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	<description>Ragged thoughts on continental ontology, film, and literature.</description>
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		<title>Symposium [Plato]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview
The Symposium is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a group of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposium or a wine drinking gathering at the house of the tragedian Agathon at Athens.
Background
The Symposium is classified as part of a transitional phase between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/symposium</link>
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		<title>Propositional Calculus for Computer Programmers: Background and First Part</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is the inaugural element in what I plan to be an ongoing project into attempting to develop a framework for translating philosophical propositional calculus (PC) into terms that computer programmers can easily understand.
Personally, I find the confluence of factors that motivate this project incredibly interesting; but of course that&#8217;s because they&#8217;re largely about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/propositional-calculus-for-computer-programmers-background-and-first-part</link>
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		<title>Sophist [Plato]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview
A Stranger, a student of Parmenides, will set out to define the Sophist. Upon reaching the conclusion that the Sophist is one who sells the appearance of wisdom, he will announce that in order to prove this conclusion, an investigation into the nature of non-Being will be required. This will be approached  by an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/sophist</link>
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		<title>Phaedo [Plato]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview
Socrates, on his deathbed, lays down four arguments for the immortality of the soul to his group of disciples and friends.
The Setup
Phaedo recounts the story of Socrates&#8217; death. Socrates&#8217; death took place so long after his trial because of an Athenian holy season, in which the city was not allowed to be &#8220;polluted by executions.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/phaedo</link>
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		<title>Parmenides [Plato]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview
Critical interpretation of this dialogue varies more widely than with any other. The general structure works like this:

Introduction / Socrates&#8217; Speech
Problems with the Theory of the Forms (4, generally understood to be scathing)
How to Save the Forms: The (8) Deductions.

There are a lot of notes internally here. The gist of it is that Socrates is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/parmenides</link>
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		<title>Meno [Plato]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview
Meno wants to know how virtue is learned (by teaching, practice).
Context

Platonic: The Meno is an early-Middle Platonic dialogue. It&#8217;s question, how - if at all - virtue is learned, is also addressed in Protagoras, with opposite results.

Contemporary: The Meno is also an important historical precedent with regard to the question of the Value of Knowledge. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/meno</link>
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		<title>Understanding the New Format</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now you are going to get a confessional, because all of a sudden everything here is going to change:
After some time working for an interesting little startup company (a story which you should be pleased to be spared), I have been preparing this year to return to my studies in Philosophy, this time to earn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/understanding-the-new-format</link>
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		<title>See the Old Lady Decently</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Out they all set, then, on this exciting journey, full of vigour and overwhelmingly inspired by their sense of purpose, dedicated to one object only. Between thirty million and five hundred million of them, if one is to believe the educated guesses.
But only one penetrated the pellucid zone to reach the nucleus.
Why only one, since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/see-the-old-lady-decently</link>
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		<title>Hristina Tasheva</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have there two orders of order: sequential and jussive. (JD: Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, 1)
Hristina Tasheva worked for years cleaning houses in Amsterdam.


&#34;Tasheva has collected hundreds of notes used to communicate with the people whose houses she cleaned, with messages such as: &#8216;Hi Hristina, how are you? Do you please want to clean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/hristina-tasheva</link>
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		<title>Martin Klimas: The Double Paralysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
As children, we have all suspected it: perhaps we are all, moving strangely beneath the sky, victims of a trap, a joke whose secret we will one day know. This reaction is certainly infantile and we turn away from it, living in a world imposed on us as though it were &#8220;perfectly natural,&#8221; quite different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/martin-klimas-the-double-paralysis</link>
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		<title>Monstrosity, Information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God is a shout in the street! - Stephen Dedalus
Jacques-Alain Miller is right here: &#8220;[Google] is the cataract: the ostentatious white of the page blackens suddenly, the void is overturned by an onslaught, succinctness becomes logorrhea.&#8221; And wrong here: 

What is sure is that it is stupid. If the responses proliferate on the screen, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/monstrosity-information</link>
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		<title>Strauss&#8217; Unthought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leo Strauss was first brought to my attention by Carl Mitcham back in 2004, by way of Harvey Mansfield&#8217;s insidious A Student&#8217;s Guide to Political Philosophy. Since this time, one of two things has happened: One, a lot of people had Strauss brought to their attention, or two, I noticed a lot more people paying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/strauss-unthought</link>
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		<title>Shawn Barber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some paintings by Shawn Barber, young painter and tattoo artist.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/shawn-barber</link>
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		<title>Fragments for Blogging Philosophy (1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fragments for blogging philosophy is a series of fragments that addresses the fact that perhaps the point arises, somewhere, where an Apology is required for a blogging philosophy. This is part one.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/fragments-for-blogging-philosophy-1</link>
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		<title>We are all a little ambivalent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continental Philosophy, several days ago, posted this video, for which I have taken pause several times:





The interviewer asks Cixous, &#8220;So particularity and universality are not &#8230; opposed to each other?&#8221; to which she replies, &#8220;oh, no.&#8221;
Oh, certainly no. On the one hand: Universality is &#8220;universally accessible&#8221; and particularity is &#8220;particularly located&#8221;. Nothing - which is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/we-are-all-a-little-ambivalent</link>
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		<title>Auntie Vulgar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am having an interesting conversation &#8220;about Marxism&#8221; with my friend Auntie Vulgar, and I wanted to post it here for fun:
1. AV

The only two things of which we can be certain.
Praxis is essentially just one of those smarty-pants words for the process of doing, action, practice- practical application. It is something of an opposite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/auntie-vulgar</link>
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		<title>The Animal That Therefore I Am (with: clothing)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[0. &#8220;The animal is there before me, there close to me, there in front of me- I who am (following) after it. And also, therefore, since it is before me, it is behind me. It surrounds me. And from the vantage of this being-there-before-me it can allow itself to be looked at, no doubt, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/the-animal-that-therefore-i-am</link>
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		<title>Our lady of the flowers (I am too busy for this site right now)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to talk about semantically overloaded French novels, let me suggest Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet:

He suddenly gets an erection from the feeling that he has penetrated Divine in a dream. In his dream he penetrates the Divine of the dream of Divine, and he possesses her, as it were, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/our-lady-of-the-flowers-i-am-too-busy-for-this-site-right-now</link>
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		<title>Dream of Rukhin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two quick notes:
1. Last night, I went to sleep and had a dream that I was sitting with Evgeny Rukhin in his Moscow apartment in the 1970s and he was telling me that he was the future of painting. There was a huge roaring fire and he was breaking antique chairs and feeding the flames [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/dream-of-rukhin</link>
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		<title>Nobody Knows, or, Patience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hirokazu Koreeda&#8217;s Dare mo shiranai, released in the US as Nobody Knows is, as many of its critics have noted, long, and slow.  Ella Taylor at LA Weekly writes that it, &#8220;unfolds with such leisurely, terrible beauty, it takes a while to realize that what we are witnessing is the children&#8217;s long slide into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/nobody-knows</link>
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		<title>No, /you&#8217;re/ dumb.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then, I really enjoy picking up something new by an analytic philosopher, and this week I have opened the new book Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett. Dennett is often a thoughtful and interesting person, and although I don&#8217;t always understand why he chooses his certain domain of knowledge to pursue, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/no-youre-dumb</link>
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		<title>Visualizing power.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was browsing Netlex today, and I came across the work of Mark Lombardi, which is paper drawings visualizing the networks of relationships between all the players in, for example, the The BCCI Affair.



Now if this sounds familiar to denizens of the network art community, it is no surprise - Josh On&#8217;s &#8220;They Rule&#8221; has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/visualizing-power</link>
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		<title>Prospero-tron; writing speech</title>
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When Prospero&#8230;becomes annoyed when his daughter&#8217;s attention wanders, she placates him by saying, &#8220;Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.&#8221; What an extraordinary idea: to tell a story where the words themselves would cure deafness. This is&#8230;the logic of &#8220;incantation&#8221;. As a magician, Prospero has such a power.
So [do] programmers.

So I read a book about cochlear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/prospero-tron</link>
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		<title>Zero-sum piracy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Ask me how I became a pirate&#8230;
I recently ran into something that happened about a year ago (this not being my area of interest, I am a little late with it): Namely, a usenet post:
Information from microsoft.public.windowsmedia.drm
Posted by Satoru Koshiba (JP):
&#8220;As far as I survey at this time some popular DRM Protected Video
Providers&#8217;s contents [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/zero-sum-piracy</link>
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		<title>The Bird People in China.</title>
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Yes!: Ch&#251;goku no ch&#244;jin.

No doubt, you will have at least heard of the Three Gorges Dam project. Initially conceived by Sun Yat-Sen in 1919, it is now scheduled for completion in 2009. If built (and it is already under construction), it will be the largest hydroelectric project the world has ever seen - 60 miles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sorglosenacht.net/posts/the-bird-people-in-china</link>
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