http://foldingthought.net An attempt to think through thought by folding Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:47:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Disrupt v. - To break or burst asunder; to break in pieces, shatter; to separate forcibly (OED) Does technology disrupt the material body? Through what mechanisms can this be investigated. There are two distinct elements at play, one is the grounding of the material body, that body that exists ... http://foldingthought.net/2008/08/13/a-few-names-for-disruption/ Technology presents a disruption of the body. In order to develop this, the body firstly needs to be defined, before the affects of technology can be explored. As the body is a site of contested meaning, the relationship of the body to meaning needs to be developed. Metaphor can present ... http://foldingthought.net/2008/08/04/disruption_alpha/ The body is a contested site. Any attempt to develop meaning takes one in a multitude of direction. The positioning of the subject presents the first problem. Where is the subject located, how can I define what is meant by the body? The use of this sign, the sign of ... http://foldingthought.net/2008/07/30/the-barrier/ How can we place our bodies? Their depth of experience, the dimension of meaning they invoke, what does it mean for a body to be deep? To be present is one aspect, here, there, at a specific point of reference, demarcated in four dimensions. Yet this body, while appearing as ... http://foldingthought.net/2008/07/28/drilling-deeper/ Each of us has a body. That body has a sense of meaning, created by us, through our senses and culture. That body exists within space, the space of the world. How then can we think of the body as positioned within the world? What does the world mean to ... http://foldingthought.net/2008/07/22/that-space-between/ Thinking of the position of being, one can only pause to ponder the level that it is situated in. Divine revelation comes from a certain angle—the oblique. The subject then is left to wrestle with the problem of both their own being and that of the objects that envelop there ... http://foldingthought.net/2008/07/21/three-steps-off-monday/ The page rests in front of me, with unread books and no clear starting point. Coursework that has moved somewhere left field, a mind that is waiting to engage with theory, yet no defined starting point. Grappling with specific states, I find myself hesitant. The plan brought forward, just a ... http://foldingthought.net/2008/07/08/the-blank-page/ Well the semester has drawn to a close. There has been movement and administrative arrangements (no internet). A range of paid employment tasks (namely marking) and the wrapping up of my own engagement with Nietzsche. Hence, this space has been quiet. Helped in part by a rather unexplained and problematic ... http://foldingthought.net/2008/07/04/moving-marking-making/ The semester is drawing to a close. As such, the level of work has ramped up to an astronomical scale. A number of policy papers to mark, a heap. This is in conjunction with attempting to be carving out a critical position in relation to Nietzsche. However, the time taken ... http://foldingthought.net/2008/06/06/marking-inbetween-policy-and-theory/ Three aspects that are taken as the whole. The life element projected in text. The lingering question of what a Nietzschian Public Policy would look like. Jumping from text, the attempt to sketch out a plan that has meaning, that has an argument that centred upon the metaphors of Nietzsche ... http://foldingthought.net/2008/05/18/read-write-judge/