Monday, April 23, 2012

anthropography

Just as an individual has a biography, so to, also with all the uncertainties and ambiguities of an individual's life, there can readily be conceived the anthropography of mankind, considered as a (in)coherent story. The idea is more inclusive than eg the German Geistesgeschichte or "the history of mankind", or "the spiritual history of mankind", "the history of ideas", etc.

It is a concept which would, as a goal, as a psychology, surpass the divisions developed during history or in academia, of eg literature, religion, philosophy, psychology, history, science, anthropology, art...the humanities, the sciences, the arts, technology....
It would be an attitude, a quest, a perspective to look at the human being -- gnothi seauton -- individually and collectively, sub specie aeternitatis, and not just sub specie scientiae, sub specie academiae.

The Consumption Cathedral

Malls throughout the world.
(The term came from writing a FB note mainly directly to a prominent Moscow sociologist.)

Devival, Devivalist, Devivalism

Nietzsche's errand in the wilderness?
No, actually more like: Nietzsche's errand into civilization, into culture, into Christianity.

evangelism vs cacangelism

As there is the evangel, and evangelist, the gospel...
So one could say that Nietzsche was an example of a cacangelist, or the opposite of gospel

Monday, April 9, 2012

Nice!

If lurking beneath each use of "nice" -- eg nice guy, nice time, have a nice day -- we learn that the etymology is...
nice
late 13c., "foolish, stupid, senseless," from O.Fr. nice "silly,foolish," from L. nescius "ignorant," lit. "not-knowing," from ne-"not" (see un-) + stem of scire "to know."

Well, it could change our understanding of hearing and using it.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

ex ... lux?

ex deo lux?
ex materia lux?
ex nihil lux?