This image was received from a friend. The quality of this photograph is obvious. I have never been to Yellowstone. This photo transports me emotionally to that landscape, its loneliness, to the emergence of life amidst the rocky crag. To my mind the image is titled, “One Tree Hill.” An image of a universe…….
The year was 1965. I was a member of an Eagle Scout Troop sponsored by Monsanto. Our meetings typically were in the lab where our scoutmaster worked at the Monsanto Research Triangle facility. I’ve never forgotten the evening. I remember the whine of the power supply and capacitors powering up. Then we heard the…
Another Independence Day Parade on Main Street of Wheaton Illinois is a memory. These are a few of the photos that remind me of how diverse and unique is the American experience. The course of historical events has brought us to this point in time and place. So, join me curbside to view the…
….it gets worse with Christian philosophy. the positing of immanence remains pure philosophical instituting, but at the same time it is tolerated only in very small doses; it is strictly controlled and enframed by the demands of an emanative and, above all, creative transcendence. Putting their work and sometimes their lives at risk, all…
The non-philosophical is perhaps closer to the heart of philosophy than philosophy itself, and this means that philosophy cannot be content to be understood only philosophically or conceptually, but is addressed essentially to non-philosophers as well. Both the creation of concepts and the instituting of a plane of immanence are required, like two wings…
Yesterday I spent the afternoon sorting through boxes of archived files, –class notes from college and grad school, articles on business that I had saved for a second reading that never happened, and family related materials. It was an archeological dig into the past of selves that became the person that I now am….
Aesthetics is the science dedicated to the study of the contact between the derma (the skin, the sensitive surface of our body-mind) and different chemical, physical, electromagnetic, electronic, and informational flows. ….the universe is a continuum of diverse and interrelated entities in bodily contact with each other. It is both an organic and inorganic…
Social solidarity is not an ethical or ideological value: It depends on the continuousness of the relation between individuals in time and in space. The material foundation of solidarity is the perception of the continuation of the body in the body, and the immediate understanding of my interest and your interest. —Franco “Bifo” Berardi…
Enterprises are no longer linked to a territory and the work process is no longer based on a community of workers, living together in a factory day after day, but instead takes the form of an ever-changing recombination of time fragments connected in the global network. Cognitive workers do not meet in the same…
The financial class that dominates the contemporary scene has neither attachments to territory nor to material production, because its power and wealth are founded on the total abstraction of a digitally multiplied finance. This digital-financial hyper-abstraction is liquidating both the living body of the planet and the social body. —-Franco “Bifo” Berardi excerpt The…
