http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/ 'On the Genealogy of Morals']]> en-us thoughtfactory@internode.on.net Tue, 13 May 2008 00:11:26 +0930 http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/05/new-post-79.html new post... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/05/new-post-78.html new post... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/05/the-void-create.html The void created by the death of God had, for Nietzsche, left human being still confronted by the incredible horror of life, by a profound suffering, just as it had his Greek and Christian ancestors. In Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future Nietzsche says: The... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/05/new-post-77.html I've just stumbled into the Open Humanities Press -- a collection of open access journals in the humanities. What a wonderful idea in contrast to the Griffith Review being hidden behind a subscription wall despite the public subsidy from the Australia Council. As the folks at Cosmos and History say:... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/05/technology.html This is a classic example of old industrial technology: Bernd and Hilla Becher, Styrofoam plant near Cologne, Germany, 1997 The new technology is the internet and BitTorrent files---that gives us the capacity to “hyperdistribute” --- to send a single copy of a programme to millions of people around the world... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/05/as-is-well-know.html As is well known analytic philosophy's narrative holds that it began in a reaction against "Hegelian thought," specifically, the neo-Hegelianism of late 19th century Britain. Russell and Moore overthrew the doctrines of internal relations, of the falsehood of the partial and the truth only of the whole, and of the... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/04/the-pastoral.html The pastoral... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/04/new-post-76.html Mark Bahnisch at Larvatus Prodeo has been trying to facilitate a broader conversation in the blogosphere about creative Australia around the 2020 Summit. He supports a call for fundamental rethinking of the purposes and aims of arts and cultural policy argued for by Ben Eltham at the Centre for Policy... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/04/new-post-75.html I'm off to New Zealand for 2 weeks holiday. You can follow the progress on junk for code. In the meantime we have David Harvey on desire and memory: My favourite line from Balzac is “hope is a memory that desires” and that was how I wrote Spaces of Hope,... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/04/new-post-74.html In his post Mob Rules (The Law of Fives ) Charles Pesce draws an interesting picture of a network by describing how a Meraki Mini works. This was a closing keynote at the Web Directions South 2007 conference that was on in Sydney in 2007. Pesce says: Four months ago,... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/04/new-post-73.html Stephen Buckle has an op-ed in The Australian that addresses the sad situation of the humanities in Australia---on the road to humanities faculties fit only for a banana republic. He says that the former: Howard government made no secret of its preference for subjects of a narrowly utilitarian nature and,... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/04/new-post-72.html I watched Sally Potter's film version of Virgina Wool's Orlando on DVD last night. Potter's film alternates genders and identities against shifting historical-cultural backgrounds as it follows a young noble's journey from the Renaissance to the modern era, first as a male and then as a female. From memory Woolf's... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/04/new-post-71.html The Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) has proposed that Australian creative industries are comprised of the following six industry segments: 1. Music and Performing Arts 2. Film, Television and Radio 3. Advertising and Marketing 4. Software Development and Interactive Content 5. Writing, Publishing and Print Media,... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/04/new-post-70.html Axel Brun's Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage starts from the position that the term ‘production’ is no longer accurate to describe the creative, collaborative, and ad hoc engagement with content for which user-led spaces such as the Wikipedia act as examples. He argues that this... http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/2008/03/gerhard-richter.html Gerhard Richter always had a particular interest in landscape, even though he most well known for his photo-based works. This painting indicates how painting now draws from and references many other media; painting now embraces photography (instead of seeing it as a threat); the use of appropriation in painting is...