An Un-canny Ontology

This blog is an attempt to work through my ideas of the un-canny and how they fit into ontology.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

The Uncanniest of the Uncanny

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Over at Larval Subjects , Levi has created a well-developed and nuanced ontology of objects he has affectionately called, Onticology...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

The Death Set

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We could easily argue that a closed set is only closed by way of an other. Or to put this another way, we must have something which does not...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Ontology of the Living Dead

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Admittedly my first formulation of the zombie was slightly vague, and given the responses (both positive and negative) over at Larval Subjec...
Monday, August 17, 2009

Zombies Ate My Ontology

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For Postmodernism the cyborg seemed to represent a lot of what was being discussed. One of the reasons was that the cyborg, according to Don...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Time and Object-Centered Rhetoric

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In perhaps a more rhetorical question, Larval Subjects in his most recent post asks his readers, “What is time?” He points to the seeming p...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Rats + Hegel = Surrealism

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Since the title of this post starts with “rats” I feel the need to do so as well. If we were to look at a rat's behavior, we might consi...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Meaning, Being, and Event (E)

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In recently rereading the introduction to Being and Time , and having recently read Kevin J. Porter's Meaning, Language, and Time: Towar...
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Nathan Gale
This is the blog of Nathan A. Gale, a PhD student in Rhetoric and Literary Theory. As you can tell I love anything that deals with the uncanny.
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