Paul Boshears
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A Vehicle and an Art
ByThank you for your encouraging words! I embedded the trailer to the film adaptation primarily because I find the trailer to evoke the atmosphere of the novel. However, I've written the above based on what I encountered in the novel and I concede that ... -
Filial Piety Makes the World Go Round
ByThank you for these excellent provocations. I think the novel is successful because it is so blank and as such I don't know that I saw an explicit tension between these two orientations. The incident you mention is a fairly straightforward demonstrat ... -
Embracing Insufficiency
ByThanks for your kind words and consideration, Brandon. I should clarify that in my writing to this point I've been thinking about the novel and I've not seen the movie in several years. I don't know to what extent my thinking above would ch ... -
Sharing Before the Internet
ByThanks for emphasizing that social media sites like facebook and academia.edu are often near exploiting the people that use it. What seems to escape many users of these platforms is that by in large, these are frontier spaces where people are prospecting ... -
Gendering Things
ByThanks, Kris, for your kind words. Yes, I thank you for curating these lovely writings and clips, I feel like I'm in great company. You asked how I would address thingness in relation to or distinct from humanness and that is an excellent question. I ... -
a Confucian Rancière, a Daoist Bennet
ByPerhaps because of my background in Classical Chinese philosophies, I am inclined to defer when I am not sure how to proceed. Confucius would advocate that whenever we are in the engaged with another person, we are sure to find a teacher. But Confucius wo ... -
Struggling Against, Struggling With
ByI'm intrigued by your suggestion that there is a kind of power in the failure of (my words) dead tech. Today I am reading a nice post discussing the translation into Swedish and Dutch of Object-Oriented Ontology-type writings. This author, over at Co ... -
Appreciation Isn't Only Human
ByPhil Stearns' DCP series of photographs (FULL DISCLOSURE: I'm an editor of this publication) might be a great place to look for examples of an Aesthetic of Failure, in so far as they are images created through an exploration of digital camera gl ...