Archive - Raids on the Unspeakable

Movement and determinism

> The moment man stops and resigns himself, he becomes subject to determinism. He is most enslaved when he thinks he is comfortably settled in…

Sep 9, 2024 •

July 2024

> Such contacts evolve their own texture; a tactile sensation is a blind spot; we touch in silhouette.

Jul 2, 2024 •

June 2024

Contradiction and tension in the Tao te Ching

Preparatory notes for the question of eternal life.

Jun 15, 2024 •

March 2024

Further reflections on mathematics

> If the thing in question be created, the definition must (as we have said) comprehend the proximate cause.

Mar 30, 2024 •

February 2024

On the origins of mathematics

> They seem rather to form a second plane or level of reality, which confronts us just as objectively and independently of our thinking as nature.

Feb 1, 2024 •

December 2023

November 2023

The inventor shop

> It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being…

Nov 4, 2023 •

September 2023

Creativity and the problem of the improbable

> The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any…

Sep 19, 2023 •

Attention as a thing which leaps

> … chickens, twenty, a hundred apples, if you can find nice ones, a hundred or two hundred eggs, if they are for sale there at a fair price … 8…

Sep 5, 2023 •

The hand in human history

> For according to that which is present to them doth thought increase in men.

Sep 1, 2023 •

August 2023

Compression and prediction as finite and infinite games

> Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work.

Aug 27, 2023 •

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