Ray Wu's Blog

AI takes away the expressions of self expression that are generally associated with freedom; atrophy of human thought It’s less likely that we will all fall prey to an AI overlord that exerts power over all mankind. But the medium quality models might replace human abilities, decrease critical thinking, lower education, and more slop amongst […]

https://uberfritz.blogspot.com/2011/08/whip-pic.html Lou Salomé: Studied under Freud, the only person allowed to psychoanalyze Freud’s daughter/ showed the picture at various social gatherings, and cultivated a certain image of herself Two bedrooms and a living room: Talk philosophy in the living room Nietzsche proposes twice to Lou Salomé and is rejected. Moves on with Paul Rée.   Objections, […]

The slaveholder himself, the daily robber of his equal brother, discourses eloquently as to the excellency of justice, and the man who employs a brutal driver to flay the flesh of his negroes, is not offended when kindness and humanity are commended. In conclusion, I have taken a sober view of the present anti-slavery movement. […]

Standing there, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this Fourth of July. There are seventy-two crimes in the state of Virginia, which, if committed by a black […]

that we Coloured People of these United States, are, the most wretched, degraded and abject set of beings that over lived since the world began, down to the present day, and, that, the white Christians of America, who hold us in slavery, (or, more properly speaking, pretenders to Christianity,) treat us more cruel and barbarous […]

Written: Lecture given in 1946 Source: Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre, ed. Walter Kaufman, Meridian Publishing Company, 1989; First Published: World Publishing Company in 1956; Translator: Philip Mairet; Copyright: reproduced under the “Fair Use” provisions; HTML Markup: by Andy Blunden 1998; proofed and corrected February 2005. My purpose here is to offer a defence of existentialism against several reproaches that have been laid […]

In reading Rousseau’s Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, I was struck less by the content of his critique and more by the way he writes. Rousseau argues that the sciences corrupt virtue, yet he delivers this claim in a highly crafted, eloquent style that openly contradicts his stated suspicion of refinement. Instead of resolving […]

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1940s-50s: Film Noir -> fatalism, memory, and moral uncertainty 60-70s: Modernism -> waiting, existential drift, architecture as stage 90s-2020s: Global modernity -> loneliness, migration, identity suspension   theoretical synthesis Sobchack – phenomenology of film experience Herman – Narrative as worldmaking (cognitive narratology) Palmer – temporal contingency and spatial discontinuity Mulvey – gaze and desire within […]

Flesh and spirit are defined spiritual realm (God’s Kingdom) rules over the temporal realm (earth) Limit of secular authority christian obedience and service Heresy is spiritual and physical 1517: Luther challenges the Church’s claim to control salvation 1522: Epistle of St. Paul, defines salvation 1523: Concerning governmental authority: spiritual realm and temporal realm 1525: Peasants […]