Get schooled on post-structuralism, ya feel me? (thx @bortrock!) #philosophy

it is easier to comprehend the whole by walking among the trees, absorbing the gestalt … than by hovering above it:

Levinas argues that traditional Western philosophy, including the work of Husserl and Heidegger, sustains a distinction between the one and the other. In empirical systems this distinction is retained as real; in idealistic systems it is rejected as illusory. But, Levinas argues, whether real or illusory, the distinction is always made and always rests upon the presupposition that it is constituted by a consciousness which discriminates. But the very possibility of incorporating the one and the other into a single point of view compromises the radical alterity, the 'exteriority' of the other. Alterity which can be conjoined with or separated from the one by thought is not true alterity but part of what Levinas calls "the same." Radical otherness derives from a more primordial source. It can never be adequately thought for it lies beyond ontology. It is reflected in the world through the advent of other persons.

RT @semanticwill Good morning, starting: "Foundations of Modern Social Theory" #Sociology #Philosophy

Heidegger is totally relevant to experience design. Plus, you get to throw around a lot of crazy hyphenates:

This is a great find!