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Desire is the Real?
I’ve been engaged in a slow and sporadic conversation about schizoanalysis with Reid at Planomenology. Reid has also been exploring Brassier’s realism, about which I am woefully underenlig… more →
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Desire is the Real?
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john doyle wrote 4 days ago: I’ve been engaged in a slow and sporadic conversation about schizoanalysis with Reid at Planom … more →
Fictional Ontologies: Musil
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john doyle wrote 1 week ago: Two days ago I posted an excerpt from an early section of J.G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibiti … more →
Mobile Home
john doyle wrote 3 weeks ago: In southern Italy I have visited a church inside of which stands a house entire, ancient and squat, … more →
Not-Inferno
john doyle wrote 3 weeks ago: [Kublai Khan) said: "It is all useless, if the last landing place can only be the infernal city, and … more →
The Reality of Blogging Identities
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john doyle wrote 2 months ago: Recently there’s been some discussion, here and elsewhere, about whether fictional characters … more →
Some Thoughts on Phase Space
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john doyle wrote 2 months ago: Hey, it’s just a blog, right? Citing my favorite source, Wikipedia, phase space is “a space in … more →
Some Thoughts on Difference
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john doyle wrote 2 months ago: Just thinking out loud… “Difference” implies “different-from.” Somethi … more →
Object-Reality Interdependence
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john doyle wrote 2 months ago: Developmental systems theory emphasizes the interrelationships of organisms and environments. Genes … more →
Hammer in the Head
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john doyle wrote 4 months ago: An artifact is an object that’s been intentionally designed and built by humans. From a purely … more →
Ontology of Epistemology?
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john doyle wrote 4 months ago: As far as I know, only creationists, panpyschists and solipsists content that outside reality is con … more →
Does the Song Want to be Sung?
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john doyle wrote 4 months ago: In our extended discussion on the previous post about memes, kvond and I focused quite a bit of atte … more →
Memes as Abstract Artifacts
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john doyle wrote 4 months ago: While I was enjoying a cup of tea at Larval Subjects recently, our host gracefully steered the conve … more →
Virtual and Fictional Properties
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john doyle wrote 4 months ago: This morning Larval Subjects put up a post about emergence, using for illustrative purposes a decept … more →
Fictional Objects
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john doyle wrote 4 months ago: Discussions of fiction typically begin with whether or not we must postulate fictional objects, with … more →
Becoming Visionary: Toward Praxis
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john doyle wrote 4 months ago: Having recently read most of Peretz’s Becoming Visionary, I wonder how I might move his insigh … more →
Sole and Sacred Fruit
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john doyle wrote 4 months ago: Yesterday Dr. Zamalek again repeated k-punk’s injunction to “surround yourself with people who have … more →
I Am, I Do
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john doyle wrote 5 months ago: So anyhow, my explorations of the hot blog topic of trolls and grey vampires, of sneers and accusati … more →
Becoming Visionary, Chapter 1
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john doyle wrote 5 months ago: Per Dejan’s suggestion I secured through inter-library loan a copy of Eyal Peretz’s 2008 … more →
The Portality Notebook Transcripts Conclude
john doyle wrote 5 months ago: [This should end the transcriptions of my old Portality Notebooks.] (11 Nov 02) Praxes of the Portal … more →
