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Wednesday, May 08, 2002
 

How a Frenchman goes about describing a commonplace book:

Such is the objective of the hypomnemata: to make of the recollection of the fragmentary logos transmitted by teaching, listening, or reading a means to establish as adequate and as perfect a relationship of oneself to oneself as possible.  Foucault on Hypomnemata


8:13:03 AM    

No epiphany for Ms. Jolie

Click on Angelina Jolie for a Hollywood tale that speaks a volume or two about the nature of CONTENT - a topic that's been on the minds of Halley Suitt and David Weinberger recently.

joli:

The entire Intellectual Property scam being perpetrated by the entertainment industry is here in a nutshell. It is the story of the worker alienated from the soul of his work - oft told by Marx and others - in modern dress. One resonant line:

''There's no epiphany when she realizes how empty her life has become.''

Thanks to Tony Urgo for noticing the story, which he says is ''as common as the cold.''


7:14:41 AM    



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