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The Ontology of LoveWhat is this thing, love, that it binds two creatures to each other in life and in death? More fundamentally, what is being-in-love, and how is it related to being-in-the-world?
The Hermeneutics of Samurai Culture in Film and TelevisionBefore my first boxing match I read Hagakure. Reading it again through Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Mishima, Jarmusch and Samurai Champloo, I find in the samurai ideal a modern invention and a masculine death drive, and in the best films its undoing.
Kwaidan: Strange Tales of Nature and WarMasaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan is usually filed under horror. Seen on a big screen, its four ghost stories read better as mysteries: about a nature full of spirits, and about the dead of a lost war.
The Virtue of FrictionSome friction only wastes our time, and some is how understanding is built and how hard work becomes absorbing. On learning, skill and flow when a machine can do the work.
The Philosophy of BoxingWhy would anyone choose to be hit in the head? Freud's death drive, Musashi's sword after the wars, and what boxing taught me about discipline, fear and flow.
Reflection on my First Boxing Bout - A Warrior's JourneyWhat I learned from losing my first boxing match: sacrifice, the question of why, a sunrise on a trail, and fighting as a spiritual practice.
Jim Simons, A TributeA tribute to Jim Simons, mathematician, codebreaker, investor and patron of science, and an inspiration of mine: on beauty, usefulness and what wealth can do for curiosity.
Coffee Shop ReflectionsWhy I work best among strangers in a coffee shop, and whether the Paris café of Hemingway and the existentialists is a tradition or a fantasy sold by the cup.
The Hermeneutics of Samurai Culture in Film and TelevisionBefore my first boxing match I read Hagakure. Reading it again through Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Mishima, Jarmusch and Samurai Champloo, I find in the samurai ideal a modern invention and a masculine death drive, and in the best films its undoing.
Kwaidan: Strange Tales of Nature and WarMasaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan is usually filed under horror. Seen on a big screen, its four ghost stories read better as mysteries: about a nature full of spirits, and about the dead of a lost war.
The Virtue of FrictionSome friction only wastes our time, and some is how understanding is built and how hard work becomes absorbing. On learning, skill and flow when a machine can do the work.
The Philosophy of BoxingWhy would anyone choose to be hit in the head? Freud's death drive, Musashi's sword after the wars, and what boxing taught me about discipline, fear and flow.
Reflection on my First Boxing Bout - A Warrior's JourneyWhat I learned from losing my first boxing match: sacrifice, the question of why, a sunrise on a trail, and fighting as a spiritual practice.
Jim Simons, A TributeA tribute to Jim Simons, mathematician, codebreaker, investor and patron of science, and an inspiration of mine: on beauty, usefulness and what wealth can do for curiosity.
Coffee Shop ReflectionsWhy I work best among strangers in a coffee shop, and whether the Paris café of Hemingway and the existentialists is a tradition or a fantasy sold by the cup.