Entries from June 2010
Jun. 2, 2010
The Way We Virtually Live Now
Nicholas Carr asks: What happens to the human self as it experiences more and more of the world through the mediation of the screen?
Tags: Nicholas Carr
Jun. 2, 2010
A Hangman’s Metaphysics
Nietzsche on free will and guilt.
Tags: Defending Jacob · free will · Nietzsche · philosophy
Jun. 1, 2010
The Pleasures of Imagination
Our main leisure activity is, by a long shot, participating in experiences that we know are not real. When we are free to do whatever we want, we retreat to the imagination — to worlds created by others, as with books, movies, video games, and television (over four hours a day for the average American), [...]
Tags: imagination · psychology
