I'm exploring why Generation X failed to get free, and how the concept of "authenticity" was turned into a sort of un-freedom.
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Peirce's notion of "Hypostatic Abstraction" was formulated to reflect the "Hypostatic Union" of the history of Christian theology. Both relational schemas reflect the necessary dependence that oneness has on multiplicity and that multiplicity has on oneness, which can also be formulated as the dependence of self on other(ness), or presence on absence. The immediate, given oneness of Peircean "Firstness" flows into the relational, cause-and-effect, self-as-other twoness of "Secondness" generat...
29 Jul 2026
Cosmic Stew: Spacey Disco Music
When Ron Hardy said that House Music was Disco’s revenge, this is what he meant: Cosmic Stew The voice of Q, Q: At the sound of the interplanetary voice of Q, you will be shot straight into hyperspace, which is strange because Michael Forte and Bruce Weeden wrote this for their “South Philly” record label as a novelty track response to the popularity of 1982’s E.T. Magic Midnight, Beam Me Up: Next, you will be beamed up from 1982 Philly and beamed back down in the 2010 Brook...
27 Jul 2026
Does AI Need Help Falling Asleep?
Does AI dream? If dreams are just the unnecessary detritus of the day, then probably not since dreams then would serve no real purpose in information processing. However, if dreams are a kind of information processing, as some sleep researchers now claim, then they might be a useful mode of scenario rehearsal that AI could employ to reduce uncertainty as any prediction machine looking to maximize its efficacy would. Maybe, AI's thinking is most like dreaming because of this type of "thinking'...
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