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This starts with reading J. N. Nielsen's various posts on various platforms. I've been reading them mostly via substack. The readings have been leaking through and require acknowlegement. This particular post is in regard to the word world and it relation to time as mentioned in J. N. Nielsen's Al-Ghazali’s Spiritual Crisis (Philosophical Side Quests: Philosophers of the Islamic Golden…

These Worlds of Worlds posts wander through some uses of the word world. Each use can be a world of its own. But just as the world is home for all our homes, it is also the home for all worlds, even if these worlds-of-their-own, these ‘epistemic enclaves’ as J.N. Nielsen calls them, can see and or seek no others…

In At home in the world I put down how I got to by thinking about ‘home’ and the relationship to/with 'world'. And in writing that decided to separate out the thoughts about home/world and it relationship, in my head at least, with country and country/city, and empire. I cover part of that at Worldbuilding 101. But here are the…

The other day — in a library — I briefly looked at a book. And thought, ‘another one I’ll not have time to read.’ But I gave it a quick peruse. John S. Allen’s Home: How Habitat Made Us Human is a science essay book which goes over common ground to reframe some assumptions or two that we have in…

A large part of my response to the question ¿what is the ethical response to morality? is that we have an moral urge, if not an instinct, to world-build, which in English we can also phrase as as why we should. The details do not matter so much, until we go off worldbuilding ourselves, as much as that we actually should should about something,…

In February 2024 in Writing good out of me worlds better than the old fool's selfie I left off with an enigmatic: And Julia Kristeva’s Lacanist worlding? I may leave that for another day with the cheap remark that it is not engrams all the way down. No, they lie only between the fool and the world. So finally I…