necessary neologisms

sometimes it is necessary to make a new word to express an idea (see also: Thought for Food)

Friday, May 18, 2012

sub specie mundi, -scientiae, -academiae

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There is the well-known sub specie aeternitatis which roughly means "from the perspective of the eternal". But we actually li...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

homo sapiens sapiens?

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more like homo insapiens or homo somnians man the dreamer or  homo intempestivus unreasonable man (seems this is more correct in Lati...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Disengodment

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Disengod Disengoded Disengodment
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Disoccidentation, Disoccidented

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It seems that disoccidentation and disoccidented are words that could be used to describe eg the loss of faith in the West. It seems they ar...
Monday, April 23, 2012

anthropography

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Just as an individual has a biography, so to, also with all the uncertainties and ambiguities of an individual's life, there can readily...

The Consumption Cathedral

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

Devival, Devivalist, Devivalism

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Nietzsche's errand in the wilderness? No, actually more like: Nietzsche's errand into civilization, into culture, into Christianity...
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People read mostly to find or forget their lives, works, selves... I found much of myself and life reflected in Hesse's "Steppenwolf", hence the blogname. (If you have not read his work from 1927, you perhaps wont fully understand the "angle" of this blog either.)
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