tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post5459774383758885487..comments2023-11-05T07:27:43.837-05:00Comments on Narrative and Technology: Sometimes, they think the owl is saying "who?" (graded blog)Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post-67142276964121306502007-11-15T23:34:00.000-05:002007-11-15T23:34:00.000-05:00The amount of relavant information you have for ev...The amount of relavant information you have for every topic we encounter amazes me. <BR/><BR/><BR/>KudosYomihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986951120275903878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post-15072413482973262122007-11-14T08:35:00.000-05:002007-11-14T08:35:00.000-05:00That's the great thing about this book. You can r...That's the great thing about this book. You can read it 4 or 8 times, and there are still things - like this - which, when examined in detail, change everything around. Again.<BR/><BR/>Perversely, all of this discussion of animals and nothingness connects to Derrida (who James was talking about last time) -- Derrida is interested in animals and in nothingness and, sometimes, I think, in both at the same time. So Rilke's Black Cat relates to Derrida as well as to Poe in the context of this book.<BR/><BR/>So monsters (which are also cyborgs, that is, mixtures of animal-human-machine (and maybe God), I'd argue, following Haraway) are people, and animals are nothing, except also the house itself (which is very Derrida).<BR/><BR/>Kind of.<BR/><BR/>Very nice.Adam Johnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11588769281227456640noreply@blogger.com