Author Archives
-
Stanislaw Lem: Revolution in the Mind
In Summa Technologiae, Stanislaw Lem of “Solaris” fame addresses some of the most pressing questions connected to the shape human life has acquired in the modern world because of technology, whereby the ontology of previous Weltanschauungen has been replaced in… Read More ›
-
Guernica vs. “Gone with the wind”
In the wonderful interview below (now in “Fractured Times“, Ch. 20: ‘The Avant-Garde fails’) Eric Hobsbawm argues that 1) 20th century painters retreated into areas of conceptual art and distanced themselves from representation because cinema (and before that photography) conquered their… Read More ›
-
History of Western Philosophy (Russell) : an Index
Notes about History of Western Philosophy Role of Mathematics as a model of eternal truth, against the empirical world: 52-56, 171, 785-786 (dethrone it) Intellettualized Theology of Europe as descending from Math, p56 First ideas about evolution: Anaximander, p47… Read More ›
-
After a long time
Diverse and multifarious transitions – I don’t know why it happens: all in a sudden, unexpected change of Weltanschauung, a mutation of my brain. Only our imagination is the barrier, “Infinite in all directions”. The posts will be dedicated to… Read More ›
rtraba 