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Using Ghosts to Understand Telephone Wires: Folklore as Cultural Ontology
Careful readers will have noticed the tagline of this blog, a critical look at the stories we tell about ourselves. As with most good taglines, this immediately raises some questions. Who is we? What stories? What is thing called telling, Earth man? So the standard academic definition of folklore is going to be something along […]
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Where Did My Pen Go? A Brief Theory of How to Understand the Universe
A Brief Theory of How to Understand the Universe Let’s start with a truism. Those are always good. To live is to continually encounter the unknowable. And boy, that unknowable is everywhere. Every time we ask a question to which we practically cannot get a definitive answer, we are encountering the unknowable. The unknowable can include […]