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Note on Data

Fri, Feb 23, 2024 - 600 Words

tags #philosophy A note on some thoughts around ‘data’. Inspired, in the first instance, by this discussion on hacker news. TODO Summarise some key points from the Hickey/Kay discussion The starting point of the discussion is the questioning of the assumption that ‘data is a good idea’ from Kay Hickey challenges the assumption that data has any innate value at all.
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#hermeneutics

Sat, Aug 26, 2023 - 100 Words

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Hermeneutic Understanding

Fri, Aug 25, 2023 - 1300 Words

tags #philosophy, #hermeneutics In a certain sense, the measure of hermeneutics is understanding. Through careful interpretation, we begin to grasp the meaning of the text. Through careful listening and active engagement, I begin to understand, more deeply, what you are communicating to me.
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Chaos

Tue, Apr 25, 2023 - 200 Words

tags #books Some alternative formulations of Chaos, taken from Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick The complicated, aperiodic, attracting orbits of certain (usually low-dimensional) dynamical systems. Philip Holmes A kind of order without periodicity.
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History of Being

Wed, Feb 22, 2023 - 900 Words

tags #philosophy An (in)famous concept from the hermeneutic philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Difficult to explain/simplify, but I will try my best here. I think a good starting point for thinking about this idea is David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech for the graduates of Kenyon College.
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Appropriation

Thu, Jan 5, 2023 - 800 Words

tags #philosophy I am rooted, but I flow. ― Virginia Woolf The concept of appropriation is one of the key ideas within hermeneutic philosophy. It arises from the idea that we are embedded (thrown) into a world.
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Alfred North Whitehead

Sun, Nov 13, 2022 - 100 Words

tags #philosophy years 1861 - 1947 notable works Process and Reality, Adventures of Ideas Originally a mathematician, Whitehead’s primary contribution to contemporary thought is through his Process Philosophy and Process Theology.
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Concrescence

Sun, Nov 13, 2022 - 700 Words

tags #philosophy Gilbert Simondon Process Philosophy The term ‘concrescence’ was coined by Alfred North Whitehead and figures strongly in his systematic account of process. Roughly, it means the coming together of multiples into a unity.
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Process Philosophy

Sun, Nov 13, 2022 - 100 Words

TODO
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Phenomenological Method

Sat, Oct 8, 2022 - 700 Words

tags #philosophy A difficult term to explain in a brief note, but I’ll try anyway. Phenomenology is a philosophical approach that aims to move away from the subject-object division that pervaded modern philosophy and science prior to the 20th century.
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Bernard Stiegler

Mon, Aug 8, 2022 - 100 Words

tags #philosophy years 1952-2020 notable works Technics and Time An influential philosopher of technology.
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Stiegler - Technological Infancy

Mon, Aug 8, 2022 - 500 Words

tags #technology I putting this note here more as a reminder to go an do some actual research on this topic. This is not in any way an authoritative note.
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#environmentalism

Wed, Jun 22, 2022 - 100 Words

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#technology

Wed, Jun 22, 2022 - 100 Words

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Gilbert Simondon

Wed, Jun 22, 2022 - 100 Words

tags #philosophy #technology #biology An influential philosopher of technology. noteable works On the Mode of Existenct of Technical Objects
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Permacomputing

Wed, Jun 22, 2022 - 300 Words

tags #technology #biology Permacomputing is an offshoot of permaculture . There is already a dedicated wiki to the topic that is definitely worth checking out. One angle to permacomputing which hasn’t been explored yet is perhaps in relation to the work of Gilbert Simondon.
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Permaculture

Wed, Jun 22, 2022 - 100 Words

tags #biology #environmentalism :TODO: Fill in this section Permaculture refers to a way of thinking about land dwelling and the management of living systems, whose end goal is sustainability and ecological flourishing.
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Principles of Permaculture

Wed, Jun 22, 2022 - 100 Words

tags #biology #environmentalism Observe & Interact (the forces present on a site) Catch & Store Energy Obtain a Yield (promotes self-reliance - choose location that provides greater/diverse yield over ornamental plant, for example)
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Gemini

Thu, Jun 16, 2022 - 300 Words

Gemini is an internet protocol designed by solderpunk in 2019. It is a lightweight protocol with a small number of response codes. It uses TLS to secure connections. One of the motivations in designing Gemini was to make it simple enough that someone could sit down and “write a server for it over the course of a weekend”.
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Utopia

Thu, Jun 16, 2022 - 100 Words

An idealised place that is nowhere. The name is a pun - ’eu’ is the Greek prefeix meaning ‘good’ (eudemonia - the good life, eucalyptus - the good covering, euthenasia - the good death, etc.
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#biology

Wed, Jun 15, 2022 - 100 Words

The study of life.
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Autopoiesis

Wed, Jun 15, 2022 - 400 Words

tags #philosophy #biology A highly influential idea first introduced by systems biologists Fancisco J Varela and Humberto Maturana. In some ways the idea is simple, but in others it is complicated (arguably, over-complicated to the point of mysticism).
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Liberal Eugenics

Wed, Jun 15, 2022 - 200 Words

tags #philosophy As espoused in From Chance to Choice, liberal eugenics is a system which seeks to apply John Rawls’ Theory of Justice to the field of genetics. In Rawls’ system, to simplify it a bit, the fairest system is one in which shares are distributed as evenly as possible.
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Species Ethics

Wed, Jun 15, 2022 - 400 Words

tags #philosophy A concept used by Jurgen Habermas in his book The Future of Human Nature. The book is largely a response to the model of liberal eugenics found in From Chance to Choice.
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The Hermeneutic Circle

Wed, Jun 15, 2022 - 700 Words

tags #philosophy, #hermeneutics A theory that claims, broadly, that understanding is the product of iterative interactions between wholes and parts. What constitutes a “whole” and a “part” is flexible. In the context of a narrative text, for example, the whole may be the overarching idea or world that is trying to be communicated.
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The Hermeneutic Fractal

Wed, Jun 15, 2022 - 400 Words

tags #philosophy, #hermeneutics There has been some debate over the image of the “circle” when discussing the hermeneutic circle. A circle is an established geometric shape with highly regular features like a centre-point and so on.
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The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness

Tue, Jun 7, 2022 - 800 Words

tags #philosophy The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness is one of those philosophical ideas that has stayed with me ever since someone first told me about it. These are some notes about it.
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Box 3

Sat, Jun 4, 2022 - 200 Words

The Box 3 portion of this website is my attempt at creating an online directory of personal knowledge notes. It comprises one section of my personal notes management system. It is inspired by “Digital Gardens” like evergreen notes and Nikita’s Knowledge Wiki, but on a much smaller scale.
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Org Agenda

Sat, Jun 4, 2022 - 600 Words

As with many features of org/emacs, it can be a bit intimidating at first. However, if you spend about 30 minutes digging into it, it becomes much simpler. Or, at least, it can be as simple or as complicated as you need it to be.
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Org Roam

Sat, Jun 4, 2022 - 400 Words

Org roam is a plain-text personal knowledge management system. My past org roam settings [2022-06-04 Sat] These settings are designed to work with Doom Emacs. General Config (use-package! org-roam :defer t :init (setq org-roam-v2-ack t) (setq org-roam-graph-viewer "/usr/bin/qutebrowser") :config (org-roam-setup)) (setq org-roam-completion-everywhere t) Capture templates: (after!
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Personal Notes Management System

Sat, Jun 4, 2022 - 600 Words

Updated [2023-03-28 Tue] I now use denote for managing my notes. Much of what I wrote below still applied, except now I use a much ‘flatter’ hierarchy with all my notes (including journal entries and box3 reference notes) in a single directory.
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#philosophy

Thu, Jun 2, 2022 - 100 Words

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#capitalism

Wed, Jun 1, 2022 - 100 Words

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#books

Mon, May 30, 2022 - 100 Words

Clippings from things I’ve read.
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Kafka: toward a minor literature

Mon, Mar 14, 2022 - 600 Words

:END: tags #books #philosophy Clippings p. 17 The second characteristic of minor literatures is that everything in them is po- litical. In major literatures, in contrast, the individual concern (familial, marital, and so on) joins with other no less individual concerns, the social milieu serving as a mere environment or a background; this is so much the case that none of these Oedipal intrigues are specifically indispensable or absolutely necessary but all become as one in a large space.
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The Tragedy of the Worker

Thu, Feb 10, 2022 - 400 Words

tags #books #Capitalism #philosophy A book by the Salvage Collective. Found/available on gemini: gemini://beyondneolithic.life/salvage_collective/tragedy_of_the_worker/index.gmi Part 1 - M-C-M and the Death Cult As Andreas Malm has fiercely and beautifully argued, capitalism did not settle for fossil fuels as a solution to energy scarcity.
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Semantic Line Breaks

Mon, Nov 22, 2021 - 300 Words

Semantic line breaks are a technique for structuring plain text files. They can be useful in cases where you are writing in a markup language like Markdown, html, AsciiDoc, Gemtext, and so on.
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Getting Things Done

Tue, Oct 19, 2021 - 500 Words

Some notes for trying to use the GTD workflow: Getting things done: 1. Capture 2. Clarify You need to review and process everything you’ve collected in your inboxes. This means you have to decide where things belong in the Getting Things Done system.
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Deleuze's Timed Logic

Sat, Aug 28, 2021 - 400 Words

tags books #philosophy A series of posts by James Williams. First part here. This reduction of the real to the possible is exactly what Deleuze seeks to avoid, because he wants the potential of radical novelty in every part of his system.
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Shell Commands

Sun, Aug 8, 2021 - 600 Words

:TODO: Clean up! Setting default shell on linux: edit /etc/passwd/ chsh popd and pushd can use to create a directory ‘stack’ pushd pushes the new directory to the stack, e.g., pushd ~/directory/another/andanother/ then popd takes you back to the previous directory in the stack.
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Zettelkasten Method

Sat, Jun 19, 2021 - 900 Words

Three key elements The Zettelkasten method is a way of taking notes that emphasises the following three things: Hypertextuality Atomicity Individuality Starting from the bottom, notes should be individual and personal.
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Chesterton's Fence

Mon, Jan 1, 0001 - 700 Words

There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.
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Folgezettel

Mon, Jan 1, 0001 - 500 Words

Overview A folgezettel is a ’next note’. It is part of the Zettelkasten Method notetaking system. The name of this technique wasn’t coined by Niklas Luhmann but the technique derives from his method.
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