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The Question Concerning Technology: Heidegger on Tech

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Goats, Thoughtstylings
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...recting us, again, to consider our enframing. The example of technology he uses in the essay, a communion chalice, is pregnant with meaning, forcing us to consider the object’s telos, it’s end purpose. Or maybe, as in the case of the communion chalice its poetic “uselessness”. Considering a technology’s telos, say Mark Zuckerberg’s social media, for instance, might lead us to conclude that it’s more about capital accumulation via harvesting our at...

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My Morning Routine: Tarrying With the Negative

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Thoughtstylings
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...g via the very object that wounded him. Žižek, building on Freud and Lacan uses this as a metaphor for the ways in which we use language and narrative to deal with the struggles of life by reenacting pain and pleasure cycles in order to heal. In the final chapters of the book Žižek moves on to collective forms of ideology via a deep dive into Lacan. Of our current system Žižek says, The elementary feature of capitalism consists of its inherent str...

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Pepper’s Ghost

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Design
...eB4kup3oKY0?si=Lp8HuYnto3B3_gH1 Looking for an easy Halloween display that uses stuff you might have at hand? In this video Joshua Ellingson shows you how to create the 19th century Pepper’s ghost effect using an iPad, some plastic film and a glass container. YouTube is full of pre-made Pepper’s ghost videos so you don’t even need to shoot anything. If you want to go deeper there’s a free version of a video DJ type program called VDMX that you can...

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Gardenfork’s DIY Rocket Stove

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Rocket Stove, Videos, Water and Power
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...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6dGHC_Sqok “East Coast Eric” over at Gardenfork did a variation on our five gallon bucket rocket stove. Eric’s version uses a much easier to find plastic bucket and it seems to work without melting. He’s also promising a sequel to this video featuring a unique egg-in-a-hole grilled cheese sandwich!...

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The Walls Have Eyes

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Design
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...r adapters etc all equipped with hidden cameras. Could their be legitimate uses for these devices? Maybe the sight of a baby monitor offends your aesthetic sensibilities and you’d prefer it discretely hidden in a smoke alarm? Possible but unlikely. We all know but don’t want to think about these inexpensive electronics in the hands of Airbnb voyeurs. While our ancestors once scanned the savanna in the hopes of bagging a gazelle for dinner we moder...

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