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 that […]
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 to […]
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: “It’s […]