My Contribution to the Speculative Heresy/The Inhumanities Cross-Blog Event — This week and next, Speculative Heresy and The Inhumanities are running a series on speculative realism and ethics, responses addressing the following question: “While..
Topics: philosophy, writing

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A note from my critics — I have many critics. Critics are helpful, wonderful creatures who produce as much pleasure as ire, partly because they provide amusement as often as commentary. Normally I don't respond to the more vocally invective...
Topics: blog, cynicism, philosophy

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New in-browser emulators for classic Atari games — Atari has been through a lot as a company. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded it in 1972. They sold it to Warner Communication in 1976. Ray Kassar ran it through the crash of 1983, after which...
Topics: Atari, blog

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Blog Series on Ethics and Ontology — A couple months back, Speculative Heresy and The Inhumanities announced a cross-blog event for which they invited short but substantive pieces to answer the following question: “While speculative realism has...
Topics: blog, philosophy

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A Billionaire's Blight — Am I missing something here? Oprah, who has a net worth of roughly $2.5 billion and can do whatever she wants, is crying and soul searching because she is ending her talk show so that she can restart it on her own...
Topics: blog, cynicism, television

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