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Against Nature by Lorraine Daston
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders.Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America ...Show more
All and Nothing - A Digital Apocalpyse by Martin Burckhardt; Dirk Höfer; Erik Butler
Category: Reference | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
Why 1 = presence and 0 = absence and the digital world formula is x = xn an exploration of meaning in a universe of infinite replication.In the beginning was the Zero, and the Zero was with God, and God was the One.--All and NothingIn 1854, the British mathematician George Boole presented the idea of a ...Show more
German Philosophy - A Dialogue by Alain Badiou; Jean-Luc Nancy; Jan Völker; Richard Lambert
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
Two eminent French philosophers discuss German philosophy--including the legacy of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Fichte, Marx, and Heidegger--from a French perspective. In this book, Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, the two most important living philosophers in France, discuss German philosophy from a ...Show more
In the Swarm: Digital Prospects by Byung-Chul Han (Professor, Universitat der Kunste Berlin)
Category: Reference | Series: Untimely Meditations
The shitstorm represents an authentic phenomenon of digital communication. -- from In the SwarmDigital communication and social media have taken over our lives. In this contrarian reflection on digitized life, Byung-Chul Han counters the cheerleaders for Twitter revolutions and Facebook activism by arg ...Show more
Inconsistencies by Marcus Steinweg; Amanda DeMarco (Translator)
Category: Reference | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
Meditations, aphorisms, maxims, notes, and comments construct a philosophy of thought congruent with the inconsistency of our reality. Those who continue to think never return to their point of departure.--Inconsistencies These 130 short texts--aphoristic, interlacing, and sometimes perplexing--target ...Show more
On Hitler's Mein Kampf - The Poetics of National Socialism by Albrecht Koschorke; Erik Butler
Category: History | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
An examination of the narrative strategies employed in the most dangerous book of the twentieth century and a reflection on totalitarian literature. Hitler's Mein Kampf was banned in Germany for almost seventy years, kept from being reprinted by the accidental copyright holder, the Bavarian Ministry of ...Show more
Portrait of the Manager as a Young Author - On Storytelling, Business, and Literature by Philipp Schönthaler; Amanda DeMarco (Translator)
Category: Business Finance Management | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
What happens to the relationship between business and literature when storytelling becomes a privileged form of communication for organizations. Corporations love a good story. Microsoft employs a chief storyteller, who heads a team of twenty-five corporate storytellers. IBM, Coca-Cola, and the World B ...Show more
Positive Nihilism: My Confrontation with Heidegger by Hartmut Lange
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Untimely Meditations
There is a beyond of reason and unreason. It is the human psyche. -- Positive Nihilism Like many German intellectuals, Hartmut Lange has long grappled with Heidegger. Positive Nihilism is the result of a lifetime of reading Being and Time and offers a series of reflections that are aphoristic, poetic, a ...Show more
Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese by Philippa (TRN) Byung-Chul; Hurd Han
Category: Reference | Series: Untimely Meditations
Tracing the thread of "decreation" in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original. Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means "fake," originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Sams ...Show more
The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Untimely Meditations
Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love re ...Show more
The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas by Roberto Simanowski; Jefferson Chase
Category: Science | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
Provocative takes on cyberbullshit, smartphone zombies, instant gratification, the traffic school of the information highway, and other philosophical concerns of the Internet age.In The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas, Roberto Simanowski wonders if we are on the brink of a society that views ...Show more
The Radical Fool of Capitalism: On Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon, and the Auto-Icon by Christian Welzbacher
Category: Business | Series: Untimely Meditations
A fresh interpretation of Jeremy Bentham, finding that his "radical foolery" embodied a social ethics that was revolutionary for its time.Jeremy Bentham (1748--1832) is best remembered today as the founder of utilitarianism (a philosophy infamously abused by the Victorians) and the conceiver of the Pano ...Show more