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, November 3, 2010

Conversations with a Stone: An OO Reading

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Levi has a post up about the possibility of an OOLC (that’s Object-Oriented Literary Criticism for those who get lost in all of the acronym...
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Everything I Needed to Know about OOR I Learned from Watching 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'

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No matter how much we insist on the strangeness of our everyday objects, it is rather difficult for anybody (yours truly included) to see th...
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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Rhetorical Correlationism

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In Meaning, Language, and Time , Kevin J. Porter succinctly restates the three dominant factions of rhetoric as espoused by James Berlin. Th...
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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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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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