Brandon Avery JoycePlate 2: Six Flags, Music, Bodies, and Machines.From Earth’s lower orbit, rollercoasters probably resemble war-machines: red and yellow catapults hurling and terrorizing human bodies, not…7 min read·Sep 19, 2023----
Brandon Avery JoyceNotes for “QUESTIONS of POWER” (6), Infinite Plasticity, Time, Space, and Alien DynamicsThe British humanist-pragmatist F.C.S Schiller was quoted by William James as saying that “The world is essentially _______, it is what we…13 min read·Sep 5, 2023----
Brandon Avery JoyceNotes on “Questions of Power” (5), the Ontology of Mechanism, Time, and Rhythm.The crux of Aristotle’s Metaphysics is the relation of being and change. In the first parts, he treats us to some choice cliffnotes on how…16 min read·Aug 30, 2023----
Brandon Avery JoyceNotes on “Questions of Power” (4), the Investigator.A WINTER’ S TALE:14 min read·Aug 11, 2023----
Brandon Avery JoyceNotes on “QUESTIONS of POWER” (3), Modes and Configurations.The categorical conception of power covers both the everyday, efficacious, empowering, productive forms, on the one hand, and the…7 min read·Jul 24, 2023----
Brandon Avery JoycePlate 1: Rube Goldberg’s “Idea for Dodging Bill Collectors.”Above is a cartoon by Rube Goldberg entitled “Idea for Dodging Bill Collectors.” The caption runs: “Professor Butts mistakes a lot of…3 min read·Jul 17, 2023--1--1
Brandon Avery JoyceNotes on “Questions of Power” (2), the Science of Accidents.The first section began with the somewhat gnomic phrase that power neither is, as a rejection of ontology, nor is not, as a rejection of…14 min read·Jul 14, 2023--1--1
Brandon Avery JoyceNotes for “Questions of Power” (1)Power neither is nor is not. Instead, power is what makes and unmakes our world, or to put it more comprehensively, whatsoever makes and…7 min read·Jul 5, 2023----
Brandon Avery JoyceAnti-Earth, 2023Gibbon claimed that Christianity helped bring about the fragmentation and decline of Rome. But let’s flip this around: to what degree did…3 min read·Jan 20, 2023----
Brandon Avery JoyceBackhanded praise for Holmes, SBF, et al.I, for one, would like to thank Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Bankman-Fried for their service. These two are no heroes, but they may have been…5 min read·Dec 23, 2022----