iPod and Philosophy
iCon of an ePoch
Edited by D. E. Wittkower
Open Court, Popular Culture and Philosophy, 2008
Playlist: Object
1 Wittgenstein's iPod, or, The Familiar among Us
Ari Rehn
The Familiar Familiar
p 12
"Many words... don't have a strict meaning.
But this not a defect.
To think it would be like saying that the light of
my reading lamp is no real light at all because it has no sharp boundary."
Wittgenstein, The Blue and Brown Books (Harper and Row, 1965)
Playlist: Thought
Today's Cheaters, Tomorrow's Visionaries
Daniel Sturgis
"Traditional" Distance Learning
p 73
One online student said that he found
that students were sometimes asking the very question he had on his mind.
As Socratic lecturers know, this is no accident.
Playlist: Image
18 iCon of a Generation
Andrew Hickey
p 115
Baudrillard:
Simulation is no longer that of a territory,
a referential being, or a substance.
It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality:
a hyperreal.
The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it.
(Simulacra and Simulation,
University of Michigan Press, 1994 , p 1)
Playlist: Community
13 Don't Talk to Me
Joseph C. Pitt
p 161
The sound of the human voice is a joy and it brings joy.
The iPod, however, has managed to do what even Big Brother could not do:
silence that voice.
Playlist: Action
19 The Rhodesian Stranger
Socrates, Phaedrus, and Stranger
p 231
- STRANGER:
- Wait—I read those words of his,
which he wrote because they were meaningful to him,
and I remembered because I also thought they were mean important,
and repeated them to you,
and you too, seem to think that they have value.
Didn't those words, then teach us something?
p 232
- STRANGER:
- Yeah, okay. Fine.
- PHAEDRUS:
- Boy, you sure walked right into that one!
- STRANGER:
- Shut up, Phaedrus.
p 235
From that point forward, whenever one of them opened their mouths to speak,
he would find in his mouth, instead of a word, only a small shrivelled pea;
or instead of a speech, a pod full of these peas.
Philosophy
Marc Girod