Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
Homoiconicity isn’t the point
I’ve never really understood what “homoiconic” is supposed to mean. People often say something like “the syntax uses one of the language’s basic data structures.” That’s a category error: syntax is...
The Dialectic of Sex by Shulasmith Firestone 1970
Opening chapter of Shulamith Firestone's influential Dialectic of Sex
The Gutenberg Parenthesis
A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEPROSE AWARDS MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES FINALIST 2024The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fatefu…
Bicameral mentality
Bicameral mentality is a psychological hypothesis proposed by American psychologist Julian Jaynes. It suggests that early modern humans experienced thoughts and emotions not as originating within themselves but as commands from external "gods". According to the theory, the human mind once functioned with a division in which one part generated verbal instructions while a second part obeyed, forming a "bicameral mind". The eventual collapse of this mental structure is proposed to have led to the development of self-reflective consciousness in humans.
Pratyabhijñā Nondual Śaiva Philosophy, Peirce and Semiotics | Dr. David Peter Lawrence
Visual semiotics
Studies of meaning evolve from semiotics, a philosophical approach that seeks to interpret messages in terms of signs and patterns of symbolism. Contemporary semiotics consists of two branches originating contemporaneously in late 19th century France and the United States. Originating in literary and linguistic contexts, one branch (referred to as semiology) originated from the work of Swiss linguist Ferdinand Saussure. The second branch expands on the work of American pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
musings of a sad, seraphic slut - heart and soul ♡
a peek inside the heart and brain of soul
Talking about a ‘schism’ is ahistorical
In two recent conversations with very thoughtful journalists, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot of noise…
The Daily Planet #124: The Anatomical Compiler - The Daily Planet
Symbolic Manipulation: an Anthropological Perspective
The aim of this article is to elucidate the anthropological conditions of possibility for computing. I will first show how symbolic manipulation is constitutive of hominization. Secondly, I will ex…
"It’s just an arbitrary architectural decision that we have been frog-boiled into believing is immutable for the last 20 years." – @devingaffney.com /cc @atproto.com @atmosphere.community mercury.com/blog/devin-gaffney-graze-soci…
How Graze Social’s Devin Gaffney wants to build a better internet
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