Celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy causes an existential crisis by quoting a hoax author.
There is an interesting case for agile development of infrastructure, applying lessons learned from the software world to civil engineering projects. This is a useful metaphor, but there is an…
The synthesis of form Is not as some have thought A process whereby time Unwravels the intentions Of a hidden creator. But removing the teleological Source of all life Does not make the universe Cold…
Frederic Jameson, author of Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism gave a lecture at Vic yesterday about Representations of Globalisation. Jameson's project can perhaps be summed…
"Freedom of the will" - that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor…
Economics in its traditionally enshrined format is an awkward relic of a twisted history.
For many years, Object Oriented discourse has been far too constrained by language oriented thinking.
The logical positivist movement stemming from the Vienna Circle is famous for its empiricist approach to scientific rationality and a theory of meaning based around the principle of verification.…
Opinions have been flowing in local media, regarding the intersect between exploding urban situations in France and some of the serious problems in South Auckland at the moment. One thing I'm noticing…
Humans lack cohesive understanding of the cultural and environmental flow-on effects of industrial and consumerist technology.
See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself above the London cloud bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on…
Alain de Botton was in Wellington this week, promoting his new book The Architecture of Happiness, and we heard him speak the other night to a packed auditorium at Wellington Girls College, courtesy…
In the communities of the Paleolithic, archeologists often find a single dwelling, isolated from the others, at the boundary between the community and the wilds of the world beyond; this is…