Up until yesterday, I’d never seen that Palais before.
It’s really quite interesting that I can still stumble upon new stuff in the Inner City of Vienna, after more than five years of living here.
Goes to show how much of a rover I am.
Monthly Archive for May, 2006
So I did forget to make you aware of the new park pictures I shot last Saturday. Thus, without further ado, enjoy .
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In the course of some research I stumbled upon this quote by Heidegger, which somehow explains why that one text of his I’m currently reading doesn’t make that much sense:
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
Isn’t this just wonderful? Sentences like this one:
Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has always already surrendered itself, in its being-among-one-another.
suddenly make sense, because I now know that their sense is to not really make sense.
Which reminds me of that sentence:
In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.
Which, if I’ve understood that correctly, is my cue to shut up.
I just watched a science show that had a segment on Gödel, Austrian mathemagician, whose work today is considered as the basis for von Neumann’s and Turing’s work, thus he’s the one who made all this computer greatness we’re using each and every day possible. His 100th birthday would have been a few das ago, so there are a whole bunch of festivities and exhibitions going on at the moment. The most prominent one is hosted by the main library of the University of Vienna, but there’s also quite a good online-exhibition.
You also might want to check out the amazing book by Douglas R. Hofstadter, “Gödel, Escher, Bach”, which explores the similarities of the works of these three.
Now, the real reason I’m writing about all this, because undoubtedly some of you may be questioning my sanity, considering that I’ve always been mathematic’s greatest foe, is that during that segment they were playing Tool’s song “Triad” from their album “Lateralus”.
Which fits in nicely with my “Tool Appreciation Week”, a festivity I’ve just made up in order to justify yet another posting in which I’m talking about Tool.
Now there’s an anti-climax for you.
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