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Communication and Differential Ontology
As I’ve been writing on communication, I’ve covered Kierkegaard’s theory fairly thoroughly: communication can be primarily informational, appropriate for an academic lecture, or it can be capabilizing, as is the case with ethical and religious communication, both of which are designed not only to convey mere information but also to convey a know-how, a capability,…
Turning Into Steam
History is a heat. It is the heat of accumulated information and accumulated complexity. As our culture progresses, we find that we gather more and more information and that we slowly start to move almost from a fluid to a vaporous state, as we approach the ultimate complexity of a social boiling point. I believe…
The Doubleness of the Event: Before/Otherwise
“Thus there is no event except in the plural, the event is always at least two. In other words, the event is less the absolute occurrence of a birth on the background of negativity (nothingness or doxa) than a becoming in which the before and the after spring forth at the same time, on either…
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Jacob N. Given 