Huenemanniac

Getting distracted by ideas

24.05

Automata of our own making
15.05

On the mistaken view that there is something especially sciency about the so-called scientific method
11.05

London, 1641
09.05

Early modern European automata
05.05

The early modern craze for titles
29.04

Idle musings on historical periods
19.04

Comenius’s primer for learning Latin
15.04

Invented languages on Utah Public Radio
13.04

The Fermi Paradox, Mass Effect, and Transhumanism
08.04

“As One” – a chamber opera
06.04

For the love of words
28.03

William James, “The Social Value of the College-Bed” (1907)
25.03

Some views from the shed
24.03

Comenius, The Way of Light: “to plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth”
16.03

On Birthdays
13.03

Encyclopédie
11.03

Comenius, The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart
28.02

On killing virtual dogs
25.02

How You Play the Game
23.02

Descartes’s new operating system: the “iThink”
16.02

Overcoming Babel
29.01

On opera
24.01

From cynicism to spheres: a review of Peter Sloterdijk’s philosophy
19.01

What to do with my dead body
08.01

Sloterdijk, Hume, and a healthy skepticism