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On Assassin’s Creed Part 2: The Game

Posted on 02/14/2014 by kunzelman

In the previous piece that I posted about Assassin’s Creed, I wrote about the narrative of the game and how it holds up the rational, liberal subject as the most important kind of subject that can be produced by a system … Continue reading →

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On the Death of Stuart Hall

Posted on 02/10/2014 by kunzelman

Stuart Hall is gone. There isn’t much for me to say. It is hard to speak of an absence felt so clearly that it becomes present — Stuart Hall’s death is less the loss of a person and more the … Continue reading →

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On Robert Pogue Harrison’s “Forests: The Shadow of Civilization”

Posted on 01/17/2014 by kunzelman

Robert Pogue Harrison frames Forests with a quotation from 17th century philosopher Giambattista Vico: This was the order of human institutions: first the forests, after that the huts, then the village, next the cities, and finally the academies. [The New Science §239] Harrison’s … Continue reading →

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Books I Read in 2013

Posted on 01/10/2014 by kunzelman

For previous years, look here: 2012, 2011. This is a list of all the books that I read in 2013. The number is a little bit off — as you can see, I read a whole lot of BPRD in preparation … Continue reading →

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On rrrrrrrroll

Posted on 01/09/2014 by kunzelman

I have had rrrrrrrroll open in a tab on my desktop for a month or more, always trying to figure out what I should write about it. Clearly I am never going to get there. Maybe that’s the point. rrrrrrrroll is about a single … Continue reading →

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The Double Meaning of Genetic Codes

Posted on 12/27/2013 by kunzelman

Since the genetic code was deciphered in the 1960s, scientists have assumed that it was used exclusively to write information about proteins. UW scientists were stunned to discover that genomes use the genetic code to write two separate languages. One … Continue reading →

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a quibble in being

Posted on 11/18/2013 by kunzelman
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Lyotard on the human in humans

Posted on 11/07/2013 by kunzelman

What shall we call human in humans, the initial misery of their childhood, or their capacity to acquire a ‘second’ nature which, thanks to language, makes them fit to share in communal life, adult consciousness and reason? That the second … Continue reading →

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Alex Myers – VoIP #1

Posted on 10/31/2013 by kunzelman

Alex Myers talks about his work and IT IS NEAT

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Lynn Margulis on the artifice of microbiology

Posted on 10/10/2013 by kunzelman

The first thing to remember is that nearly all bacteria are multicellular in nature. when microbiologists put them in the laboratory, they want to grow them rapidly. They put them in pure culture — nature abhors a pure culture — … Continue reading →

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