Category: art

knowing yourself

Who do you think you are?

Lambert Wiesing, the only practicing phenomenologist I know, just published a book about the perception of self (Ich für mich). It’s a difficult argument, as you might expect.  It turns out that proper philosophers have simply never...

Zooming life away

Apparently Zoom burnout has become a recognised condition.  It’s a bit like what the virus is doing to us all, flattening, numbing, draining, insolating…stupefying?   The British actress/comedienne, Diane Morgan got it exactly right, I think....

Site Writing

Over the past few weeks I’ve been trying to write posts and tweets.  I hate it, but don’t see any way around it if you would like at least a few readers. The writing itself...

Weather Stations

Yesterday, I set out to add a weather report to a friend’s website.  She is serious about gardening, and her garden is in a seriously windy location.  In short weather — especially wind — is always...