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  • Neuromancer W. Gibson (TRM’s hilites)

    Neuromancer                     William Gibson Velcro Christian Science precis Straylite  Wintermute Tessier-Ashpool Akai The Hosaka Bell Europa Angara Podhamennaya Screaming Fist Corto Nightwing Mole IX cybernetics Virus Cabal Heroin Thailand Killer Bonn Wichita bankroller Schizophrenia Fantan Zhonshen Beyoglu Shinjuku suit Fener Sanyo Sultan Hatice 1660 Yeheyuans Seraglio Turing heat Trenchcoat Porsche glasses Space-station ganga Bon bon .357…

  • Ritual Art and Knowledge (TRM’s high-lites) by Williams and Boyd

    Ritual Art and Knowledge                                R. Williams and W. Boyd Preface noetic Theories of metaphor Theodore Jennings – a difference of analysis Dastur Dr. Firoze M. Kotwal Zoroaster Yasna Avesta Chapter I  a) Art and Ritual Albert Camus: art as an instrument…

  • Greek Mythology (lineage)

    Greek Mythology    (lineage)  Cronos Son of Uranus – Ruler of the Universe Cronos’s Mother: Gaia Gaia’s Children included: Youngest: (hundred-handed) Hecatonchires and (one-eyed) Cyclopes, Uranus imprisons these two in Tartarus Gaia angered asks her other children to step forth and kill Uranus Cronos dutifully accepts the task Cronos castrates father Uranus and throws his testicles into…

  • Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann (TRM’s highlights)

    Doctor Faustus       by Thomas Mann The late Adrian Leverkuhn A musical genius In Freisburg on the Isar, 23 May, 1943, two years after Leverkuhn’s death – from the depths of night to deeper night. Viola d’ampore Descendant of the German humanists associated with ‘Letters of Obscure Men’, an heir to Reuchlin, Crotus of Dornheim, Mutianus,…

  • Being and Time by Martin Heidegger (TRM’s notes)

    Being and Time                                                                         Martin Heidegger Foreword Perhaps the most celebrated philosophical work which Germany has produced in this century. one of the most important philosophical works of modern times. No other [twentieth century] text, besides the possible exception of Wittgenstein’s ‘Philosophical Investigations’ has exerted such a profound and enduring influence on the way philosophy is…

  • W.V.O. Quine’s ‘Elementary Symbolic Logic’ (TRM’s hi-lites)

    Elementary Logic                                        W.V.O. Quine   Revised edition Preface , 1980 ‘Mathematical Logic’ ‘Elementary Logic’, 1940 ‘Methods of Logic’ Godel Quantification theory admits of a complete proof procedure Boston, March 1980 Preface to Revised Edition Minimum essentials ‘Methods of Logic’ Skolem and Herbrand Testing procedure Proof technique Modernization of terminology Cantor Hilbert and Bernays Harvard, Massachusetts,…

  • Russell’s History of Western Philosophy – Book Three: Modern Philosophy (TRM hi-lites)

    Book Three – Modern Philosophy      General characteristics –          diminishing authority of Church –          increasing influence of Science –          National States –          kings, democracies or tyrants –          American and French Revolutions –          Socialism 1917 –          more lay than clerical –          commerce…

  • Michael Inwood’s Commentary for Hegel’s ‘Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics’ (TRM’s notes)

    Commentary on Hegel’s ‘Introductory Lectures on  Aesthetics’                            Michael Inwood Commentary –         The Latine Aesthetica –         German as Asthetik –         A.G. Baumgarten (1714-62) in ‘Metaphysica’ and ‘Aesthetica’ (1750) from the Greek aisthanaesthai: ‘to perceive’ –         Crafts and to the seven liberal arts of…

  • Hegel’s “Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics” (TRM’s notes)

    Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics                                   by Hegel Introduction                                             by Michael Inwood Art in Hegel’s Germany –         Stuttgart –         Johann…

  • “The Origin of the Work of Art’ Martin Heidegger (TRM’s notes)

              ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’                     Heidegger “Only image formed keeps the vision – Yet image formed rests in the poem.” Introduction –         As Marleau-Ponty does of Cezanne –         Truth as ‘aletheia’ or unconcealment –         When Heidegger examines and describes Van Gogh’s painting of some (peasant?) shoes –         Friedrich…