Sundial Archive: Intellectual Clash
Where Did The Intellectual Clash Go?Contemporary Civilization’s syllabus has lost the diversity of intellectual opinion that once characterized the Core’s first class.Nick Chimicles Sep 01, 2024 https://www.sundial-cu.org/p/where-did-the-intellectual-clash/comments (Jonas Du/Columbia Sundial) A professor of mine once remarked that if Contemporary Civilization were proposed anew today, it would face instant rejection. It’s an awfully cynical statement. What could make a class so contentious th...
Sundial Archive: Intellectual Clash
Where Did The Intellectual Clash Go?Contemporary Civilization’s syllabus has lost the diversity of intellectual opinion that once characterized the Core’s first class.Nick Chimicles Sep 01, 2024 https://www.sundial-cu.org/p/where-did-the-intellectual-clash/comments (Jonas Du/Columbia Sundial) A professor of mine once remarked that if Contemporary Civilization were proposed anew today, it would face instant rejection. It’s an awfully cynical statement. What could make a class so contentious th...
Learning via Semantic Tree
For a while I’ve thought the linear form of information ingestion we experience today and have experienced for a long time (from the papyrus scroll to the webpage) is somewhat outdated. Information in the form of chunks of text stacked on top of each other may be easily human-readable, but this form does not contain the relations among the information besides the order in which they appear. Thus information as it is presented in any given article or book is preserved simply as an array of par...
Learning via Semantic Tree
For a while I’ve thought the linear form of information ingestion we experience today and have experienced for a long time (from the papyrus scroll to the webpage) is somewhat outdated. Information in the form of chunks of text stacked on top of each other may be easily human-readable, but this form does not contain the relations among the information besides the order in which they appear. Thus information as it is presented in any given article or book is preserved simply as an array of par...
An Empirical Method for Analyzing Primary Sources on Alexander the Great
IntroductionThe study of Alexander the Great has long been dominated by close reading and interpretation of primary sources. While these methods remain invaluable, I sought to create a method of analyzing these sources from an empirical basis and in aggregate. Below I present a novel pipeline for processing and searching key historical texts on Alexander, enabling researchers to uncover semantic relationships and patterns across multiple sources simultaneously.MethodologyThe pipeline incorpor...
An Empirical Method for Analyzing Primary Sources on Alexander the Great
IntroductionThe study of Alexander the Great has long been dominated by close reading and interpretation of primary sources. While these methods remain invaluable, I sought to create a method of analyzing these sources from an empirical basis and in aggregate. Below I present a novel pipeline for processing and searching key historical texts on Alexander, enabling researchers to uncover semantic relationships and patterns across multiple sources simultaneously.MethodologyThe pipeline incorpor...
On Pain by Ernst Jünger: a Discussion
This is the first of a series of weekly book reviews that I will be doing as part of my goal of reading a book a week. In order to ground my thoughts in the text, I will be going through the passages I picked out as especially noteworthy and annotate them with my thoughts.There are several great and unalterable dimensions that show a man's stature. Pain is one of them. It is the most difficult in a series of trials one is accustomed to call life. An examination dealing with pain is no do...
On Pain by Ernst Jünger: a Discussion
This is the first of a series of weekly book reviews that I will be doing as part of my goal of reading a book a week. In order to ground my thoughts in the text, I will be going through the passages I picked out as especially noteworthy and annotate them with my thoughts.There are several great and unalterable dimensions that show a man's stature. Pain is one of them. It is the most difficult in a series of trials one is accustomed to call life. An examination dealing with pain is no do...
Is Post-Modernism e/acc?
This is part of a new series in which I am attempting to provide the e/acc movement with a more philosophical and historical foundation.Short answer: no (in fact they’re antithetical), but without post-modernism there would be no e/acc.So I was watching this debate between a bunch of cigarettes smoking philosophers from 1981 when post Post Modernism was just starting to turn from a real niche group into something a bit more mainstream. Back when postmodernism was cool. This one professor, Gay...
Is Post-Modernism e/acc?
This is part of a new series in which I am attempting to provide the e/acc movement with a more philosophical and historical foundation.Short answer: no (in fact they’re antithetical), but without post-modernism there would be no e/acc.So I was watching this debate between a bunch of cigarettes smoking philosophers from 1981 when post Post Modernism was just starting to turn from a real niche group into something a bit more mainstream. Back when postmodernism was cool. This one professor, Gay...
