An Un-canny Ontology

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

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

CFP - Material Cultures

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This looks interesting : Call for Papers - 2011 Canadian Literature Symposium (May 6-8, 2011) Material Cultures May 6-8, 2011 Department ...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

On "Smuk is King"

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I’ve just finished reading Adam Reed’s “Smuk is King”, which describes the role of tobacco and cigarettes in a prison in Papua New Guinea. W...
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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Rhetorical Scene and Onticology

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Over at Larvalsubjects Levi has posted a couple of responses to my initial thoughts on what an OOR pentad might look like with regards to ...
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Friday, July 30, 2010

Rhetorical Purpose and Onticology (cont.)

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I realized that my last post might be read as if I see the receiving object as having the choice to translate however it wants. This is not ...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Rhetorical Purpose and Onticology

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First off, I want to apologize for the length of the following. What started as a short post of ideas quickly developed into a mini essay. B...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

The Object Formerly Known as Gravity

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Here is a recent NY Times article describing Erik Verlinde's argument that gravity is in fact a consequence "of the venerable law...
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Saturday, June 12, 2010

OOR Beginnings

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Jim Brown has a post up summarizing the OOR panel at RSA that I (somewhat) promised to discuss here. Since I’ve been ridiculously busy sinc...
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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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