Needing a Translator
We’d been skyping for months, both really enjoying it, I think — my husband kept noticing how much laughter was coming from the room where the really big computer lives. I was translating Lambert’s...
Category: aesthetics
It’s concerns both perception and judgement. It’s is not logic or ethics.
The Gospel of Goodlands
Maybe we’re all searching for good news these days, whether consciously or not, but I thought this was so good on so many levels that I wanted to, well, just vote “yes,” I guess,...
I am a digital immigrant
I only heard of the term “digital immigrant” a few days ago and would like to pay my rather belated respects to Marc Prensky, who, in 2001, coined the terms “native” and “immigrant” to...
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...
What a difference a [book’s] name makes!
Publishers don’t necessarily ask authors — or translators — before deciding what title to give any particular book. Lambert Wiesing and I assumed that the title of the German book Luxus, would be the English...
This is Publishing?
I’ve spent the last few days wrestling with the internet on various levels. I was trying to get an account on Instagram for my husband, because he’s installing new work at my friend Deborah’s...