Reading Notes: Heidegger, "The Thing"

[rax]

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[lilairen]

Wow, it's like "Does a dog have the Buddha nature" only much, uh, thingier.

Metasyntactic variables for the jug.

[sovay]

"I am the philosopher your philosophy could read like. Look at me. Look at you. Look at me. I'm an atomic bomb. Look at my hand, now at yours. Now at mine. I am holding a jug. The jug is a thing. It has the thingly nature of that thing you like. I'm on a horse."

. . . I kind of want the T-shirt of that.

[lhexa]

Ooh ooh ooh! My man Cavell not only does a decent job at explaining one thread of this essay, he has a (separate) takedown of its sense of condescension toward contemporary culture. Give me a little while to transcribe those two passages.

[gaudior]

Your frame of reference is part of the apparatus making that agential cut, sir. Air is not void. Void is void. If we put you in a vacuum, you'd know the difference. I promise.

You are awesome, did you know?

Also, I enjoy my position of continuing to be around people who have read Heidegger and watching their heads explode entertainingly. Someday it will be my turn for the reading and the head-exploding, but for the moment, this is all good.

<3, --R

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