"This is a wonderful book on one of the most puzzling problems of physics and philosophy: Does empty space have an existence independent of the matter within it? Einstein thought not. In his universe, there can be no space without matter; but quantum physicist Werner Heisenberg'…
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Emptiness and Christianity -- Emptiness within Christianity -- Return to emptiness -- The School of Things (Mono-ha) and its criticism of modernity -- The emergence of the School of Things and space design -- The School of Things and anti-semiotics -- The School of Tthings and n…
Emptiness and Christianity -- Emptiness within Christianity -- Return to emptiness -- The School of Things (Mono-ha) and its criticism of modernity -- The emergence of the School of Things and space design -- The School of Things and anti-semiotics -- The School of Tthings and n…
Based round an interview with Tadao Ando, this book explores the influence of the Buddhist concept of nothingness on Ando's Christian architecture, and sheds new light on the cultural significance of the buildings of one the world's leading contemporary architects.
Positive nihilism: my confrontation with Heidegger
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Positive nihilism: my confrontation with Heidegger
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Positive nihilism: my confrontation with Heidegger
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A German writer's aphoristic, poetic, and difficult reflections on Heidegger's Being and Time.
The dead are gone. They count for nothing. Yet, if we count the dead, their number is staggering. And they account for most of what is great about civilization. Compared to the greatness of the dead, the accomplishments of the living are paltry. Which is it then: are the dead st…
A successful attempt to provide a metaphysics of death must at the same time resolve the paradox of nonexistence--that there must be something ""there"" that fails to exist. This is the aim of Palle Yourgrau's Death and Nonexistence, which provides an ontology of death, i.e. of …
All and nothing: a digital apocolypse
by Burckhardt, Martin, Höfer, Dirk
fromUntimely meditations (Series)
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All and nothing: a digital apocolypse
by Burckhardt, Martin, Höfer, Dirk
fromUntimely meditations (Series)
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Why 1 = presence and 0 = absence and the digital world formula is x = x n: an exploration of meaning in a universe of infinite replication.In the beginning was the Zero, and the Zero was with God, and God was the One. -- All and NothingIn 1854, the British mathematician George B…