Monthly Archives: November 2007

Ario on Dwelling: Thoughts on "Dwelling Place"

Ario’s poetic and thoughtful blogpost1. The “home and displacement” conflation stems from living in a land without borders. We are told that we journey, but have “ceased to seek.” Only our imaginations occasionally cause restlessness – a real look at the sea in her restlessness will confirm our identity and show that in our means, …

November 18, 2007 – 5:18 am | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Ambition (Or, A Brief Comment On Heidegger’s "Building Dwelling Thinking")

It is empty and cold here. On the ground are wires, atop a table are papers, in front of me is a screen. These are things that are nothing – when I die, all of this will be disposed of promptly, and new occupants will bring in new objects. Heidegger discusses a farmhouse in “Building …

November 16, 2007 – 12:29 am | By ashok | Posted in philosophy | Tagged | Comments (1)

Coffeehouse

Once they were places where talk of rebellion led to action – and in some parts of the world, they perform that function still – but now where I am coffeehouses are just garish and loud and filled with a few self-important people most times. I was at once people-watching and reading and probably puffed …

November 14, 2007 – 2:20 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (4)

College Football

For those of you economically inclined: Is every resource devoted to college football a direct attack on resources I can make use of? (i.e. tenure-track positions I can apply for, books in the library, conferences and grants and journals)Or does the money pumped into college football find its way into academic spending somehow? Would there …

November 12, 2007 – 8:21 pm | By ashok | Posted in academia | Tagged | Comments (0)

Guests

I’m dreading this visit by a friend of my father’s. He’s had interesting things to say before – he has discussed things the Navy was interested in commissioning/purchasing – but it is hard to get relevant information from him in a logical manner. He gives out decent thoughts sporadically and it is hard to tell …

November 9, 2007 – 3:43 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (4)

If This Blog Becomes Popular, Will It Become a Cult?

Hmm: In sum, on this particular point, pre-conscious or dialectical processes of mentation may be contrasted with formal logic, etc., as a “domain” of process conceptions of whole processes in which the particularity, including the particular conception introduced to consciousness, is a determined feature of a determining holistic process. – Lyndon LaRouche, quoted in “Publish …

November 8, 2007 – 12:59 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging, personal, politics | Tagged | Comments (1)

Love Towards Each Other: On Emily Dickinson’s "I should not dare to leave my friend"

“I should not dare to leave my friend…” Emily Dickinson I should not dare to leave my friend, Because – because if he should die While I was gone – and I – too late – Should reach the Heart that wanted me – If I should disappoint the eyes That hunted – hunted so …

November 7, 2007 – 9:10 am | By ashok | Posted in dickinson, poetry | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

The Many Ways Of Keeping Up and Participating With This Blog

If you use a feed reader, you can subscribe to this blog’s feed. If you don’t know what a feed reader is, it’s actually a lot of fun – its a way of creating your own newspaper out of any media that offers feeds. Google Reader is probably the best feed reader and gives a …

November 6, 2007 – 3:27 pm | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Over at the Forums…

Amanda and I consider closely Erin Elizabeth’s poems on “The Chainsaw Bears” Lady Strange echoes a love Reddit seems to have for Putin; Gracchi wonders about a Russian candidate named Vladimir Bukovsky Chuck Palahniuk’s “Haunted” is commented on Eamonn recommends Habermas and Russell for reading People have been asking about the state of the forums, …

November 6, 2007 – 10:07 am | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Autumn’s Seduction

The leaves are yellow mostly, with green artfully dabbled in all sorts of shades in an air filled with plumage. Everything seems so alive when the wind blows softly and the sun illuminates the colors from behind the leaves.On some trees there are reds and browns but they have not consumed how alive everything feels.And …

November 5, 2007 – 4:19 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Tagged | Comments (0)