Specifically, an ancestor-simulation run by post-humans.

"The Stewart Home Society exists to promote the works of Stewart Home and document the many aspects of his work. Also the Stewart Home Society will make preparations for Stewart Home's death on which it will step into the role of defending the great man's

Some nice MeFi linkage on Satre's centenary.

Piercing the Spectacle: A Situationist Critique of Computer Games

A great post, with great comments, on Shakers.

It's been a long time since I discovered a new magazine and instantly subscribed.

"I want to deal solely with the relationship between text and author and with the manner in which the text points to this "figure" that, at least in appearance, is outside it and antecedes it."

Edward Said was a great thinker. And it was music that made him tick. Daniel Barenbolm remembers his playing partner

"Atheism and minority faiths such as Baha'i and Zoroastrianism should be taught alongside Christianity in schools, the first national guidelines on religious education say." I should think so too.

"No thinker in the last 100 years had a greater impact than he did on people in more fields and different disciplines."

The 1973--1974 Dictionary of the History of Ideas is online. Some highlights.

Mr. Derrida was known as the father of deconstruction, the method of inquiry that asserted that all writing was full of confusion and contradiction, and that the author's intent could not overcome the inherent contradictions of language itself, robbing te

Le philosophe français le plus commenté et le plus traduit au monde ces dernières années, notamment aux Etats-Unis, Jacques Derrida, mort dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi à l'âge de 74 ans, était célèbre pour son concept de "déconstruction".

World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president's office said Saturday. He was 74.

Derrida, radical doyen of deconstructionist thought, dies at 74

French philosopher Derrida dies at 74

L'un des philosophe français les plus connus à l'étranger, notamment aux Etats-Unis, Jacques Derrida est mort dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi à l'âge de 74 ans, semble-t-il des suites d'un cancer du pancréas.

Mostly pretty basic, some decent essays