Harry Schwartz Eats the World » old dead white guys http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world Figuratively. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:17:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Bloomsday http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/bloomsday http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/bloomsday#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:12:24 +0000 Harry http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/?p=1571 james-joyce

Happy Bloomsday to all the hardcore James Joyce fans out there!

]]> http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/bloomsday/feed 0 Plato’s Man Cave http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/platos-man-cave http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/platos-man-cave#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 20:35:06 +0000 Harry http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/?p=1524 platos-man-cave

Found on Wonder-Tonic.

]]> http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/platos-man-cave/feed 0 Socrates and Glaucon on the HSN http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/socrates-and-glaucon-on-the-hsn http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/socrates-and-glaucon-on-the-hsn#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 01:19:15 +0000 Harry http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/?p=1514

GLAUCON: Then yes, I agree that one could add such technology to an ordinary mop. But would it still be an ordinary mop, Socrates?

SOCRATES: Very astute, Glaucon. It would not. For convenience’s sake, let’s call it the EZ-Klean Mop™. Now answer me this: would the EZ-Klean Mop ™, given that it has the Dirt-Fighting Technology™ I’ve just described, be able to more effectively rid spaces of dirt or plague?

GLAUCON: Yes.

SOCRATES: So you agree that it can clean better than an ordinary mop?

GLAUCON: I believe so.

Another fine article from McSweeney’s: Socrates and Glaucon on the Home Shopping Network

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Apparently David Bowie based the theme of Life on Mars? on the second movement of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. My head exploded.

Compare for yourself:

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One of my very favorite movies is now available on Hulu!

Go learn to protect your precious bodily fluids, watch Peter Sellers play every character, and enjoy a nasty bit of commentary on Wernher von Braun.

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Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside.

The not-quite-classic Python sketch is being re-enacted. Enjoy, Londoners!

]]> http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/philosophers-football/feed 0 The Nietzsche Family Circus http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/the-nietzsche-family-circus http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/the-nietzsche-family-circus#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:06:33 +0000 Harry http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/?p=1422 Nietzsche Family Circus

Move over Garfield Minus Garfield, I’ve got a new favorite surreal mash-up webcomic thing. The Nietzsche Family Circus matches random Family Circus panels with quotes from the German philosopher, often generating surprisingly appropriate juxtapositions. So by reading them, we’re applying the random quote to the random picture and still ascribing meaning to the result. Minds are awesome.

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I’m pretty sure that if you like this blog you’d like a graphic novel biography of Bertrand Russell, which is exactly what Logicomix is.

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I would call Denis Diderot’s essay d’Alembert’s Dream a study in 18th-century cognitive science.

Also it’s my birthday! I’m older now.

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