“Language Noths” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license Inspired by a Twitter conversion, I added a couple of phases from Heidegger to an AI art generator and this is the result. These are the phrases: Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing? Language remains the master of man.
“Queen Margaret Bridge over the Kelvin” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license Aletheia was a Greek Goddess. The word is often translated into English as truth – and Aletheia’s Roman counterpart is called Veritas. However, as Heidegger and others say, truth is really insufficient as a translation. Truth is a noun in Latin, but in Greek aletheia is an activity. This is not just an exercise in semantics. Heidegger understood the importance of language: it […]
“King Robert of Sicily” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license Does a sculptor chip awayTo uncover the image within?Or is structure createdAs marble is shaped?The age old question:Does Science discover Truth or create it?Is beauty innate, or in the eye of the beholder?(And would a rose by any other name really smell as sweet?)
“mimesis” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license I think I’ve always been a bricoleur – it’s a family trait. But it’s not without danger. When I read this page by Austin Kleon, I remembered happy times messing around with my brother. We were big fans of seeing how things worked. Watches, clocks – anything that had moving parts. We’d prise them apart and put them back together again. Yet, somehow, there was always a small […]
“Fortune Teller” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license In my earlier post I suggested that Heidegger thought of understanding as being an uncovering of meaning, and I further suggested that this is one of the things that we bricoleurs do when we mix and remix. In this post I want to continue with my interpretation of bricolage through a Heideggerian lens. In his discussion of constructionism, Seymour Papert contrasts two type of problem solving – […]
I’ve been thinking about Heidegger recently. I know that some people find him problematic because of his links with the Nazi party, but I think that it is possible to bracket this off (phenomenological reference intended) and talk about his philosophy without reference to that side of his thought. In any case, I can’t unlearn the influence that thought has had on my own philosophy, and it would be academically wrong for me to try to ignore it. While recovering […]
