140

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