Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Weekly Wikipedia Find: Metempsychosis

Philosophy is the love of wisdom or often knowledge, but it is also very much concern for the soul. At times, it is a very obvious psychomachia or "battle for the soul." This is done through psychogogia or "a leading of the soul." That's what philosophy is, but frankly it's all Greek to me.

Metempsychosis
, on the other hand, is the "transmigration of the soul." The soul aspires to freedom. The soul, like inspiration or the creative spirit, moves from one vessel to another. The soul is the text and the text is alive and produces new texts. Transmigration is intertextuality. Layers and layers, the palimpsest of the soul, like lives and lives. Thus the soul (the "text") miraculously returns to life, when it informs another.

Wikipedia by Week
Week Fifty-Two: Memory hole
Week Fifty-One: The Black Book
Week Fifty: Spear of Longinus
Week Forty-Nine: Moral panic
Week Forty-Eight: "The Move"
Week Forty-Seven: Cloaca
Week Forty-Six: Ship of fools
Week Forty-Five: Slattery Report
Week Forty-Four: Isolationism
Week Forty-Three: Foxy
Week Forty-Two: Young Woman with Unicorn
Week Forty-One: Cosmicism
Week Forty: Prisoner's dilemma
Week Thirty-Nine: Demimonde
Week Thirty-Eight: Haemophilia in European royalty
Week Thirty-Seven: Library of America
Week Thirty-Six: Honeypot
Week Thirty-Five: Glasgow smile
Week Thirty-Four: Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
Week Thirty-Three: Mono no aware
Week Thirty-Two: Royal intermarriage
Week Thirty-One: Amputee fetishism
Week Thirty: Turtles all the way down
Week Twenty-Nine: The Diogenes Club
Week Twenty-Eight: E pur si muove!
Week Twenty-Seven: Unico
Week Twenty-Six: Panopticon
Week Twenty-Five: Legendary
Week Twenty-Four: Ostern
Week Twenty-Three: Kilroy was here
Week Twenty-Two: Jack Parsons
Week Twenty-One: The Wold Newton Universe
Week Twenty: Anonymous
Week Nineteen: Monty Hall problem
Week Eighteen: Brown Booby
Week Seventeen: Dieter Dengler
Week Sixteen: New Jerusalem
Week Fifteen: Technological Singularity
Week Fourteen: Numbers Station
Week Thirteen: Culper Ring
Week Twelve: Mary Sue
Week Eleven: Byford dolphin diving bell accident
Week Ten: Deep-sea gigantism
Week Nine: Bloop
Week Eight: Rat king
Week Seven: Gustave Doré
Week Six: Tomorrow
Week Five: Borscht Belt
Week Four: Swampman
Week Three: Chinese room
Week Two: Ambrose Burnside
Week One:
Lolita fashion

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Weekly Wikipedia Find: The Diogenes Club

I have been to many a gentleman's club. I have never been a member of a gentleman's club. I knew not such a thing was possible. But it has been brought to my attention that there may in fact be multiple definitions for a gentleman's club. One has strippers, one has comfy chairs and cigars. I'm not sure the former allows members. One such of the latter, albeit a fictitious one, is The Diogenes Club. It is a place where a gentleman can go to relax, and read without distraction, and possibly a front for the British Secret Service because of an association with the co-founder, Sherlock Holmes' brother. Ostensibly, it is named for the Greek philosopher, but only ostensibly for it bears no obvious reverence for the Diogenes' known cynicism.

Wikipedia by Week
Week Twenty-Eight: E pur si muove!
Week Twenty-Seven: Unico
Week Twenty-Six: Panopticon
Week Twenty-Five: Legendary
Week Twenty-Four: Ostern
Week Twenty-Three: Kilroy was here
Week Twenty-Two: Jack Parsons
Week Twenty-One: The Wold Newton Universe
Week Twenty: Anonymous
Week Nineteen: Monty Hall problem
Week Eighteen: Brown Booby
Week Seventeen: Dieter Dengler
Week Sixteen: New Jerusalem
Week Fifteen: Technological Singularity
Week Fourteen: Numbers Station
Week Thirteen: Culper Ring
Week Twelve: Mary Sue
Week Eleven: Byford dolphin diving bell accident
Week Ten: Deep-sea gigantism
Week Nine: Bloop
Week Eight: Rat king
Week Seven: Gustave Doré
Week Six: Tomorrow
Week Five: Borscht Belt
Week Four: Swampman
Week Three: Chinese room
Week Two: Ambrose Burnside
Week One:
Lolita fashion

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Weekly Wikipedia Find: Panopticon

The panopticon is cutting edge prison technology brought to you by your contemporary, a one Mr. Jeremy Bentham, noted philosopher and prison technologist. The panopticon puts you next to godliness with its all-seeing omniscient layout. And as it is with Him, the prisoner never knows when he is being watched, as both He and warden have positioned themselves to take an observance centrally to observe potentially all at once.


Wikipedia by Week
Week Twenty-Five: Legendary
Week Twenty-Four: Ostern
Week Twenty-Three: Kilroy was here
Week Twenty-Two: Jack Parsons
Week Twenty-One: The Wold Newton Universe
Week Twenty: Anonymous
Week Nineteen: Monty Hall problem
Week Eighteen: Brown Booby
Week Seventeen: Dieter Dengler
Week Sixteen: New Jerusalem
Week Fifteen: Technological Singularity
Week Fourteen: Numbers Station
Week Thirteen: Culper Ring
Week Twelve: Mary Sue
Week Eleven: Byford dolphin diving bell accident
Week Ten: Deep-sea gigantism
Week Nine: Bloop
Week Eight: Rat king
Week Seven: Gustave Doré
Week Six: Tomorrow
Week Five: Borscht Belt
Week Four: Swampman
Week Three: Chinese room
Week Two: Ambrose Burnside
Week One:
Lolita fashion

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