Monthly Archives: October 2005

Google Lawsuits

By Michael Becker | Published: October 20, 2005
CNN pub­lished an arti­cle yes­ter­day about a law­suit pend­ing against search engine Google. The search com­pany has been work­ing with great libraries around the world to dig­i­tize their col­lec­tions, essen­tially to scan the pages of every book in those libraries. This includes both pub­lic domain books and copy­righted books. The law­suit was filed by pub­lish­ing houses [...]
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Trickster and Derrida

By Michael Becker | Published: October 5, 2005
In the pref­ace to Pharmacia, Derrida sug­gests that lan­guage is a game. The object of language’s game is to hide its true mean­ing from those who seek to inter­pret it and espe­cially from those who would seek to pin lan­guage down and load it with con­crete meaning. Language is like jello, if I can adapt Derrida [...]
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Verse

By Michael Becker | Published: October 3, 2005
The Conundrum of the Workshops By Rudyard Kipling WHEN the flush of a new­born sun fell first on Eden’s green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mold; And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whis­pered behind the leaves: [...]
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