Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Free Thought-Lunch For Free Thinkers To abstract is to construct a plane upon which otherwise different and unrelated matters may be brought into many possible relations. McKenzie Wark's Hacker's Manifesto

To Chez Repartee Imagination is the highest form of research. Albert Einstein

Gamechanger Markers The play concept as such is of a higher order than seriousness, for seriousness seeks to exclude play, whereas play can very well include seriousness. Johan Huizinga,  Homo Ludens

Logos Superceding Doxa We do not lack communication. On the contrary, we have too much of it. We lack creation. Gilles Deleuze

I heard Voices. I Listened.

All Thoughts are Toys We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew? Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

Geniuses and Jesters This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human utterances. As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves. Michael Joseph Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays