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for Sartre, there is no human nature. We must always be imagining and reimagining who we are, which is to say we are always in the process of becoming. For Beauvoir, becoming was a creative enterprise, a work of art.
What Hannah Arendt Proposed as an Alternative to Authenticity | Aeon Essays
aeon.co
I analyze The Times’ newsmaking practice as one that aimed less to garner the attention of a certain public than to generate what I follow Michael Warner (2002) in describing as a certain kind of publicness. Warner points out that __media texts constitute their publics not by actually garnering the attention of a particular group of readers, but simply by addressing themselves to a public and thereby creating the possibility of their garnering this public’s attention.__ I look at how The Times’ journalists produced and published many news articles that in their own opinion were unlikely to be read by many actual news readers but which nevertheless served to create this possibility—or to generate this sense of their news platform’s publicness on which its survival as a business depended.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
Imagine you put a GPS tracker on a dog, then you set him free to run in the countryside.
He dashes.
He digs.
He stops to sniff.
He romps with another dog.
Later, when you map his recorded GPS data, you see that he generally went north-east.
But would you say that going north-east is his passion and purpose?
You are like the dog.
Don’t seek a story of purpose to guide or label your fascinations.
An Interview With Marc Andreessen About AI and How You Change the World
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