Tag: meaning

• Fragmentary, No. 25

  The moderns confused products with processes. They believed that the production of bureaucratic rationalization presupposed rational bureaucrats; that the production of universal science depended on universalist scientists; that the production of effective technologies led to the effectiveness of engineers; that the production of abstraction was itself abstract; that the production of formalism was itself formal.…

  • R L • powell

  November 21, 2018

  Books, Fragments, Reading

  abstraction, Bruno Latour, essentailism, formalism, history of science, meaning, Modernity, philosophy, philosophy of science, rationality, science, tautology, theory, We Have Never Been Modern

• Fragmentary, No. 24

  “The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. . . . Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.” ✧ F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

  • R L • powell

  November 20, 2018

  Books, Fragments, Reading

  consequence, emptiness, F. Scott Fitzgerald, gatekeepers, gateway, guard, guarding, meaning, nothing, shame, Tender is the Night

• Fragmentary, No. 12

  What is new is not that the world lacks meaning, or has little meaning, or less than it used to have; it is that we seem to feel an explicit and intense daily need to give it meaning: to give meaning to the world, not just some village or lineage. This need to give meaning…

  • R L • powell

  November 16, 2016

  Fragments, Impensive, Reading

  Agué, contemporary life, information, information overload, meaning, supermodernity, the modern